You’ve got something very sparse where every little detail becomes magnified because there isn’t just this bed of noise all around it. Counter-intuitively, a quiet film can be hard, if not harder, because you don’t have a cloak of sound to hide behind. “Audiences assume that movies with lots of sound are the hardest to do,” said supervising sound editor Erik Aadahl (“Transformers: The Last Knight”). Read More: ‘A Quiet Place’: John Krasinski Wasn’t a Horror Fan, But He’s Resetting His Directing Career With An Ambitious Scary Movie (Spoiler Alert: We divulge plot points involving the creatures.) So it’s not surprising that much of the movie’s success is wrapped around the brilliant sound design (a sure Oscar contender) in concert with Marco Beltrami’s menacing score.

Make a loud noise and the creatures will pounce and kill you. Indeed, John Krasinski’s horror hit is all about sound and makes brilliant use of silence as a storytelling device.Īnd all the better in Dolby Atmos, in which we become totally immersed in the sonic terror. Like last year’s Oscar-winning “Dunkirk,” “ A Quiet Place” offers a unique soundscape that drives the propulsive narrative.

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