History YMMV / AQuietPlace

* CounterpartComparison: The premise of hearing-based monsters are quite similar to that of [[VideoGame/TheLastOfUs the Clickers in The Last of Us]]. Probably helps that there's a bearded protagonist.

* CounterpartComparison: The premise of hearing-based monsters are quite similar to that of [[VideoGame/TheLastOfUs the Clickers]]. Probably helps that there's a bearded protagonist.

** Fans of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' had a field day due to John Krasinski being the lead role, leading to mash-ups of the film and the series. The most common example being the pre-credits gag from Episode 11 of Season 8, ''Trivia''.

* {{HSQ}}: Almost all of the Super Bowl trailer, but especially the beginning where it’s implied [[spoiler: the monster is part of an invading alien force]].

* EstrogenBrigade: Not pronounced, but many fans have noticed that Krasinski's general rugged good looks in this movie, such as his beard and broad shoulders, make him a perfect example of a {{hunk}} here. That hey's playing a PapaWolf only emphasizes it.

* SpiritualLicensee:
** Considering the trend of the ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' multiverse to be more of an anthology series focused around some vaguely similar ideas, and this movie uses some of those ideas, some see ''A Quiet Place'' as a great ''Cloverfield'' movie. It's almost universally seen as a better ''Cloverfield'' film than ''Film/TheCloverfieldParadox'', which was released the same year by Paramount and Netflix. Funnily enough, Krasinski actually considered throwing a few ''Cloverfield'' references into his film, but ultimately decided against it.
** Or, it can be seen as a ''completely'' humorless and straight-horror successor to ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', another story about invincible blind monsters that you can only hide from by being ''completely'' silent.
** ''Or'' it can be seen as a new take on ''Film/TheDeadlySpawn'', another film with a small group of people in an isolated farmhouse fending off eyeless, sound-sensitive aliens with lots of teeth who come to Earth via meteorites, the same way a newspaper headline in ''A Quiet Place'' suggests its creatures got here.

* SilenceIsGolden

* Silenceisgolden

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Some have speculated director Creator/JohnKrasinski was going for a political allegory, where people are attacked for using their voices. Both Krasinski and Creator/EmilyBlunt have said that wasn't the intention, but they enjoy that audience are leaving the movie talking about "deep stuff."
** A [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-silently-regressive-politics-of-a-quiet-place/ New Yorker article]] accused the film of exhibiting regressive politics because the humans are white gun-owners who must remain silent and the monsters are all dark-skinned.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: While the old man is clearly distraught by his assumed wife's death, some are not very sympathetic to his decision to scream out and attract the monster when another man and his young son are only a few feet from him as opposed to waiting until they were gone.

* {{Narm}}: The old man's wildly contorting expressions of grief are either appropriately tragic and anguished or downright hilarious.

* IdiotPlot: [[DownplayedTrope While the movie as a whole is logically sound]] (mostly), the fact that it takes ''one and a half years'' for someone to come up with a method to scramble the monsters' one and only sense veers into this territory. Several InUniverse newspapers point out that the critters are extremely sensitive to sounds and loud noises, so a lot of people obviously knew about this before civilization collapsed, yet nobody got the idea to set up some big-ass loudspeakers, turn them UpToEleven and cycle through the frequency spectrum until they hit the ones that have a repelling effect? Worse, the acoustic feedback loop that eventually does the trick really isn't something special that requires sophisticated technology to create; everybody probably experienced it at least once in their lives by complete accident during a party, a concert or even with household appliances.

* WhatAnIdiot: For having survived almost two years the family does a lot of mistakes they should be aware of. Either the kids being too young to grasp the apocalypse or the parents too lenient to drive into their skull that monsters are no joke but someone is being an idiot.

* {{Narm}}:
** The old man's wildly contorting expressions of grief are either appropriately tragic and anguished or downright hilarious.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: For such a small budget, the visual effects for the monsters look fantastic. Given the visual effects company is Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic this isn’t surprising.

* WinTheCrowd: The teaser trailer's defiance of common horror {{cliche}}s (such as lots of {{Jump Scare}}s) and overall creativeness in its use of [[NothingIsScarier silence]] has people looking forward to seeing the final movie. The superbowl spot likewise helped the film gain some attention. The [[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_place_2018/ critical acclaim]] it has received thus far could also garner positive attention from audiences.

** The film is quite overly dependent on {{Jump Scare}}s, complete with ScareChord, until it just becomes annoying.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Marcus and Lee stumble across the mutilated corpse of an old woman, and an old man, presumably her husband, cries out in suicidal grief, allowing one of the creatures to kill him while Lee and Marcus hide and wait for it to move on. It's a harrowing scene, to be sure, but the old man and woman are never identified (Lee and Marcus show no sign of knowing them), the circumstances of her death are never explained, and it has no bearing whatsoever on either the characters or the plot.

** The film is quite overly dependent on {{Jump Scares}}, complete with ScareChord, until it just becomes annoying.

** The film is quite overly dependent on JumpScares, complete with ScareChord, until it just becomes annoying.

* {{Narm}}: The old man's wildly contorting expressions of grief are either appropriately tragic and anguished or downright hilarious.

** Fans of ''Series/TheOffice'' had a field day due to John Krasinski being the lead role, leading to mash-ups of the film and the series. The most common example being the pre-credits gag from Episode 11 of Season 8, ''Trivia''.

* InferredHolocaust: The general AfterTheEnd atmosphere implies that '''billions''' of people are dead, and it's unknown if civilization will ever be able to truly recover. Then again, even if 99 per cent of the populace is dead, that still leaves a lot of people and genetic diversity, and more to the point, the stupidest ones have been turned into crow food and the Earth has gotten a break from a lot of heavy pollution.

** ''Or'' it can be seen as a new take on ''Film/TheDeadlySpawn'', another film with a small group of people in an isolated farmhouse fending off eyeless, sound-sensitive aliens with lots of teeth who come to Earth via meteorites, just as a newspaper headline in ''A Quiet Place'' suggests its creatures got here.