hey guys what is up nyet here with film comics explained and today we'll be exploring the 2018 sci-fi horror film a quiet place starring Emily Blunt Millicent Simmons no a tube and John Krasinski in his directorial debut the film is essentially about survival and the legs parents will go to ensure their kids make it through the dangers of a world filled with monsters one of the great strengths of this film is that there's no needless exposition or prologue explaining what had happened to earth or how the monsters had got there the film begins on day 89 in the aftermath of their arrival and we as viewers are dropped into the middle of a story that's already ongoing the only brief explanation that we get is from a collage of newspaper clippings the family had posted in their home and notes that Lee the patriarch of the group had been writing what we do know immediately is that any sound that is made essentially losing hyper-aggressive extraterrestrial creatures they used echolocation to map out their environment to reduce their audible footprints lead begun to soundproof his family's home by laying soft sound around their property and major walkways painting all the non creaky floorboards and teaching his family sign language as for the aliens not only where their bodies almost indestructible showing no damage from explosions and weapons fire but their razor-sharp claws were able to tear through metal with ease which meant that if you didn't have a plan you were likely going to bite the dust this is made absolutely clear from the onset of the film with the tragic and sudden loss of their youngest child bow that we snatched up by one of the monsters after turning on loud toy that his father had forbidden him from playing with and though Lee had taken the batteries out of the toy and left it in the abandoned store his eldest daughter Gretchen wanted to make beau happy and handed it back to him what she could not have known was that he had also taken the batteries and while she was directly in front of her brother when he switched it on Gretchen was also deaf and couldn't hear this leading to his unfortunate and shocking demise since that day Gretchen had lived with guilt and the belief that her father blamed her for his passing and though this was far from true is inability to tell her that he loved her only further fed this guilt in reality both Evelyn and Leigh blamed nobody for the event which they both saw as an unfortunate accident I guess they'll feel the weight in my arms who are we [Music] we can protect them the death of their youngest son also made the arrival of their first baby in the chaotic conditions extremely problematic forcing them to create a set of rules to ensure their survival I think we should also be noted as terrified as the prospect of having a child was for the family the arrival of a new baby was a symbol of hope for both the family and the future of the human race giving them something more substantial to live for other than survival itself now the horrifying aliens which I've named the listener's had arrived on the back of meteors from a hostile planet that had no light which is why they had no eyes and used echolocation to sense out their environment the inhospitable nature of their planet also led to the aliens developing a nya invulnerable armored exterior that was impervious to almost all forms of attack I mean this exterior was so durable that the creatures that essentially survived traveling on meteors in the vacuum of space for hundreds if not thousands of years prior to crashing on earth we also see a few article clippings that emphasize this point by revealing bullets and bombs were not able to penetrate their armor production designer Jeffrey B Croft was responsible for the creatures development and had taken all of christen skis notes to create a somewhat humanoid creature that had adapted to a world without light references were pulled from prehistoric fish snakes spiders and bats to explore the movement of the listeners while their exterior was modeled around bug people which were human cadavers that had been naturally mummified in peat giving their tough exterior a leathery look their bodies were remarkably similar to the cloven monster though there were numerous times smaller than the massive kaiju their long limbs also enabled them to move with great speed and as mentioned earlier their sharp claws were seen ripping through metal with ease their teeth were also modeled on the classic character venom giving them a menacing grin upon approach their heads which looks similar to the demagogue in in stranger things contained a massive echolocation chamber that would open up to increase the sensitivity of their hearing this moment was also incidentally the only time the indestructible beasts were vulnerable and is something the Abbott family would eventually piece together I've actually covered both the demagoguing and the cloven monster in separate videos and will leave a link these below if you're interested both Chris in ski and his sound designers also explained that the creatures were intelligent and communicated amongst one another through sound frequencies the creatures also gave off an electromagnetic frequency that affected electronics and we would see the lights flicker whenever they would need one of the most interesting things about the listeners was that they actually did not feed on any people and the reason they hunted humanity and most of the other life-forms on earth to extinction were so that they could replicate the quiet place that was once their home planet now the abbot's were a farming family which meant they were able to live off the land harmoniously without creating much noise an important skill we see passed down from Lee on to his children while much of the