Paramount has released the final trailer for John Krasinski’s horror thriller A Quiet Place ahead of its Thursday bow.
Krasinski directs and co-stars opposite his real-life wife Emily Blunt in the film as a husband and wife trying to protect their kids in a post-apocalyptic Earth inundated by terrifying monsters. The key word in the film is “quiet” because, as the tag line warns, “If they hear you, they hunt you.”
In the final trailer, we hear the first dialogue actually spoken thus far in the film’s marketing campaign.
In addition to Krasinski and Blunt, the film features Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds. Krasinski re-wrote the script from an earlier draft by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods. Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller produce.
Paramount releases A Quiet Place on April 6.
Check out the trailer above.
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Paramount Pictures has released a final trailer for director/star John Krasinski’s upcoming horror thriller A Quiet Place. Scripted by Krasinski, Bryan Woods, and Scott Beck, the film takes place in a sort of post-apocalyptic world where humans are terrorized by creatures that hunt only by using sound. This specific story revolves around the goings-on of a family living in this environment: a husband, wife, and their two children. Oh and the wife is pregnant because they are idiots.
The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival last month to rave reviews from that discerning genre-oriented audience, so anticipation has ramped up considerably. Even before the reactions were positive, A Quiet Place looked to be a unique spin on the horror genre, which was reason enough to see it. But many who saw the film at SXSW praised Krasinski’s craft as a director, pointing to the skill with which he puts together some terrifying horror set pieces and jump scares. Not to mention a notable creature design.
This final trailer delves deeper into the plot, so if you’re already sold on the movie I’d probably suggest not watching this new clip. But if you remain unconvinced, it may be worth taking a peek to see if this will finally convince you to give it a shot. Regardless of your choice, check out the final A Quiet Place trailer below. The film also stars Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe and opens in theaters on April 6th.
The horror genre is a great place to experiment – whether that means employing subliminal imagery (The Exorcist), shooting a film in a (seemingly) single take (The Silent House), or pretending the actors are dead as part of the marketing buzz (The Blair Witch Project). But at the mainstream, Platinum Dunes (Michael Bay’s production company) end of things, there’s a certain laziness, in both form and content – hence the proliferation of remakes and sequels.
Based on a spec script by Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, and rewritten by director/star John Krasinski, Platinum Dunes’ latest takes a scenario we’ve seen hundreds of times before – how to survive after the fall of civilisation – and makes it fresh with a superb conceit. Whatever has decimated humanity hunts by sound. To survive, humans must make as little noise as possible. The implications of this are enormous – no talking, no machines, and God help anyone who sneezes.
In a pre-credits sequence, we meet a family – dad Lee (Krasinski), mum Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and their kids (Noah Jupe, Millicent Simmonds, and Cade Woodward) – as they raid a deserted supermarket for supplies. It’s Day 81, a subtitle tells us, and fallen traffic lights and missing persons posters quickly fill in the scale, if not the nature, of what’s happened. It’s all a little bit 28 Days Later, until Something Very Bad happens to them.
The action begins again on Day 472. The family have settled into domestic harmony of a sort on an abandoned farmstead. The walls are papered with newspapers to muffle any noise, and they eat soft food on cabbage leafs instead of plates. There’s even time for some R&R, as Blunt (now pregnant) and Krasinski dance to music playing through her headphones. It’s cute, but it can’t last, and the sense of looming jeopardy is palpable – particularly as Blunt’s due date nears.
We’re not going to spoiler one of the film’s two trump cards. Suffice to say the special effects are extraordinary and sparingly used. But the main thing that puts A Quiet Place well ahead of the pack is its stunning sound (by Erik Aadahl, Brandon Jones, Michael Barosky and co) and haunting score (by Marco Beltrami). The maudlin piano music is ever so slightly out of tune, like it’s being played live on a piano that only just survived the apocalypse.
Cleverly making the most of the quiet-LOUD-quiet-LOUD dynamics of most horror films, the sound is the real star. The silence is eerie, particularly when ‘heard’ from the muted perspective of the character played by Simmonds, who’s actually deaf. When anything disturbs that peace, the soundtrack thunders terrifyingly to life, resulting in a film that simply screams from the screen.
