A Quiet Place (2018)

WHY DIDN'T THEY LIVE NEXT TO THE WATERFALL

the damp kept messing up the giant speakers

WHY DIDN'T THEY LIVE NEXT TO THE WATERFALL

A White Noisy Place (2018)

those poor children, the only thing they were allowed to play on the piano was John Cage's "4'33"

This was dumb as shit, wtf everybody

jim's pullout game must've been very weak

tbf, emily blunt, etc etc

This was dumb as shit, wtf everybody

shakey otm.

so we have to believe that this things have defeated every army across the globe but they end up vulnerable to a single shotgun blast. why didn't the family live in the basement? or attempt to soundproof their house in any way or even close the fucking doors? or have some remotely operated noisemakers set up around the farm? i nearly screamed when they put the baby in the box - and then they sit there calmly chatting and not freaking out that they've had to put their baby in a fucking sealed box. and then the leak - it looked like at least 10,000 litres of water down there, that must have been one giant pipe that got broken.

i've seen both of these and didn't love either. didn't hate them either. the premise doesn't hold up to scrutiny but that isn't what doesn't make the film work, cos lots of horror doesn't. it's just that in terms of apocalyptic horror, it does one thing over and over again, and doesn't do it particularly well.

and the indicating kills me. do we need an overdramatic finger over the mouth every time someone is telling someone else to be quiet?

things that would get you killed, in my estimation:

1) farting/pooping
2) coughing
3) sneezing
4) peeing
5) snoring
6) talking in sleep
7) literally any squirrel playing outside your house
8) sex
9) pushing someone in a wheelchair

The hand mouth finger move, though overused, the more I think about it the more I think it is VERY necessary

yes I am trying really hard to be quoted out of context

And to your point about the squirrels, they had a jump scare in the second film with a bunch of birds that fly away suddenly. Now birds flying away wouldn't be as loud as they are in a movie that is trying to use that moment to scare you, but yeah that should have still been enough to summon a decibelgorgon.

The thing that bothers me the most is when there is a noise trap or an accident that creates noise- the characters go "jig's up!" and run. I have no idea why they run. Shouldn't they just move away from the noise object immediately and then stand still? The thing is going to come smack the source of the noise (why do they seem to just smack things that make noise? Are they hunting or just pissed off?) and then it will simply move along, right? The noise of running tips them off pretty good. I couldn't tell if they were supposed to have any other way of detecting people, but maybe that was made obvious at some point. I forget. But maybe that's why it's not worth staying quiet anymore?

heh i was wondering about that too.

esp since these things seem to be light-speed fast once alerted

Second film felt very much like episodes 4 and 5 of the third series of some interminable Walking Dead type show.

Yikes wouldn't go that far, but they did abandon the fun nobody-talks element so it did seem way more generic in that sense. Will say it did feel way more akin to modern survival console story games like Last Of Us 2 etc. Maybe that sounds even worse, but Walking Dead is a pretty dismal comparison these days.

Tbf, I did say third series not eleventh series

I read this thread for a little while before I realized it wasn't about the Emily Dickinson biography by Terence Davies.

Why is 90% of horror just dumb garbage?

Um, Theodore Sturgeon to thread?