You don’t realize how much you take sound for granted until it’s gone.
Set in a near-future where the slightest noise could kill you, star John Krasinski’s third directorial effort, A Quiet Place, creates an immersive, unsettling viewing experience that will change the way you watch a movie — just as it changed the way Krasinski and his collaborators made one.
“I think the crew thought it was a silent movie, so they said, ‘oh, we can make as much noise as we want, because they’ll just edit it out,'” Krasinski tells IGN, explaining that in reality, the film’s lack of dialogue is used to heighten the diegetic background sounds that would usually be lost under a character’s lines or the soundtrack. “So it was really fun to see these incredible crew members moving trucks and cables and all that stuff just stop dead, frozen. It was like the red light, green light game.”