Diving back inside the bunker, Marcus shuts himself and the baby inside the furnace where they are protected. He discovers the corpse of what is presumably Emmett’s wife, is startled, knocks something over, and attracts a creature. Exactly what Marcus is looking for is not 100 percent clear-this is perhaps an incidence of a ‘he needs to venture out of the bunker for plot reasons’ and just leave it at that. Though Evelyn has promised she’ll only be gone a couple of hours, Marcus is anxious and ventures out of the bunker to look around, leaving the baby in the box with the oxygen mask. He’s a nervous kid and his injury doesn’t help. Left behind when Evelyn goes to the chemist for supplies to treat Marcus’s leg, Marcus is charged with taking care of the baby. It’s a race against time for Regan to set up the broadcast with her hearing aid without being killed by the creature and Emmett is there to help… Marcus and the Baby It attacks and kills many of the islanders (including Djimon Hounsou’s character, who with Emmett and Regan attempts to lure the creature away from the community, by driving to the radio transmission tower honking his horn). One of the boats the creatures attacked back on the mainland has drifted out to the island with a creature on board. The Best Creepy Horror Movies By Sarah Dobbs and 1 other There they find an idyllic community-the creatures can’t swim so the island is protected. The boat people are killed but Emmett and Regan survive, with Regan’s hearing aid intact. This lot seem to have taken the invasion really badly and have become feral, attacking Regan and Emmett and attempting to rob, and possibly kidnap, Regan.īut Emmett signs to Regan to dive into the marina while he attracts the attention of the creatures, causing carnage and havoc. Not by creatures this time but by humans living in the marina. As the two approach the dock where they plan to steal a boat they are attacked. But when he finds Regan, she refuses to return, berating him for being less noble than her father. When Evelyn discovers her daughter is missing she implores Emmett to bring her back. Marcus is badly hurt, so can’t go with her, and though he begs her to stay, she goes alone.
She plans to walk to the coast, find a boat, and sail out there, taking her hearing aid and amp with a view to broadcast the frequency out on the radio and incapacitate the creatures wherever the station is tuned in. Though Emmett insists it’s nothing, Regan works out that it’s actually a message and the signal is coming from an island. Rather it’s a smart continuation of the family’s journey and a look at how the world has evolved since the initial invasion (we begin with a flashback to day one) with an ending that mirrors the end of the first A Quiet Place.Īt Emmett’s place, Regan gets a signal on the radio-it’s the song “Beyond The Sea” By Bobby Darin playing on a loop.
It’s a smart move: not only does it keep the audience in a constant state of anxiety worrying about what’s going to happen to one party or another, but it also marks the movie out as significantly different to the first film.Ī Quiet Place Part II doesn’t feel like a ‘same again’ cash in. With Marcus’s leg severely injured by Emmett’s bear trap, Evelyn needs to find medical supplies to stop the wound from getting infected, thus leading to a plot structure which sees three separate groups (Marcus and the baby, Regan and Emmett, and Evelyn on her own) experiencing different kinds of peril concurrently. Before long they find Cillian Murphy’s Emmett, a man ravaged by tragedy and who needs coaxing back from his enforced isolation-which happens after he is forced to embark on a mission with Regan. Picking up the morning after the first film ended, Evelyn ( Emily Blunt), Regan (Millicent Simmonds), and Marcus (Noah Jupe), with the new born baby who they keep in a box, have to abandon their destroyed farmstead and head into the world looking for other signs of life. But now A Quiet Place Part II has finally arrived on the big screen and it’s a noisier, more action-packed offering than the last.
John Krasinski’s follow up to his breakout horror hit A Quiet Place was due to hit cinemas in March last year, before COVID hit and took out the cinemas with it.
Contains major spoilers for A Quiet Place Part II.