The remote farm where the Abbotts had been living up until now is destroyed, and supplies are running low. Teenage deaf daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds, who is deaf in real life) realized that the sound-sensitive creatures can be kept at bay by the high-frequency feedback emitted by her cochlear implant and – if they open their alien auditory canals – can be killed with a gun. They live the perfect life, attending their son's baseball game in their small suburban town, before a huge flaming object appears in the sky, bringing chaos and death.Īfter this brief but action-packed flashback that sets the mood, "A Quiet Place Part II" picks up where the first film ended.Ĭillian Murphy is a newcomer in "A Quiet Place Part II," playing the Abbotts' old friend Emmett, who has lost his entire family.
Only the audience knows about what's about to come. A sequel was therefore only a matter of time.Īfter some initial skepticism, screenwriter and director Krasinski, who also played one of the main roles in the first film, was persuaded to make "A Quiet Place Part II."ĭespite his on-screen death in the first film, he also stars in the sequel, as the thriller starts with a flashback.Ī year before the events of "A Quiet Place," the world of Lee Abbott (Krasinski), his wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and their three children is still normal. With a relatively small production budget of around 20 million dollars, John Krasinski's horror grossed over 340 million dollars worldwide.
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Thanks to its alien characters with ultra-sensitive hearing in a post-apocalyptic world, the movie made the cinema-goers bite their nails and try not to make a sound. “We saw it right at the beginning during the alien invasion, when everything is so cacophonous and terrifying and then we switch immediately to Regan’s perspective of just silence, and there’s such a powerful dynamic shift there that we really couldn’t do in the first movie because there weren’t as many scenes with such a sense of chaos.The horror movie "A Quiet Place" was a major box office when it hit the big screen three years ago. “When we looked at John ’s script, we were certain that he was thinking about the sound at every moment because we could see so many opportunities built into the story for us to switch perspectives sonically,” Van Der Ryn said. While jump scares often use loud bursts of sound to shock people, “A Quiet Place – Part II” goes in the opposite direction as Van Der Ryn and Aadahl, working with mixer Brandon Proctor, cut out all sound in multiple scenes to show the terror through Regan’s perspective, making the sudden appearance of one of the creatures even more frightening when it is shown that Regan can’t hear its approaching stomps and roars. This technique was particularly used on the film’s main deaf protagonist, Regan, played by Millicent Simmonds. “We felt it would have been too obvious to use the ‘clicks’ that those sort of animals use as the basis for the creatures, but we found that when you record the clicks made by a stun gun and slow them down, they create this disturbing, otherworldly sound that was perfect for the film.” “The creatures use strong hearing to hunt, so we started with the idea of replicating actual animals like dolphins and bats that use echolocation to observe their surroundings,” Van Der Ryn said. To create the roars and hisses of the aliens that hunt the Abbotts, Van Der Ryn and Aadahl found the answer in an unexpected place: a stun gun. While sound editors compile the different sounds used in a film, a creature feature like “A Quiet Place” brings the additional challenge of creating new sounds entirely for monsters that don’t exist in reality. Together and individually, the two have worked on films like “Titanic,” the “Transformers” and the “Kung Fu Panda” series,” and the upcoming “Space Jam: A New Legacy.” Van Der Ryn has also won two Oscars for his sound editing on “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” and the 2005 remake of “King Kong.” “A Quiet Place” earned Van Der Ryn and Erik Aadahl their third Oscar nomination as a sound editing team, adding to a career that spans some of the biggest blockbusters of the past quarter-century. ‘A Quiet Place - Part II’ Sets New Pandemic Record With $57 Million Memorial Day Opening
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