A Quiet Place: 8.7

Rating: 7/10 (12 April 2018)

A Quiet Place is a movie with few words, but it's loud. As the silence goes on it slingshots the volume of every creak and scratch in the movie upwards. All thanks to the genius premise. In today's horror movies monsters have become kind of dull. The simple change in senses to the monsters in A Quiet Place makes them a lingering omnipresence that stays with you the entire movie. No matter what scene you're watching you are tyrannically and desperately trying to control the sounds each character makes. No matter what emotion you feel or thought that you think, the monsters presence is always there. The opening of the movie introduces you to the next hour and twenty minutes that you'll have to experience, and it summarizes the entire experience of the movie in itself. That's what a good opening should do. Every sound heard in this movie finds it's way to the panic button in your brain. Even the slightest sounds hit you with a sliver of anxiety. The dynamic duo of John Krasinski and Emily Blunt elevate your desire to see their family survive, more so than if anyone else were in the Father and Mother roles. They are fantastic. The Father's relationship with his daughter is what drives the story, and the problems with their relationship are solved in a very emotive way. The Monsters design was very unsettling, it gives you the same sensations as eating food that doesn't sit in your stomach right. These creatures stick in your head even after the ending of the first movie you watch after watching A Quiet Place. The movie achieves the getting to it's spectacular ending without falling into the trap that Horror movies fall into. That being the trap of everybody in the story being a complete idiot only the story can move along. It successfully steers clear of even giving you thought of idiocy. The only trap this movie occasionally falls into is the few cliche jump-scare and fake-outs that every horror movie seems to have now. Also there's only one hiccup of logic that is unbelievable, and may take you out of the movie for a moment. Overall, A Quiet Place is a brisk Horror/Thriller that pushes all of the fear buttons, but doesn't tire you out by overstaying it's welcome, thanks to it's perfect runtime. So I give it an 8.7