A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
Directed by Michael Sarnoski
Written by Michael Sarnoski
Starring Lupita N'Yongo, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou
Release Date June 28th, 2024
Published July 5th, 2024
Lupita N'Yongo stars in A Quiet Place: Day One as Sam, a woman dying from cancer. Sam is in a hospice facility where she expresses her frustration over dying in angry, expletive laden, poetry that serves as a way of pushing her nurse, Reuben (Alex Wolff), not to call on her during the support group. Reuben kicks the plot into gear by promising Sam that she can get pizza in New York City if she agrees to join the group trip to a show, somewhere in the City.
Turns out, Reuben has arranged for the patients to attend a puppet show. To say that Sam is not amused is an understatement. She leaves mid-show, along with her emotional support cat, Frodo, and goes to get candy at a nearby store. It is while Sam is in the store that an alien invasion begins. Monsters are burning down from the sky and attacking people, seemingly at random. As this happens, it slowly becomes clear that these aliens are attacking the loudest things around them.
Find my full length review at Horror.Media, linked here.
