A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

2nd July 2024

Dir: Michael Sarnoski

Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou

While it may not recapture the originality or heart of the first film, this side project still delivers the thrills and surprising emotional beats synonymous with the horror series.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Over the past decade we have seen a huge influx of creative and original horror movies as we find ourselves in the era of the so called “elevated” horror movie. With movie studios such as A24 allowing their filmmakers to have full creative license over their movies, we have seen some great modern day auteurs break onto the scene in recent years through the medium of horror. These include the likes of Jennifer Kent, Ti West, Ari Aster, Robert Eggers and most notably Jordan Peele. The genre has always served as a gateway into the industry for directors and actors alike due to its often low risk-high reward production strategy, and few have benefited more than “A Quiet Place” creators Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. After their directorial debut “Nightlight” failed to take off in 2015, the Iowa natives sold their original screenplay for “A Quiet Place” to Paramount Pictures, where it was snapped up by star of “The Office”, John Krasinski, to be his own directorial feature….