Remember 2018’s A Quiet Place? The movie that–albeit indirectly–brought us Netflix’s Bird Box as well as The Silence? It cost $17 million to produce and earned almost $341 million. There’s no way that it wasn’t getting a sequel though was the original as good as a lot of people seem to think? I’d have to […]
I didn’t see IT: Chapter 2 because I was underwhelmed by IT: Chapter 1 so I didn’t quite see the point. And with Doctor Sleep coming sometime in November I’m looking forward to some horror content before that time, so enter Haunt. It sounds vaguely like The Houses October Built, though with Eli Roth directing […]
The Silence is thematically speaking vaguely similar to A Quiet Place and Bird Box in that they all revolve around antagonists that key into a particular sense. A Quiet Place revolved around creatures that hunted by sound–the same as those in The Silence–while Bird Box’s terrors were visually driven. And that similarity would be fine […]
2018’s A Quiet Place came in the nick of time because Paramount–the studio that released it–was on relatively shaky ground after the underwhelming response to Star Trek: Beyond (there’s no colon in the title but I’m adding one anyway). It certain didn’t hurt that A Quiet Place was budgeted at $17 million and earned just […]
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