What would happen if you lived in a world where any sound you made could be your last? The only way to survive is to stay quiet. “A Quiet Place” tells the story of the Abbott family who is living a nightmare. When the world went quiet, they built a life with danger all around them, creatures stalk the day and night waiting for one to make a should They only way to communicate is the sign language they knew because of their deaf daughter.
The movie brings a new type of horror to the screen, a silent horror where the entire audience is aware of every little sound that is made while watching the film. The crunch of popcorn echoes through the seats. People slurp their drinks aware that even that small sound could bring certain death if they lived in the Abbott’s world. The silence in the theater becomes overwhelming sometimes, but at the moments when it almost becomes too much the movie blares a loud screeching ungodly noise from the creatures that hunt them.
The lack of sound makes someone hyper-aware of a sense that they never thought too much about before, hearing. Something most of us take for-granted is tested in this horror film. This film tests the limits of how noise and sound make horror films affective and how sound actually is so important to human life.
Tension builds throughout the film and it affects the viewers in a way that horror films aim to do. The film makes you invested in the story and aware of how sound even in the theater seems to affect what happens in the film. The family becomes your family and every time danger is near you fear for them and their safety. This film captures your attention from the very beginning even without the use of normal conversation.
The creatures that have taken over the world can only hunt by sound, they rely on beings missteps, human and animal alike.
“A Quiet Place” is an amazing horror film that audiences get invested in. Opening weekend the film brought in more than $50 million across the nation according to Box Office Mojo. The film and it’s success shows how a horror film should be portrayed by using the most basic human senses against viewers.