A Quiet Place director and star John Krasinski recently confirmed the creatures seen in the movie aren't of this world.
The film follows a family trying to survive in the wake of an invasion of monsters who hunt by sound; to stay alive, the family virtually live in total silence. The monsters seen in the movie are freakish creatures gifted with hypersensitive hearing, but while the story drops hints about what they could be and where they could be from, the creatures' origins ultimately remain mysterious.
In an interview with
Empire,
A Quiet Place writer, director and actor John Krasinski confirmed the origins of the monsters, and detailed the logic behind their design.
They’re definitely aliens. They’re an evolutionary perfect machine. The idea is if they grew up on a planet that had no humans and no light, then they don’t need eyes, they can only hunt by sound. They also develop a way to protect themselves from everything else – that’s why they’re bulletproof.
The other idea was it’s also the reason why they were able to survive an explosion on their planet and then survive on these meteorites. Until they open themselves up to be vulnerable, they’re completely invulnerable.
A Quiet Place's success essentially guarantees a sequel will one day arrive, and with writers Bryan Woods and Scott Beck claiming to have lots of ideas for a potential follow-up, it'll be interesting to see how the story evolves. Perhaps we'll learn even more about the creatures' origins in a future follow-up film.
What do you think about the intelligent design of the film's aliens? Did you have a different interpretation? Would you like to know more about the creatures, or rather the opposite?