Extremely Well-Made and Tense Horror Film

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 2018)

A Quiet Place (2018)
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
Set during the future where most humans have been killed off by mysterious creatures, parents Lee and Evelyn (John Krasinski, Emily Blunt) must try and defend their children and make sure they can survive. In their world everyone must stay quiet or else the creatures who are blind but have excellent hearing could get them.
Each and every year a new horror film is released and somehow word of mouth starts to get around that it's " the scariest movie ever made". The hype game on at least one horror movie a year is always very strong and to be honest very rarely does the movie live up to that sort of hype. A QUIET PLACE was 2018's horror movie that was hyped up by critics and fans. I must admit that I was shocked to see how wonderful the film was and that it actually lived up to all of the hype.
I'm certainly not going to call this one of the scariest movies ever made because it isn't. What the film does do is create a wonderful atmosphere and is so well-made that you can call it one of the best technical horror films ever made. I say that because the majority of the film is played in dead quiet since the characters can't talk or make any sort of sound. The way director John Krasinski manages to build up the suspense and know when to let the jump scare happen is something you'd expect to see from a filmmaker with more movies under his belt. Wes Craven always said that a director has to know when to go for the scare because if you let the tension go on too long the viewer will give up on it and you lose. That doesn't happen here as Krasinski handles the entire film perfectly.
Technically speaking the cinematography was wonderful, the use of music was perfect and I'd argue that the sound effects are some of the best and most important of any movie out there. I really loved the way that the director build this isolated world where these people have to live with a certain set of rules or else they'll die. This is certainly a survivor movie and a darn good one at that. I'm going to avoid spoilers but there's something that happens that cast some darkness over this family and it pays off extremely well as the film plays out.
The performances are also extremely good with both Blunt and Krasinski leading the way. The both of them have to do a lot of acting without talking so this is always challenging to an actor. The way both of them react with their eyes and body movements was perfectly done and both really delivered what the parts called for. Both Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe were very good in their roles and what really helped all four actors is that they really did seem like a real family.
A QUIET PLACE did have a flaw or two but they certainly didn't damage the movie too bad and it was mostly just a couple things that characters did. With that said, this is so well-made that one can't help but be impressed by what the writers and director pulled off. There's some great tension throughout and this is certainly one of the better horror movies in recent years.