#A QUIET PLACE MONSTER MOVIE#

We all know how well this movie worked-I’m wondering if you can share some ideas that were thrown around regarding the sound design that you didn’t end up using? Or, short of that, if you can share some of the aspects of the sound design that would surprise folks who might figure there wasn’t much for you two to do (any seasoned film lover would know your job was actually much, much more involved b/c of this concept).Ĭreating the sound for the film was a very experimental and explorative process. Soon after, we met with director John Krasinski and before we could say anything, John exclaimed: “this is a sound designer’s dream!” We knew then this would be an incredible collaboration. Sound was baked into the DNA of this story and script. We were first contacted by producer Andrew Form, who told us “I know you hear this all the time, but this movie is all about sound.” Any skepticism we may have had vanished when we read the script. What was your reaction when you first heard the concept, and how excited were you to tackle this?

You’re the sound duo for a film that’s now iconic for creating an environment in which no one can make a peep if they want to live. They answered in tandem, befitting their close-knit working relationship. Now that‘s how you open a monster movie.Īadahl and Van Der Ryn spoke to us about the challenges of taking on a film built around a premise of “silence saves lives,” and how they used their years of experience to give audiences the delicious experience of being afraid of their own breath. The film opens (extremely belated spoiler alert) with the third and youngest child, Beau (Cade Woodward) playing with a toy that ends up making some noise-and that’s all it takes-in an instant, one of the blind alien monsters with the exceptionally advanced hearing apparatus swoops in and kills the kid. We see the effects of what happens when you make a peep through the lens of a single family, the Abbots-pregnant mom Evelyn (a sensational Emily Blunt), Lee (Krasinski) and their two children, Regan ( Millicent Simmonds) and Marcus (Noah Jupe). Of course, there is sound in A Quiet Place, and it always leads to trouble. Only in this world, if you make a sound you’ll suffer a fate far worse than the annoyance of your fellow train passengers. John Krasinski’s thrilling, chilling A Quiet Place was predicated on a brilliant idea alien monsters have turned the planet into one giant Amtrak quiet car. Supervising sound editors Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van Der Ryn had the unusual challenge of applying their expertise to a film that would be so quiet, it had the word in its title.

A quiet place monster