And the creatures - previously identified more by their juddering movements and screeching attack sounds than by unobstructed visibility almost until the end - are now seen in all their fearsome glory from the outset. In 90 minutes and change, the family faces one peril after another, the dangers far more frequent and accelerated than before. It’s another breathless chamber piece, expertly crafted to pack dread into every nerve-rattling sound.Ĭast: Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou, John Krasinskiĭirector-screenwriter: John Krasinski, based on characters created by Brian Woods, Scott Beck Taking on solo screenwriting credit in his taut follow-up, director Krasinski again foregrounds that disorienting premise of a modern world in which noise can get you killed, as the same characters this time desperately struggle to protect one another without their fallen paterfamilias. The silence of a darkened theater invariably is the best place to experience a horror movie, and that was doubly true of John Krasinski’s runaway 2018 hit A Quiet Place, in which a family’s bid for survival depends on them remaining unheard by blind alien predators with heightened auditory powers.

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