6/24/2023 0 Comments A quiet place trailer![]() In pain, she accidentally drops a glass picture frame and alerts a nearby creature. While making her way to their specially modified soundproof basement, she steps on a large nail. ![]() Alone at the house, Evelyn goes into labor earlier than expected. Lee explains to Marcus that they will always be safe from the creatures so long as louder sounds mask their audible movements. Later, Lee takes Marcus to a nearby river to teach him to fish while Regan visits Beau's grave. Lee attempts to upgrade Regan's cochlear implant to restore her hearing, but the device fails. Its noise makes him an instant target for a nearby creature, and he is swiftly killed.Ī year later, Regan still struggles with guilt over her brother's death, Evelyn is in the final stages of pregnancy, and Lee is fruitlessly trying to make radio contact with the outside world. Beau activates the shuttle when the family is walking home through the woods, near a bridge. Regan returns the toy to Beau, who unbeknownst to her has also taken the batteries his father removed. Four-year-old Beau is drawn to a battery-operated space shuttle toy, but his father takes it away. While out in the open, the family communicates with American Sign Language. The Abbott family - husband Lee, wife Evelyn, deaf daughter Regan, and sons Marcus and Beau - silently scavenge for supplies in a deserted town. Most of Earth's human population has been wiped out by sightless creatures with hypersensitive hearing and a seemingly impenetrable armored shell that attack anything that makes noise. The movie lands in cinemas in March.Spoiler alert! Please do not read the following plot summary if you have not seen the film. Instead, the movie seems to be taking a page from The Walking Dead playbook, and delving into the philosophical questions and moral quandaries that arise when the Abbotts, outside the safe confines of family, are finally forced to confront the wider world.Ī Quiet Place Part II is directed by John Krasinski, and stars Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe, along with Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou. We’re not likely to see Evelyn Abbott, armed with a shotgun and chainsaw, go all Ash Williams on hordes of creatures. While Krasinski isn’t necessarily treading down a familiar path with his sequel, he isn’t escalating the action either. “The people that are left are not the kind of people worth saving,” says a jaded Murphy, setting up what looks to be the core conflict of the movie. Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou join the cast as human foils to the Abbott’s way of life, with the both of them providing a much darker take on where the human race goes from here. The now fatherless Abbott family having set out into the big bad world, hoping that there’s something left that’s worth saving. We’re then thrown back into the deathly silence of the first film. It reminds you that there are still stories here to be told. It reminds you that there is a larger world outside the Abbott farmstead. It is busy pulling your focus from one side of the screen to the other. Right off the bat, the trailer subverts our expectations by opening with a flashback that runs in stark contrast to everything the first movie was. ![]() Now, I realise that I’m making the amateur mistake of getting excited about a film based on nothing more than a two-minute trailer, but hear me out. I really should have had more faith in John Krasinski. ![]() So here it is, our first real look at A Quiet Place Part II. That it would spawn the obligatory, strained sequel, forcing an unnecessary narrative, thereby undoing the first movie’s understated brilliance. So much so that when I heard just how much money the movie had made at the box-office, I began to fear the worst. Its magnificent pre-credits sequence, both heart-stoppingly tense and heartbreakingly tragic, sets up the world and everything you need to know in under 10 minutes. That movie – directed, co-written, and starring John Krasinski – was as close to perfect as a horror thriller could be. I was pretty sure I didn’t want or even need a sequel to A Quiet Place.
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