Silence is golden.

Rating: 7/10 (10 April 2018)

Hush, hush, my darling.. or the spider/Cloverfield monster hybrid will eat you. A Quiet Place is in line with Hollywood's sick new throwback to 1980's horror flicks. A time when gore wasn't the weapon of choice of freaking you out. A film, quite literally, full of jump scares. But only the good kind. You see, the characters of the film cannot talk. This young family needs to hide out in the woods and not make a single sound, lest they get eaten by the monster lurking in the shadows. This monster hates sounds. That is because every sound it hears, down to the last tick of a clock pierces through his hearing lobe at maximum volume. What an awful way to live. It's a chilling, nerve-wracking journey to stay alive and Krasinski has made the minimalist sci-fi horror flick of the year. Not to mention is Emily Blunt's silent performance that should hear the calls of golden statuettes later this year. It's a squirming good time. I made sure to finish my snack before the opening credits of the film, just to make sure I wasn't making any sounds myself.