Even the film’s director finds it hilarious. Unique and weird.
After grossing $50m over its opening weekend, it’s clear that A Quiet Place is making a big noise with film fans. Ever since the superb premise was revealed, horror fans knew that John Krasinski’s film had the potential to be incredibly different and we’re delighted to say that it has delivered in spades.
In case you’re not familiar with the premise, it’s quite simple.
A family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you. Make a noise and die.
With a rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and a very impressive haul at the box-office, it’s clear that horror fans were hungry for this type of film.
Speaking of going hungry, plenty of cinemagoers have noted that the experience of watching A Quiet Place is unique to anything else because people aren’t munching on popcorn, snacking on sweets or slurping on their drinks.
Yes, that’s right.
A Quiet Place is so scary and inventive that people are afraid to eat their food. Now that’s the sign of a good horror film!
A Quiet Place is the worst movie to eat popcorn during.
— Rebecca Pahle (@RebeccaPahle) April 3, 2018
How scary is “A Quiet Place”? Well, while we were leaving the theater a food server dropped a metal tray on the ground. Everyone who had just seen the movie spun around and looked at the noise with genuine terror. Hell of a film @johnkrasinski. #AQuietPlace pic.twitter.com/kIoCoyTKtW
— Blaine Gibson (@BGibbles) April 8, 2018
A heads up – if you go and see ‘A quiet place’ at the cinema, don’t buy any snacks. I managed about 3 kernels of popcorn throughout 🍿 ❌
— Jack McCann (@jackmcnn) April 5, 2018
anytime I tried biting into my reese’s pieces while watching A Quiet Place I felt like I was risking the safety of the theater
— Nate Z (@NathanZed) April 8, 2018
A Quiet Place was good but do NOT bring kettle chips to the movie because it WILL BE loud and people WILL notice how fast you’re eating #AQuietPlace @johnkrasinski
— Molly (@mollllypocket) April 8, 2018
A Quiet Place is maybe the most stressed out I've been during a movie in a good while.
Also don't get popcorn during this movie. Trust me.
— Grant Smith (@MasterWuggles) April 8, 2018
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“A quiet place” is a good movie to watch until you decide not to eat your food because you feel like you’re making too much noise so you Start to starve then your stomach growls and the whole theater hears
— Megan (@hankin_megan) April 9, 2018
This strange effect didn’t go unnoticed on the writer, director and star of A Quiet Place, John Krasinski.
JOE’s Rory Cashin caught up with the star of The Office and Away We Go last week and Krasinski revealed that he got a good kick out of the fact that his film has changed the cinema habits of the audience.
“In this movie, you have this very rare thing where people say ‘you have to see this in the theatre.’ If I say that, I sound pretentious, but if the people coming out of it say ‘ you have to see this in the theatre’ then it’s great and the reason why is that I think you have to live under the rules of this family. You have to become really quiet. The other thing I love is that there are people that are taking visual imprints of those people that are eating popcorn. We had some people at the screening who said” the film is really, really good, but that’s the guy who was eating popcorn,” said Krasinski.
Emily Blunt also couldn’t help but laugh at this bizarre phenomenon. “I think it’s the interactive experience because you don’t want to be that person who’s munching popcorn and everyone is saying ‘shut up, you’re going to get them killed!”
With such good reviews, A Quiet Place might be in contention for some awards but we’re fairly certain that it already holds a unique accolade. This could be the first film where people are walking out of the cinema with a full box of popcorn.
You can check out Rory’s interviews with Emily Blunt and John Krasinski here.
