A Quiet Place (2018) KILL COUNT

Zoran Gvojic

Mike Cygan

A Quiet Place (2018) KILL COUNT is the one hundred and thirtieth video of James A. Janisse's series, The Kill Count

## Overview

Sightless aliens with sharp hearing known as "Death Angels" take over the planet and kill most of the human population. The Abbott family: mother Evelyn, father Lee, daughter Reagan (who is deaf) and their two sons, Marcus and Beau Abbott live on an isated farm in the middle of the forest. They must take special precautions in order to avoid making noise, such as making sand paths through the forest to avoid stepping on crunching leaves. The family must use American Sign Language when communicating to avoid making noise. When the family goes into town for suppliesfinds a toy rocket, which his dad makes him put away because it would make too much noise. When they are getting ready to leave, Reagan secretly gives him back the toy. While walking back home, Beau presses a button on the toy rocket, which starts making noise. The noise alerts a nearby Death Angel who promptly jumps out of the forest and kills him.

A year after Beaus death, the family has seemingly gone back to normal. Evelyn is pregnant and Reagan and Marcus are cold towards Lee. While playing monopoly, Reagan accidentally knocks over a lamp, creating noise. Soon after, thumping noises are heard on the roof, but after Lee checks, the noise was from a raccoon is loud The next day, Marcus hesitantly goes fishing with his dad. Reagan, upset that she can’t go, visits Beaus grave.

While everybody is gone, Evelyn goes into labor, she goes downstairs and steps on a nail, loudly dropping a picture frame she was holding. She flips a switch, turning the surrounding lights around the house red. She tries to go upstairs but finds out that one of the Death Angels entered th house after hearing the noise. Soon after, the alien enters the basement, Evelyn sets an egg timer, distracting the Death Angel and giving her time to run upstairs. She begins giving birth in the bathtub upstairs as the creature slowly makes it way towards her.

Lee and Marcus, see the red lights and set off fireworks to create a diversion. Lee than enters the house and brings the baby and Evelyn into the basement, the baby begins crying, alerting a Death Angel into the basement. The Death Angels, confused, begins searching for the source of the noise, to no avail, and breaks the water pipes. Marcus and Reagan go to the top of a silo and light a fire. Meanwhile in the basement, Evelyn wakes up in the flooded basement with the Death Angel still inside, she hides behind a waterfront as a Death Angel moves towards her. After getting into an argument, Marcus falls through the silo and Reagan jumps after him. The Death Angel in the basement runs towards the silo and attacks Reagan and Marcus. Reagan squeezes her cochlear implant, making a high pitched noise. The Death Angel, in pain, runs off, breaking a hole in the silo.

Lee finds them and tells him to get in his truck and drive back to the house. A Death Angel then appears and attacks Lee, Marcus screams inside the truck, turning the Death Angel's attention to them. Lee, realizing that his children will die, signs to Reagan that “He has always loved her” and doesn’t blame Reagan for giving Beau the toy. He then screams loudly. The Death Angel then kills Lee, giving Reagan and Marcus time to drive back to the house.

Back at the house, the children are greeted by Evelyn, they embrace shortly, but then retreat to the basement after hearing a nearby Death Angel shriek. In the basement, Reagan sees that her dad was studying cochlear implants to help Reagan hear and cries. A Death Angel comes into the basement and Reagan tales of her cochlear implant and slams it on a guitar amp, knocking the Death Angel out. The Death Angel gets up again shortly and tries to attack them, but Evelyn shoots it in the head, killing it. The film ends with Marcus and the baby hiding in the corner of the basement, Reagan and Evelyn look on the security cameras and see two other Death Angel running towards the house, Evelyn looks at Reagan, smiles, and cocks her shotgun.

## Deaths

### Counted Deaths

1. Beau Abbott - Killed by a Death Angel - 10 mins in
2. Woman in Woods - Killed by a Death Angel (?) - 42 mins in
3. Man in Woods - Killed by a Death Angel - 43 mins in
4. Lee Abbott - Killed by a Death Angel - 1 hr 15 mins in