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Download a quiet place john krasinski8/27/2023 Krasinski blew that feeling up and turned it into an entire plot: When making noise anywhere at any time is life-threatening, an egg timer is enough to bring down life as you know it. When no one is making a sound in a horror movie, you hold your breath, lest you tip off the killer all the way from the other side of the screen. If those screeching strings hadn’t been playing over the top of Norman Bates stabbing Marion Crane, would we even be talking about Psycho today? And so it follows that the absence of noise is just as important. ![]() It’s almost too obvious to say, but sound is central to horror. ![]() John Krasinski Wants You to Be Afraid of Him But the real kick of A Quiet Place is its perfect driving conceit: The monsters hunt by sound, and anything above whisper decibel will draw them in. Together they play Evelyn and Lee, married parents of two with a baby on the way, who are doing everything they can to make a good life for their children - while keeping them safe from lightning-fast monsters that seem to have overrun the whole planet. The script, which Krasinski rewrote from a first draft by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, is a well-executed study in tension, and it’s given emotional heft by the onscreen dynamic he shares with his real-life partner, Emily Blunt. So how did the Jim from Dunder Mifflin pull off this critical and box-office coup? By making a pure hit of horror adrenaline shot straight into the mainline. John Krasinski was not a likely candidate to direct one of the year’s most anticipated horror films, and yet, A Quiet Place premiered at this year’s SXSW festival to jubilant reviews, earning a near perfect critical rating as it sails into its opening weekend - where it’s slated to take the top box-office spot from Steven Spielberg’s gargantuan Ready Player One. ![]() * This post includes spoilers for A Quiet Place.
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