A Hitchcock-esque horror thriller

Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2018)

A few quick titles will come to your mind when you think about tense, cinematic achievements. Combine that with horror, you get films produced by classic filmmakers such as Hitchcock, Argento, Carpenter, and Craven. Krasinski has created such a masterpiece, that pulls together some very prevalent horror-esque themes to achieve a unbelievable amount of tension and suspense.
With the setting atmosphere rather cliched, the modern depiction of a dead, decaying world, the consequences of making 'sound' and the internal fight within the characters are shown in the starting 5 minutes. A perfect set up. Horror thrillers naturally drag on. A quiet place has no such scenes. The 95 minute thriller leaves no such gaps for the audience to rest on. And its biggest victory is on that front. To silence the cinema hall, to care for the characters, to make us bound to them are achieved by a rare number of horror films these days.
A quiet place takes on almost the same theme as 'It comes at night. Only, Krasinski did it better. The short screenplay, the limited amount of world building, the varying horror elements all seems like drawbacks but actually relieves the viewers of the conventional way of building horror movies. Emily Blunt produced a stand out performance, with all the cast providing the character support.
A quiet place is a rare, cinematic achievement. It does not depend upon the lead performances and stands on its own. But then again, it does achieve everything a horror film desires to achieve.