#A QUIET PLACE NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS MOVIE#
The movie drops us right into the middle a nightmare that we have at first have no understanding of, we are told it is “Day 89” but not what that signifies, and though this is clearly after some apocalyptic event we don’t know if it was caused by nuclear war, plague, monsters from another dimension or aliens. It’s in this area that A Quiet Place excels as one is truly on the edge of your seat for the majority of this film’s running time because we do care about this family and we want them all to survive. I’d say in 90% of horror films I could give a rat’s ass if most of the cast got stabbed or eaten (Did anyone not relish the moment when Hud was finally killed in Cloverfield?) and most slasher films only seem to care about the “Final Girl” so why should we the audience be worried or invested in any other character being killed. Now a key ingredient to a successful horror film is the building and creating of tension, as suspense is ratcheted up by whatever particular situation of horror our heroes find themselves in, something this film does better than most horror films I’ve seen lately, as many films forget that suspense is not created by the movie having a cool monster or a nasty killer but on the audience’s desire for the protagonist to survive. Aside from curl up in a ball and cry that is. “Who are we if we can’t protect our children?” This is a question put forward by Emily Blunt’s character in director John Krasinski’s horror film A Quiet Place, which deals with a lone family trying to survive in world now populated with monsters, and it makes us wonder what we would do in a similar situation.