


A creature then appears, attacks Lee, and wounds him Marcus screams inside the truck, turning the creature's attention to them. Lee finds Regan and Marcus, and tells them to get in his truck and drive back to the house. The creature, in pain, runs off, breaking a hole in the silo. Regan squeezes her cochlear implant, making a high pitched noise. The creature in the basement runs towards the silo and attacks Regan and Marcus. Meanwhile, Evelyn wakes up in the flooded basement with the beast still inside she hides behind a waterfront as this creature moves towards her.Īfter getting into an argument, Marcus falls through the silo's roof, and Regan jumps in after him. Marcus and Regan go to the top of a silo and light a fire. This creature fails to find the source, but breaks some water pipes. The baby cries, alerting a creature into the basement. Lee then enters the house and brings the baby and Evelyn into the basement. Regan, seeing the fireworks, runs back to the house. Lee and Marcus, who are back from fishing, notice the red lights and set off fireworks to create a diversion. She begins giving birth in the bathtub upstairs as the creature slowly makes its way towards her.

Soon after, it enters the basement Evelyn sets an egg timer, distracting the creature and giving herself time to run upstairs. She tries to go upstairs but finds out that one of the creatures has entered the house. She flips a switch, turning the surrounding lights around the house red. While everybody is gone, Evelyn goes into labor while going downstairs, she steps on a nail and drops a photo frame, which alerts nearby creatures. Marcus reluctantly goes fishing with his dad while Regan, upset that she cannot go, visits Beau's grave. The noise alerts a nearby creature which stealthily jumps out of the forest and kills him.Īlmost a year after Beau's death, the family has seemingly gone back to normal, with Evelyn several months pregnant. While walking back home, Beau secretly triggers the toy space shuttle, which starts making noise. When they leave, Beau secretly takes back these batteries. As they are getting ready to leave, Regan secretly gives him back the toy, but without its batteries. When the family goes into town for supplies, Beau finds a toy space shuttle, which Lee makes him leave alone because it would make too much noise. They must take special precautions in order to make as little noise as possible, such as laying sand paths through the forest to avoid stepping on crunching leaves, and using American Sign Language when communicating. The Abbott family - mother Evelyn, father Lee, deaf daughter Regan, and sons Marcus and Beau - live on an isolated farm in the middle of the forest. Sightless aliens with sharp hearing take over the planet and kill most of the human population. The film was nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Blunt, which she won.Ī sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, was released on May 28, 2021, with Krasinski returning to the director's chair and the main cast also returning with the addition of Cillian Murphy. The film was described as a "smart, wickedly frightening good time" by Rotten Tomatoes, and chosen by both the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2018. It grossed more than $350 million worldwide and received critical acclaim. Filming took place in upstate New York from May to November 2017.Ī Quiet Place premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2018, and was released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Paramount Pictures. Krasinski and Blunt were cast in the lead roles in May 2017. In July 2016, Krasinski read their spec script and was hired to direct and rewrite the script in March the following year. The plot revolves around a father (Krasinski) and a mother ( Emily Blunt) who struggle to survive and rear their children ( Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe) in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind monsters with an acute sense of hearing.īeck and Woods began developing the story while in college. A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski and written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and Krasinski, from a story conceived by Woods and Beck.
