We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoWe are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video★★★★★You’ll need a lie-down after this one. It’s the scariest film I’ve seen in years, with a devastatingly simple premise, truly horrible monsters, genuine emotional oomph and a climax that adds jeopardy to jeopardy like weights on a barbell, to the point that you’re not sure if your heart can take any more. A big reason why John Krasinski’s film — part horror, part family fable — hits so hard is that, as the title suggests, it’s really, really quiet. It imagines a near future where much of humanity has been wiped out by murderous beasts (think a cubist’s nightmare of the xenomorph in Alien). They’re blind, but they have supernatural hearing, which means that the credo for survivors is, as one old newspaper headline puts…

Source: The Times April 05, 2018 16:07 UTC