{"id":31547,"date":"2018-04-07T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31547"},"modified":"2018-04-07T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T16:20:35","slug":"review-of-a-quiet-place-in-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/review-of-a-quiet-place-in-the-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of “A Quiet Place” in The Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Kevin Turinsky, who writes:<\/p>\n

Just spotted a curious radio stack in an upcoming movie reviewed by The Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Take a look:<\/p>\n

\u201cA Quiet Place\u201d is high-concept horror at its best<\/h3>\n

John Krasinski transforms a B-movie conceit into a smart, nerve-shredding film<\/strong><\/p>\n

IN MOST cinemas, films are preceded by a polite request that patrons switch off their mobile phones. Wherever \u201cA Quiet Place\u201d is shown, that request should be upgraded to a legal requirement and transgressors should be frogmarched from the building. There is so little dialogue in this nerve-shredding post-apocalyptic survival chiller that it almost counts as a silent movie, and yet sound has rarely been more crucial to a story. The ingenious high-concept is that bloodthirsty, presumably alien, monsters have butchered most of humanity, but these near-indestructible crab-creatures are sightless so track their quarry using their super-sensitive ears. Silence, therefore, is more than golden. If somebody drops a cup or sneezes, they might well be punished with a foot-long claw through the belly, so any viewer who breaks the spell by letting their phone ring deserves a similar, if not so extreme, punishment.[…]<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full review at The Economist online.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for the tip, Kevin! That screen shot at the top of the post contains so many radio sets–including a lovely Zenith Transoceanic!<\/p>\n

William first reported this film a couple weeks ago here on the Post<\/em><\/a>. I watched the trailer and it does seem to be rather suspenseful. Perhaps a new take on the zombie genre. I imagine there are no small number of radios to be spotted in A Quiet Place<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Thanks again, Kevin!<\/p>\n

Have any readers watched the film yet? Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kevin Turinsky, who writes: Just spotted a curious radio stack in an upcoming movie reviewed by The Economist: Take a look: \u201cA Quiet Place\u201d is high-concept horror at its best John Krasinski transforms a B-movie conceit into a smart, nerve-shredding film IN MOST cinemas, films are preceded by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305],"tags":[6908,6953,5506],"class_list":["post-31547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-a-quiet-place","tag-kevin-turinsky","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8cP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30342,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/radio-deal-c-crane-ccradio-2-at-npr-shop\/","url_meta":{"origin":31547,"position":0},"title":"Radio Deal: C. 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