Format: DVD from DeKalb Public Library on basement television
When A Quiet Place came out, I think a lot of people were surprised by it. I certainly was. I didn’t expect something like that to come out of the guy who became the central character of The Office. It’s a solid movie, though, one that, giving us a standard horror movie premise of giant monsters attacking the world, manages to present us with a story that is new in a lot of ways. A substantial amount of the tension comes not from the creatures themselves, but the threat of the creatures. They have shown to us as having hypersensitive hearing, and so the entire world of the film is one of silence and dread. This is very much continued in A Quiet Place Part II.
We start with a flashback, not a flashback to the original film, but a flashback to the history of this world. We see the arrival of the creatures, which means that we’re going to get a cameo from John Krasinski as Lee, the father of the family in the original film and this sequel. The action begins at a baseball game. Lee’s son Marcus (Noah Jupe) is at the plate and takes a strike because of what he sees. And then all hell breaks loose. The creatures land and begin attacking. We see Lee and his wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt), protecting their kids and getting to safety.
