A Quiet Place Reviews: Our Verdict on Every Film

Our A Quiet Place reviews recommend all three films, and the one I would hand a newcomer first is A Quiet Place (2018), directed by John Krasinski. Every verdict below is opinion, built on what the films do on screen and on the production record. Creature design is my slant, so the monsters carry a lot of weight in what follows.

A percentage cannot tell you whether a silent siege story suits your evening, so each verdict here is short, picks a side, and says who the film is for.

A Quiet Place (2018) is the film to start with, and it runs 91 minutes and wastes very little of them. The Abbott family (Emily Blunt as Evelyn, Krasinski as Lee, Millicent Simmonds as Regan and Noah Jupe as Marcus) lives on an isolated farm in New York and speaks in American Sign Language, because sightless creatures with extremely sharp hearing hunt anything that makes noise. The opening sequence, in which young Beau (Cade Woodward) switches on a noisy toy, teaches you the rule and its price in a single scene. In my opinion, that is the smartest thing the film does: it punishes the broken rule before you have time to doubt it, so every creak afterward counts as a threat.

The craft backs up the premise. The film was shot on 35mm, the silo was filmed practically, and ILM and Scott Farrar handled the creature work. The shoot used 24 acres of corn around its New York locations in Pawling, New Paltz and Little Falls. Verdict: strongly recommended, and the right place to begin. If the family itself hooks you, Evelyn Abbott is the best next stop.

No, in my opinion A Quiet Place Part II (2021), also directed by Krasinski, is a confident sequel that does not beat the original. It opens on the first day of the invasion at a small town baseball game, when the sky lights up with a falling object, and then jumps ahead to Evelyn, Regan, Marcus and a newborn baby leaving their wrecked farm to look for survivors. Marcus is hurt in a trap, and the group shelters in an old steel foundry, where they meet Emmett (Cillian Murphy), a neighbor who lost his own family.

The baseball game is the best set piece in the sequel, and Simmonds and Jupe carry more of the film than before, which works. The larger map, however, costs some of the claustrophobia that made the farm so effective, and I miss it. The film runs 97 minutes, cost $61 million and took about $298 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo, which is less than its predecessor on a budget more than three times higher. Verdict: recommended, best watched straight after the first film.

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), directed by Michael Sarnoski, is the spinoff prequel and the entry that most changes the pitch. Sam (Lupita Nyong'o) is a terminally ill cancer patient in a hospice outside New York City, living with her service cat, Frodo. A nurse named Reuben (Alex Wolff) persuades her to join a group trip into Manhattan to see a marionette show, the creatures crash in while they are there, and an exploding ambulance knocks Sam out. She wakes in the puppet theater among other survivors, and Joseph Quinn's Eric is one of the faces in her new, frightened world.

The production built its sets at Leavesden, redressed Chinatown as Harlem, and used ILM for just over 400 visual effects shots. Two real cats shared the role of Frodo, and Sarnoski has said there is no CG cat in the film, which is a fitting touch for a series about restraint. The soundtrack uses Nina Simone's Feeling Good, and the score is by Alexis Grapsas rather than Marco Beltrami. Where the farm films are about parents protecting children, Day One trades tight rules for the roar of a crowded city, and it is the most character driven of the three. Perhaps it lacks the original's clean sting, but Nyong'o carries it, and I would recommend it at 100 minutes.

On the numbers, A Quiet Place is a hit. The 2018 original turned a $17 million budget into about $341 million worldwide, roughly twenty times its cost, according to Box Office Mojo. Part II took about $298 million on $61 million, and Day One took about $262 million on $67 million, so the two follow ups earned roughly five and four times their budgets. For a horror series in which half the runtime is whispering, that is a healthy record, and the full breakdown sits on the A Quiet Place box office page.

A Quiet Place Part III sits outside our verdicts for now, because it has not been released. It is in production with a US release date of July 30, 2027, according to TheWrap, after Variety Australia reported an earlier date of July 9, 2027. Krasinski is writing, directing and producing, and the reported cast includes Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Jack O'Connell, Jason Clarke and Katy O'Brian. Any footage will appear on the A Quiet Place Part III trailer page, and a review will follow once the film is out.

Watch A Quiet Place (2018) first, then Part II, and treat Day One as either an opening act or a dessert course depending on your taste. The A Quiet Place movies in order page lays out both the release order and the chronological order, and the A Quiet Place movies ranked page puts all three in a single list. As of November 3, 2026, the first two films stream on Paramount Plus in the US and on Netflix in Australia, and Day One streams on Netflix in the US, according to TMDB data from JustWatch (see where to watch A Quiet Place for every country).

If you want fear built from silence and a family you care about, the 2018 film is the answer, and it is the one I would pick if you only have a single night. If you would rather have a city and a lead with something personal at stake, go straight to Day One, and keep the creatures and the survival rules in mind as you watch. The score and soundtrack details are on the A Quiet Place soundtrack page, and the full A Quiet Place cast and A Quiet Place characters pages cover who is who. The A Quiet Place movies hub has everything else.