‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Set to Return This Labor Day

With the release of "A Quiet Place: Part II" being delayed until an unspecified date later this year due to the coronavirus crisis, there is a sudden dent in movie-goers watch lists.

The first instalment of "A Quiet Place," starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski (who was also director), was excellent and beloved not just for its great horror scares and lashings of suspense, but also for its underlying family drama and its inclusion of deaf people as main characters. "A Quiet Place: Part II" was one of the most hotly-anticipated releases of the year, but we sadly now have to wait to see it.

However, Netflix can plug the hole that Krasinski's film has left — and not just on the horror side of things, either. Indeed, while Netflix have great horrors similar to "A Quiet Place," the streaming service also has dramas about parenthood and films featuring deaf characters available, too.

As you might imagine with something called A Quiet Place, plot details are hush-hush. But if the original grappled with What would you do for your kids?, the sequel becomes about those kids growing up. Returning as Evelyn’s deaf and resilient daughter Regan, Millicent Simmonds, 17, takes more of a leading role, stepping into — spoiler alert! — the void left in the wake of Lee’s death at the end of the first film. (He appears in flashbacks in Part II.)

The monsters still roam, but the Abbotts must tiptoe beyond their now-destroyed home. The outside world is something Krasinski hinted at in the first film when the characters spot multiple fires in the distance. “Even not knowing there would be a sequel, I just thought we have to let people know that there are other people alive,” he says.

Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders) and Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy) play two of those survivors. Murphy’s grizzled appearance suggests his character took a very different path in the apocalypse from the Abbotts’. “[Our] family has support, they have an entire system of living, and most importantly, they have love,” Krasinski notes. “If you are alone and you’ve seen the negative effect of the world, you lose hope.”