A Quiet Place Movies in Order: Release and Chronological Order

The release order for A Quiet Place is A Quiet Place (2018), A Quiet Place Part II (2021) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), which is the order in which audiences first met each film. If you want the story as the filmmakers rolled it out, this is the list to follow.

1. A Quiet Place (2018), directed by John Krasinski, US release April 6, 2018, 91 minutes
2. A Quiet Place Part II (2021), directed by John Krasinski, US release May 28, 2021, 97 minutes
3. A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), directed by Michael Sarnoski, US release June 28, 2024, 100 minutes

A Quiet Place (2018) is where the Abbott family begins. Emily Blunt plays Evelyn Abbott and John Krasinski plays Lee Abbott, with Millicent Simmonds as Regan Abbott and Noah Jupe as Marcus Abbott. Sightless creatures with extremely sharp hearing have taken over the world and hunt anything that makes noise, so the family survives on an isolated farm in New York by staying silent and talking in American Sign Language. A young son, Beau, is killed after he switches on a noisy toy, and Evelyn is expecting a baby, which hangs over everything that follows.

A Quiet Place Part II is a direct sequel, again directed by Krasinski. It opens on the first day of the invasion at a small town baseball game, then jumps ahead to Evelyn, Regan, Marcus and a newborn baby leaving their wrecked farm to look for other survivors. When Marcus is hurt in a trap, the group shelters in an old steel foundry and meets Emmett, played by Cillian Murphy, a neighbor who lost his own family.

A Quiet Place: Day One is the spinoff prequel, and it changes both the director and the cast. Michael Sarnoski directs Lupita Nyong'o as Samira (called Sam) and Joseph Quinn as Eric. Sam is a terminally ill cancer patient in a hospice just outside New York City, and she joins a group trip into Manhattan with her service cat, Frodo, only for the creatures to crash into the city. Djimon Hounsou appears in both Part II and Day One, though as different characters (the Man on Island in Part II and Henri in Day One).

The next entry is A Quiet Place Part III, with Krasinski writing, directing and producing. It is reported for July 30, 2027 and would take fourth place in release order.

In my opinion, the best place to start is A Quiet Place (2018), followed by Part II, with Day One saved for third even though it comes first on the timeline. The first film teaches you the rules, which are that sound draws the creatures and that the Abbotts survive through silence and sign language, and every later film leans on that knowledge.

So, why not simply follow the chronology? Because Day One shows the invasion itself as it hits Manhattan, and it could be argued that this takes some of the edge off the 2018 film, which is built around one family on one farm. Think of it like a television series where the origin episode lands best after you have met the cast. That being said, there is a fair case the other way: Day One follows new characters, Sam and Eric, so nothing from the earlier films is needed to follow its setup, and it works as a standalone first watch if you only want a single evening of dread.

Part II is the one film I would not reorder or skip, since it continues straight from A Quiet Place (2018) and introduces Emmett. Looking ahead, TheWrap reports that Emily Blunt and Cillian Murphy are joining the cast of A Quiet Place Part III, so perhaps the Abbott storyline carries on from Part II. That is my reading of the casting, not a confirmed plot.

If you are new, press play on A Quiet Place (2018) tonight, move to Part II, and finish with Day One. In the US, all three films are listed on Paramount Plus as of November 3, 2026, according to TMDB's JustWatch data, and our where to watch A Quiet Place guide covers the UK and Australia.