"A QUIET PLACE".......SHHHHHHHH...........

A Quiet Place (2018)   Number One rule if you care to surrender yourself to this movie and enjoy every grisly, tense moment of it..........

                    Don't ponder it. At all.

                    Just swallow and totally believe the movie's mythology........without thinking.

                    That may sound strange coming from us, but it's really the only way you're going to extract the popcorn-muchin' fun this movie so obviously wants you to have........

                    You either buy into the premise........(a lone family ekes out a terrifying post-apocalyptic existence living among monstrous, predatory blind alien creatures who hone in on their prey by sound alone.....).........or you don't.

                    To put it simply, you have to believe in this movie much the same way that the hypnotized Trumpanzees believe all the horseshit Dear Leader feeds them at their red-hat Nuremberg rallies......

                    If you're willing to go with it, "A Quiet Place" becomes a spiffy little rollercoaster ride through hell.......a stunning exercise in what Hitchcock often dreamed of attaining.......pure cinema, almost completely undiluted by explanatory dialogue.

                   Our favorite thing about it.........as soon as you've comprehended the premise set up by the movie, you immediately start imaging every horrible thing that could possibly go wrong.

                   And bless its nasty little heart, the movie delivers on all those moments, one after the other.

                    For lovers of disgusting evil sci-fi alien monsters, how can you not fall in love the creatures here.......with no eyes, rows of giant sharp teeth.......and one big-ass eardrum that looks like a sub-woofer from a Metallica concert.

                    No plot particulars will we dwell on here.........you need turn out the lights and experience it all for yourself.  Let's leave it at this.....for horror-sci-fi fans, it's the most gripping 90 minutes you'll treat yourself to this year.

                   Before we go, BQ bows down to director-actor John Krasinski, his wife Emily Blunt and to deaf child actress Millicent Simmonds........for putting together this 4 star gem (****)......reminding us of what movies do best........regale us with the tallest of tales and for a moment in time, make us believe it.