Real life couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are powerhouses in this spine-chilling monster movie and their love and affection translate beautifully on-screen. The film starts 89 days into what seems to be an alien invasion, and the audience is quickly made aware that the Abbotts haven’t made a rural lifestyle choice, they’re in survival mode, sequestered and as silent as can be. Written, directed, and starring John Krasinski (TV’s The Office ), A Quiet Place is an apocalyptic alien thriller that follows the Abbott family – Lee (John Krasinski), Evelyn (Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada ), their daughter Regan ( Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck ), and their two sons, Marcus (Noah Jupe, Wonder ) and Beau (Cade Woodward). And in the same vein, it’s daunting, smart, and unexpected. Since then (and despite the box office successes of Annabelle: Creation and IT ), A Quiet Place is the first horror film to represent the genre with even an ounce of Get Out’s originality. With another horror film ( Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare ) being released next Friday the 13th, h orror fans have had quite a few screams to buzz about since February 2017, with Jordan Peele’s Academy Award-winning debut feature, Get Out, scaring audiences into a realm of horror we’ve never seen before.
February released the biographical ghost story, Winchester, and January cashed in on a ghoulish fourth installment of Insidious: The Last Key. March brought us the psychological Unsane as well as the poorly received serial killer sequel, The Strangers: Prey At Night. So where is the seemingly undead horror genre as of late? The first weekend of April has sprung and movie traffic is hot on the heels of an impressive Easter weekend at the box office! Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel, Ready Player One, broke personal records for Spielberg and debuted in the number one spot worldwide, making it the second biggest opening of the year, after Marvel’s Black Panther. The gamer film is spliced with a CGI outburst of the most nightmarish scenes from The Shining but it’s still a sci-fi/fantasy.
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