A Quiet Place film review Chris Hembury
A Quiet Place ****
Real life Couple Emily Blunt and John
Korsinski, who also writes and Directs star in the quietest horrors
you’ll see all year… A Quiet Place.
In the not so distant
future the world has been overrun by monsters that use noise to hunt and
kill. In the midst of this nightmarish world a family are trying to
survive.
That’s basically the
story, there’s no overruling goal or MacGuffin it’s gently paced mature
Horror that works harder than most others in the genre to deliver this
fresh narrative spin. Not unlike Don’t Breathe where teenagers had to
evade a blind killer here it’s a filmmaking experiment of making noise
scary and it works.
In a world that any noise could mean your
sudden gruesome death you know A Quiet Place
may be a quiet film but
that’s trick the silence is almost intermittently erupted into a
multitude of jump scares that keep things from getting dull. The jump
scare tradition has become a bit of a Hollywood reliance where as here I
think the film could have got away without based on the strong script.
The script (which nearly joined the Cloverfield universe apparently in
it’s original pitch) was also co written by Krasinski it keeps things
tight and has some nice horror moments and a very good third act ties
things up. The attention to detail with the monsters is also well done
as they are genuinely gruesome and not something you want meet in an
ally.
The film starts with a shock which sets the tone making it
apparent that anyone could be for monster lunch which keeps tensions
high. Potentially the three writers behind this may have social services
checking on them after watching the film as the children are really put
through the mill from word go from peril to peril. And with Emily
Blunt’s Character heavily pregnant a prime target there’s really no end
to the danger with the stakes high.
The story focuses on the
human survival element entirely with very little on the background of
the story in other films it works well but here it almost feels like a
loose end aside from the odd newspaper clippings we have don’t get much
information on the origins of the downfall of global society which seems
incredibly vague. It’s also bewildering to conceive with the might of
the world’s military technology that no one could make a good enough
attempt to stop these creatures. It actually never ever pops up in
conversation (Or should I say Sign language) what happened, how and
where the human is heading which with such a high concept back story
seems a little unrealistic.
These are little points within a
film that ultimately is a great success which brings freshness and
originality to the horror genre that should be celebrated and Krasinski
has done that here with gentile and precise direction showing his skill
behind the camera as well.
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