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Apocalyptic horror film “A Quiet Place: Day One” has set a new benchmark as the franchise’s biggest opening weekend, amassing an impressive global tally of $98.5 million. The film has also made significant waves locally, achieving the second biggest opening weekend in the Philippines for 2024.

This third installment of the “A Quiet Place” series transports audiences back to the moment when the world fell silent, using the bustling cityscape of New York as its backdrop. Here, the metropolis comes to a standstill as hostile creatures attack anything that makes noise, adding a fresh layer of tension to the narrative.

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IGN has lauded “A Quiet Place: Day One” as the finest in the series, stating, “It’s impressive just how great ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ is. Not that the first two ‘Quiet Place’ movies weren’t good – they’re both strong films in their own right. But this spinoff/prequel to those earlier films introduces new characters in a new setting that successfully elevates both the tension and the emotional impact of John Krasinski’s nearly dialogue-free horror films. The result is the series’ best movie to date.”

The Guardian echoes this sentiment, praising the film’s cast and setting. “It could be the idea of setting the ‘Quiet Place’ prequel in New York, one of the noisiest places on Earth. Or perhaps it’s because the intimate, taut horror premise of the first two pictures is beefed up with some robust city-smashing disaster movie muscle. Maybe it’s the casting of the always excellent Lupita Nyong’o in a textured and complex role – she plays Sam, a poet and a terminal cancer patient who just wants to live a little before she dies. All of this combines to ramp up the impact of ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ considerably, compared with its immediate predecessor.”

The Los Angeles Times highlights the film’s unique premise, remarking, “It’s a refreshing, near-radical concept to build a studio film around, and as Sam sets off, a tote bag on her arm and her black-and-white support cat Frodo beside her, you may be reminded of that other woman-and-feline survival story, ‘Alien,’ stripped to the bone.”

Don’t miss out on the spine-tingling thrills as “A Quiet Place: Day One” is now showing in Philippine cinemas.