A Quiet Place: Day One

Experience the day the world went quiet.

This is the intriguing prequel that complicates the series’ nuts-and-bolts horror-thriller premise with a disquieting rumination on mortality and meaning. Plus: a very good cat.

Grounded in raw humanity by Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn, this sideways entry into A Quiet Place finds fresh notes of fright to play amid the silence.

Surpasses expectations for the entire franchise of quiet places, going hyper-focused and resisting the urge to go bigger and broader and explain, explain, explain all the whys and wherefores of what’s happening. This one is the best of the three films, by far.

Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
United States, United Kingdom, Canada (American Sign Language, English)
1h 39min