text: A QUIET PLACE (2018) - Thepostapoc
  Most of the great horror movies are so because we become actively invested in the fate of the characters and involved in the cinematic exercise playing out before us. It is a tight thrill ride—the kind of movie that quickens the heart rate and plays with the expectations of the audience, while never treating them like idiots. In other words, it's a really good horror movie.
  With almost no dialogue, "A Quiet Place" relies a great deal on visual storytelling, but I'll admit that it also uses the crutches of composer Marco Beltrami's strings for jump scares a bit too much. It's total conjecture, but one can almost sense Platinum Dunes head Michael Bay insisting on those devices, and I'd love to see a version of "A Quiet Place" that's even sparser in terms of on-the-nose choices like sound-scares and an overheated score.