Holy Cow. This Is The Face Of Classic Horror

Rating: 9/10 (6 May 2018)

Back in 1979 when I was eighteen years old, me and a buddy went to the theater to see a just released and trending sci-fi thriller entitled 'Alien'.
For years I always said that was the last film that really scared me.
What a refreshing surprise to know somebody can still pump out a genuine nail-biter after all that time.
'A Quiet Place' is set sometime in the not-to-distant future where whole towns stand abandoned and there's only a smattering of human beings left. What decimated the human race? Was it a nuclear war? Natural disaster? Unless I missed something, the story doesn't give us a clue.
What is left aside from a few humans are a species of absolutely terrifying predators that evidently can not see or smell, but hear. They literally have ears for eyes, and savagely hunt down and kill anything that makes so much as a peep.
Where did they come from? Are they aliens? An experimental species that escaped from a top secret government lab?
Again, we do not know.
They can run on all fours with the speed of a cheetah, and can rip their prey apart with the strength of a silver-back gorilla. You do NOT want to tangle with any of these buggers.
Trapped on a farm in an otherwise idyllic setting are a young family composed of Mom, Dad, and their three children. And a baby on the way.
Dad is a smart man, educated in farming as well as electronic engineering. He toils tirelessly away at the soil and spends countless hours sending out distress messages from a short-wave radio desperately trying to find other survivors.
Aside from that, they are 100% self-sufficient and want for nothing.
One clumsy accident in the house leads to another, and in no time all the lovely critters start showing up for dinner.
'A Quiet Place' had me squirming in my seat from start to finish. Extreme tension and bad surprises come fast and furious. Sheer terror is the order of the day.
There is a plot-hole here and there and a bit of bad science, but you won't care, believe me.
Many times I joke about a film being perhaps a little too intense for young children. This one is, and I'm not joking.
Have fun, y'all!