population had been wiped out the abbot's actually lived among a small group of survivors that intentionally stayed in isolated pockets to avoid the aliens at the start of the film we see Lee lighting a fire and as he looked on into the distance we saw that there were numerous other farms that did the same thing in a scene that was reminiscent to the lighting of the warning beacons in the Lord of the Rings at no point do we actually see them interact with the other families but I think it's safe to assume they'd all communicated with each other and shared resources to modify their homes into quiet safe havens with the arrival of a new baby on the way the family had begun to further soundproof their home they also created a unique box coupled with the breathing apparatus for their infant should the need arise for them to further insulate the sound that it made we also noticed that Lee was working on upgrading Regan's hearing aid to restore her hearing hoping to give her a fighting chance in a world where sound meant life or death Lee ultimately failed to upgrade her hearing aid with the devices he had created all producing a deafening high-pitched sound which was unbearable to his daughter and even more painful to the creatures who had an overdeveloped sensitivity to sound this ended up being extremely useful and we saw a few examples of the hearing aid inadvertently saving Regan and her family in events that foreshadowed the film's conclusion with Evelyn do to give birth in a few days Lee took his son Marcus to a nearby river and attempted to teach him how to fish and while Reagan was fearlessly enthusiastic to join her father and Marcus was terrified Lee decided to take his son fearing that his daughter's hearing impaired would lead to another accident this in turn led a frustrated Reagan to visit the memorial set up for both leaving Evelyn alone on the farm having lived in silence for so long Marcus was scared at all the sound being made by the river but Lee was able to explain that there was so much natural sound being developed that they were practically inaudible for what happened [Music] cuz she believes herself alone in the house Evelyn began going into labor unexpectedly and on her way to the basement she stepped on a large nail that caused her to drop a frame instantly alerting a nearby creature that made its way into their home switching the lights to red to signal that the creatures had arrived she then made her way to the bathroom in an anxiety inducing seed struggling not to make a sound every step of the way seeing the red lights on display Lee arrived back onto the farm with Marcus and instructed him to set off fireworks as a diversion enabling him to find Evelyn in the bathroom with their newborn son Lee then promised his wife that he would protect them all before heading out to find Marcus and Regan who had also recently returned to the farm after noticing the fireworks sitting atop of the grain silo both Regan and Marcus attempted to signal their parents by lighting a bonfire to no avail a hatch door then gave way below the feet of Marcus sending him falling into the silo the sound of which also sent the monster trailing Evelyn towards the location of the children the two kids ended up helping each other to avoid suffocating but are attacked by the vicious creature that responded to the sound they were making luckily for the kids Reagan's implant reacted to the proximity of the creature by emitting a loud high-frequency sound that drove it away the kids then reunited with their father only to have the monster returned with furious intent severely wounding Lee in the process Marcus then let out an impulsive scream attracting the creature back towards the kids which viciously began to tear through the vehicle they were hiding inside Lee then use sign language to tell both of his kids that he would always loved them before screaming at the monster in the ultimate display of self-sacrifice the remaining Abbott's then retreated into the soundproof basement where Regan was able to see all of her father's notes and the creatures and his experimentation with several different implants when the creature returned to finish the job Ragan was finally able to deduce that the sound being made by her implant caused the creatures distress leading her to switch it back on and place it on a nearby microphone which magnified its effect painfully disorientated the creature finally exposed the flesh beneath its armored head allowing Evelyn to take it down with a single shotgun hit to the head the abbot's then see the two remaining aliens in the vicinity on the CCTV cameras sprinting towards them but this time the family was prepared and we saw everything [ __ ] a shotgun in anticipation easily my favorite Thriller of 2018 a quiet place skillfully plays on our elemental fears with a race of intelligent and ruthlessly cunning creatures and a nuclear family that was determined to survive them one of the best things about this film is that in the end both Lee and Evelyn had succeeded in their quest to protect their children and inadvertently ended up discovering weakness to the creatures due to the fact that they already lived in a small isolated community it's likely the Abbott would have passed this news on to their neighbors as well as others around the world through the radio Lee had built in their basement well that's all for today folks thanks to all of you guys who requested an explanation of a quiet place I'm curious to hear your thoughts and opinions on the story and creatures featured in the film so please share those in the comments below if there's any other stuff you'd like me to check out please don't hesitate to ask as always it's been a pleasure niet here with film comics explained thanks for stopping by [Music] you