Movie #1604 "A Quiet Place:" --- First, I should start by saying that I don't usually watch horror movies, a genre this particular film would be labelled. In fact, I had to wait to watch this one until I had someone else to watch it with (Dave dislikes horror pictures so much, he refused to see it with me ---- he still hasn't seen "Silence of the Lambs," which went on to win a bunch of oscars and therefore was the impetus for me to finally sit down and watch it, but it still is one of the few I've seen in the horror genre). Anyway, I have so much respect for the leads in this film (John Krasinski and his wife Emily Blunt) that I trusted that in their hands they had something important to say , and I respect that they tried to do it in a very creative way. I must admit that I had some misgivings while watching it --- for one, I wish they would have had more explanations for what was happening, and secondly, I disliked that guns were used in the film as part of the solution to their problems..... that being said, I feel the film succeeds mostly in the competent, creative way it unfolds.... once you get sucked into the story, it is hard to break away --- it is that tense! And all of this is done without SOUND, which is unbelievable, esp. to one who depends mostly on sound for her information (like me). That's probably why I wanted even more information to be given to me ---- the film was mostly relying on visuals, and I confess that I probably missed some along the way. But that doesn't take away from how different this film is --- how creative it is ---- how difficult it must have been to do it --- bow powerful the message is when done in such a unique way ---- and how important the film is to see for its one-of-a-kind style. I highly recommend it for those reasons. "Attention must be paid " to this film for the risks it takes to get across its message. Well done!
"A QUIET PLACE" 2018
In this tense chiller, the horror mounts as the Abbott family struggles to survive in a postapocalyptic world where monstrous blind creatures use their supersensitive hearing to stalk human prey -- forcing the Abbotts to live in silence.
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