
Our Brothers Grimmest
Book
Celebrating the absurd with mock-tabloid satire, GrimmReport.com marries the reality of everyday...

Pinoy Big Brother
YouTube Channel
The official YouTube channel of Pinoy Big Brother. A popular franchise which originated from the...

Awaken Online: Apathy (Side Quest)
Book
A side quest adventure in the best-selling world of Awaken Online! Eliza's parents are relentless...

Black Seconds (Inspector Konrad Sejer #6)
Book
Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is...
Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Unknown
Cameron Dokey, Grant Wilson and Jason Hawes
Book
An exciting new middle grade collection of spooky paranormal investigations based on REAL ghost...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
Video Game
In this game Buffy discovers that Ethan Rayne is at the center of a great struggle with the First,...

The Rain Heron
Book
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested...
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David McK (3600 KP) rated A Quiet Place (2018) in Movies
Aug 23, 2020 (Updated Jan 10, 2023)
They lied.
Slow, plodding, and lacking any sense of peril or tension, this is set in a post-apocalyptic world where seemingly invulnerable blind monsters (which we're never told where they come from) hunt by sound, and sound alone - which explains why there's not even any bird song. This then follows a tight-knit family trying to survive in this new reality, complete with a deaf kid and a mother about to give birth.
Yes, all the cliches are here: creaking floorboards, jagged nails sticking up from the wood, a kid who blames herself for the loss of her younger sibling early on in the film ...
About the only good thing I can say is that this is short, with a running time of just over 1.5 hours.

Bitroux: High Country
Book
If Merouac ever thought his life’s work would culminate in leading the metal workshops of the...
Science Fiction