A Quiet Place: Near-silent horror thriller starring Emily Blunt about a family hiding out on a farm from aliens who are extremely sensitive to sound.
Plot and background
Silence is life! Not a word must be spoken, every move must be planned to avoid noise. After an alien invasion, most of humanity is wiped out. The Abbot family around father Lee (John Krasinski), mother Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and the children Regan (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus (Noah Jupe) and Beau (Cade Woodward) have managed to survive. It is the 89th day after the invasion – and everything is about to change.
A year later, the family lives in the buildings of an old farm. They have learned to communicate in sign language. The reason for this is not only the sound-sensitive aliens. In addition, the eldest daughter Regan is deaf. While mother Evelyn prepares for the birth of her youngest child and the painful labour pains, the family tries to survive without making a sound. For horror lurks in the woods around the farm.
“A Quiet Place” – Backgrounds
Actress Emily Blunt (“Girl on the Train”) and actor and director John Krasinski (“The Hollars – One Hell of a Family”) have been married to each other in real life for some time. Now the two have made a film in which they also play a couple on screen. The roles of the two children are played by Noah Jupe (“Suburbicon”) and Millicent Simmonds (“Wonderstruck”). The young actress Millicent Simmonds lost her hearing at the age of 12 months due to a drug overdose. John Krasinski directs and was also responsible for the screenplay of the idiosyncratic horror thriller.
“A Quiet Place” received an Oscar nomination in the Best Sound Editing category in 2019 for its extraordinary, neck-hair-raising sound atmosphere.
The horror film “A Quiet Place” has been given an FSK age rating of 16+.
