Regan discovered that high-frequency audio feedback makes the creatures vulnerable, and she devises a makeshift method of transmitting the noise from her cochlear implant through a portable microphone. Over a year later, the creatures have killed much of the Earth's population, including Beau and Lee. The blind creatures possess armored skin, have extraordinary speed and strength, and track victims with hypersensitive hearing, attacking anything that makes a noise. Hostile extraterrestrial creatures attack and begin slaughtering people.

It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the story and the addition of Murphy's character Emmett.ĭuring a baseball game, the Abbott family – wife Evelyn, husband Lee, deaf daughter Regan, and sons Marcus and Beau – and other spectators witness a strange asteroid-like object hurtle towards the Earth.

The film set several box office records, including the biggest opening weekend of the COVID-19 pandemic, and grossed $297.4 million worldwide. It became available to stream on Paramount+ 45 days after its theatrical debut. The film had its world premiere in New York City on March 8, 2020, and after over a year of postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was theatrically released in the United States on May 28, 2021. The sequel was produced on a budget of $55–61 million, over three times the original's $17 million. Krasinski was credited with writing the sequel, based on characters created by Bryan Woods and Scott Beck. Production took place in Western New York from June to September 2019. By the following August, Krasinski was working on the screenplay, and in February 2019, he was confirmed as returning to direct. Paramount Pictures began development of a sequel in April 2018, following the box-office and critical success of the first film. Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe reprise their roles from the first film, while Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou join the cast Krasinski returns from the first film in a new flashback sequence. The film was written, produced, and directed by John Krasinski for Paramount Pictures. A Quiet Place Part II is a 2020 American horror film and the sequel to 2018's A Quiet Place, following the family from the first film as they continue to navigate and survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind aliens with an acute sense of hearing.

A quiet place (2018)