Horror buffs, rejoice!

Rating: 8/10 (10 April 2018)

Being a fan of the horror genre isn't always easy - we often settle for an imdb score of 5 - maybe 6 if we're lucky. Often, viewer scores are higher than critics' ratings because we're pretty grateful when a scary flick isn't entirely aweful.
A Quiet Place offers us one of those rare opportunities to be truly impressed - it's not just a good scary movie. It's a good movie. Screams usually come quickly and easily in horror films but they're so scarce in A Quiet Place, that we really feel each and every noise that comes out of the characters' mouths with anxious anticipation of the consequences that will follow.
Silence, as it turns out, can be terrifying. The characters live in fear of making noise - they're safety relies on navigating life under minimum sound and that's hard to achieve under any circumstances. They do have the advantage of being a family familiar with communicating in sign language, which may have played a significant role in their survival...but then a pregnancy is thrown into the mix and the sense of doom rises exponentially - even if the mother can pull off a silent birth, how will they silence a crying baby? It seems like the worst possible scenario for a family whose lives rely on their silence.
We know the creatures are blind but their lack of sight is made up for through their superior hearing - but everything has a weakness and their strength, we discover, might just be their downfall.