After more than a year of delay, Paramount s
A Quiet Place Part II made its presence known this weekend with a thundering $48.38 million at the North American box office. That s only $2 million shy of the first movie s weekend opening in early April 2018. As
Part I only cost $17 million to make, while the sequel carries a much larger price tag of $61 million.
Nevertheless, the horror sequel (written and directed by the returning John Krasinski) still made a ton of noise by setting a record for the biggest three-day domestic opening of the COVID-19 pandemic, unseating the previous $32 million milestone achieved by Warner Bros.
A Quiet Place wove its magic by being a damn good human drama first and foremost. The family dynamic and the near-impossibility of even surviving in the world was sketched out in a few opening scenes that still seem to me as perfect a wordless piece of world-building as anyone ever needs to make.
A Quiet Place Part II opens with a deft callback to that film. It is so eerily effective that when Dad Lee s (John Krasinski) truck shatters the early morning silence and swings noisily into a park, it comes as a shock. A title card has already announced this is “Day One”, but the realisation that we are about to watch the first minutes of the invasion is still a surprise – and kind of a delight.
After more than a year of COVID-related delays,
A Quiet Place Part IIis finally scheduled to noiselessly makes its way into theaters next Friday (May 28) for Memorial Day weekend. But is writer-director John Krasinski s horror sequel worth an in-person journey to the theater? According to the first reviews, that answer is yes. If you’re vaccinated and feeling safe enough to step foot outside your home, Krasinski has crafted a followup that justifies the trip, writes
Variety s Peter Debruge. Krasinski so effectively embraces the opposite strategy: Less is more, suggestion can be scarier than showing everything, and few things are more unnerving than silence.