A Quiet Place Part II: Cast, Plot, Ending and Where to Watch

The sequel starts before the first film's farm ever went quiet. On the day the creatures arrive, the Abbotts are watching a small town ball game when a bright object streaks across the sky, and the blind, armored hunters that follow go after every sound in earshot.

The story then skips forward. Lee and Beau are gone, and Evelyn is carrying a newborn while she walks Regan and Marcus away from the ruins of their home in search of anyone else still alive. Their one real weapon is Regan's discovery that the shrill feedback from her cochlear implant hurts the creatures. After a trap injures Marcus, the family ducks into an abandoned steel foundry and runs into Emmett, a neighbor who lost his own family and does not want company.

If you have not seen A Quiet Place (2018), the Abbotts' grief lands harder once you know how the farm story ended. The a quiet place movies in order guide shows where this film sits in the full run.

The full plot of A Quiet Place Part II splits the Abbotts into three groups, and each one fights a creature by the end. After the baseball game opening, the story picks up some time later with Evelyn, Regan, Marcus and the baby leaving their ruined home. Marcus is hurt in a trap and the family takes cover in a steel foundry occupied by Emmett, who lost his wife and sons and wants nothing to do with their problems.

A song repeating on the radio makes Regan think there are survivors on an island. She also believes that a broadcast of the high pitched sound from a radio station could turn the tide against the creatures. She sets off alone and is attacked, and Emmett rescues her and agrees to go with her.

Back at the foundry, Evelyn goes out for medical supplies while Marcus is left to guard the baby. He accidentally attracts a creature, so he hides himself and the baby in an airtight compartment.

At a marina, Emmett and Regan are ambushed by looters, and the chase shows that the creatures cannot swim. They reach the island, where the colony explains that an earlier evacuation failed because noise brought the creatures to the boats. A creature then arrives on a drifting boat and kills the colony's leader.

Regan reaches the radio station and broadcasts the signal, which disables the creature, and she finishes it with a metal rod. At the foundry, Evelyn gets back and saves her children, and Marcus uses a portable radio to weaken the creature that has found them before shooting it. Regan leaves her implant attached to the station microphone so the signal keeps playing for anyone listening.

A Quiet Place Part II opened in Australian theaters on May 27, 2021, in US theaters on May 28, 2021 and in UK theaters on June 4, 2021, according to Box Office Mojo. The Numbers files the film under a 2020 address, which is why listings split between 2020 and 2021, but all three theatrical dates fall in 2021.

No premiere date, city or venue has been reported for the film. The certifications are PG-13 in the US, 15 in the UK and M in Australia, and the runtime is 97 minutes.

As of November 3, 2026, TMDB (using JustWatch data) lists A Quiet Place Part II as streaming on Paramount Plus in the US and the UK. In Australia it is listed on Netflix, Paramount Plus and Stan. It can also be rented or bought on Apple TV, Amazon Video and YouTube in all three countries. Streaming lineups change often, so where to watch a quiet place keeps the current table.

The sequel is not the end of the story. Paramount's next main film is a quiet place part iii, which TheWrap reported in March 2026 as scheduled for July 30, 2027 (Krasinski gave the date). The a quiet place part iii trailer page will carry official footage when it arrives.

The ending of A Quiet Place Part II proves that the creatures can be beaten: the high pitched sound disables them, and both the island and foundry threats are killed. Regan finishes the island creature with a metal rod after her broadcast weakens it, and Marcus shoots the foundry creature after a portable radio does the same work. Both kills use the same weakness, which shows the signal works beyond a single lucky moment.

The last image matters more than the kills. Regan leaves her implant attached to the radio station microphone, so the signal keeps playing for anyone listening. That turns a personal weapon into a public one, and it pushes the saga from hiding toward a counterattack. Evelyn, Regan, Marcus and the baby are reunited and ready to fight back, and the finale sets up a wider effort to take on the invasion.

Is A Quiet Place 2 as good as the first? In my opinion, the sequel is the bigger film and A Quiet Place (2018) is the tighter one. The Abbott farm kept the stakes in one place, while splitting the family into three threads gives the sequel more set pieces (the marina chase is the best of them) and less claustrophobia. It could be argued that the foundry thread, with Marcus alone and the baby in an airtight compartment, is where the film comes closest to the first one's dread.

The spin-off A Quiet Place: Day One makes a useful third point of comparison. It spends its 100 minutes inside New York City with Sam, so it is a film about one crowded place, where Part II (97 minutes) is a film about moving between places. Day One shows the invasion from the street, while the sequel's opening shows it from a small town ball game, and the sequel is the only one of the three that ends on a plan to hit back.

The detail of what Part III does with this ending is unconfirmed. Krasinski is writing and directing the next main film, and TheWrap reported in March 2026 that Blunt, Murphy, Simmonds and Jupe are among its cast. For where the film lands against the rest of the saga, see a quiet place movies ranked.

No shooting location for A Quiet Place Part II has been confirmed by the studio or the trade press. What the film shows on screen is a small town baseball field, a wrecked farm, a steel foundry, a marina, an island colony and a radio station.

The Abbott farm itself belongs to A Quiet Place (2018), and the sequel starts by leaving it. Nothing confirms that the sequel returned to the same filming locations as the first film.

For how the creatures work and the rules the family lives by, see a quiet place rules and a quiet place creatures.

The most useful trivia about A Quiet Place Part II is in the numbers and the credits, because they show how the saga grew.

• The budget was $61 million, according to The Numbers, which is more than three times the budget of A Quiet Place (2018).
• Box Office Mojo reports $160 million domestically and about $298 million worldwide, compared with about $341 million worldwide for the first film.
• Krasinski wrote the screenplay, and Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are credited for the characters.
• Polly Morgan was the director of photography.
• The producers were Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and Krasinski.
• Djimon Hounsou plays the Man on Island here and Henri in a quiet place day one.
• At 97 minutes, the sequel runs six minutes longer than the 91 minute first film and three minutes shorter than the 100 minute spin-off.

The sequel earned less than the first on a budget more than three times larger. The full ledger is in the a quiet place box office breakdown, and the order to watch the films in is covered in the a quiet place timeline.