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Honest Trailer - A Quiet Place

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A Quiet Place is the 254th episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr and Dan Murrell. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies 2018 American horror film A Quiet Place. It was published on July 17, 2018 to coincide with the release of the film on home video and Blu-ray. It is 4 minutes 15 seconds long. It has been viewed over 2.2 million times. It features the American Sign Language interpreter Brian Day Carr, who narrates the script through sign language.

Watch Honest Trailers - A Quiet Place on YouTube

"It's every dad's paradise, where a father of three children can finally get some peace and quiet, with plenty of time for fishing, farm-to-table meals, and a man cave full of TVs that your kids are not allowed to enter." ~ Honest Trailers - A Quiet Place

Script[]

In a world full of loud movies (plays clips from Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Rampage), starring loud people... (plays clips from Network and Logan)

Leonidas (300): --SPARTA!! (kicks Xerxes' messenger into a well)

...played to theaters full of loud fans (shows an audience wearing Ghostface costumes cheering while watching the in-universe film Stab in Scream 2), one premise will shock and horrify the modern audience... (plays clips from Psycho (1960) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003))

Arnold (Troll 2): Oh my GOOOOOOOOOOOO--

...having to shut... the f*ck... up. (shows Lee covering Marcus' mouth while keeping silent) (sotto voce) Ahh, that's better...

A Quiet Place

Psst! Hey, can we get an Epic ASL Guy to help me out here? (Brian Carr suddenly appears in the bottom-right corner and waves, ready to translate) Perfect.

Explore the near-future of A Quiet Place; on one hand, it's a dystopia where blind aliens kill anyone who makes a sound (shows Beau getting killed by an alien after his toy Space Shuttle makes a noise), but on the other, it's every dad's paradise, where a father of three children can finally get some peace and quiet, with plenty of time for fishing, farm-to-table meals, and a man cave full of TVs that your kids are not allowed to enter.

Lee: (to Regan, signing) You cannot go down there!

Hey, psst. Hey, dude. Can we, like, trade lives? Please?

Watch The Office's John Krasinksi prove he's more than just a pretty Jim face (shows Krasinski as Jim Halpert on The Office (US)), but a wide range of pretty Jim faces, with support from real-life wife Emily Blunt, the most badass female character that's also barefoot, pregnant, and not allowed to speak. But it's behind the camera where JK really shines, as he makes a directing debut that's one part Ridley Scott (shots comparing the aliens to the Xenomorphs in Alien: Covenant), one part James Cameron Titanic references (?) (shots comparing a bloody hand hitting Lee's window to Rose DeWitt hitting the window of a 1912 Renault CB Coupe de Ville while having sex with Jack Dawson in Titanic), and six parts Tarantino foot shots. (montage of bare feet throughout the film, set to a riff on Dick Dale's "Misirlou", followed by Evelyn accidentally stepping on an exposed nail) AHH! Oh...! Sorry; haven't yelled like that since Marv in Home Alone. (shows Marv Murchins stepping on an exposed nail and screaming in pain in Home Alone)

Prepare for an awesome original horror movie premise... as long as you don't think too hard about it, where everyone always looks like they're holding in a fart, because a fart or burp or sneeze would equal death; where footsteps are too loud, but snapping your fingers is fine; and where this waterfall lets you be as noisy as you want...

Lee: (standing under the waterfall) WHOOOOO!!

(normally) ...but they don't just live next to the waterfall?! I mean, come on! Don't even get me started on the ending and military-grade sonic weaponry! (shows Regan holding her hearing implant up to a microphone, with its feedback causing an alien to stagger in pain) The government's already developing it under the Denver Airport! (a blog post with the title "Denver Airport: A Secret Illuminati Hub?" pops up)

(sotto voce) So if you love survival horror movies, and feature-length ASMR videos, strap in -- but carefully, 'cause the straps can get, like, really noisy -- for a film that started its life as a potential Cloverfield sequel, but in the capable hands of Big Tuna, became a really solid one-off film. (an article with the title "A Quiet Place 2 Confirmed" pops up) I mean, come on; we don't need a sequel, unless it's, like, a super-quiet Aliens. (whispering) Game over, man! Game over!

Starring: Dunder Mufflin' (John Krasinski as Lee Abbott); Shhhicario (Emily Blunt as Evelyn Abbott); Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! (Cade Woodward as Beau Abbott) (shows Beau's death scene again); Literally Turning It to 11 (Millicent Simmonds as Regan Abbott); Aural Coral (Noah Jupe as Marcus Abbott); Chekhov's Nail (shows an exposed nail on a wooden staircase that Evelyn will step on); The Same Aliens as After Earth, Only They Sense Sound Instead of Fear... Did Anyone Else See After Earth? (shots comparing the aliens in this film to the Ursas in After Earth); Rocket, Nooo! (shows a raccoon getting crushed by an alien); and Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (montage of characters making the "Shh!" gesture).

The Quiet Game

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Honest title for A Quiet Place- The Quiet Game. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.

(shows Regan making progress in a game of Monopoly, only to accidentally knock over a lantern, causing it to shatter and set fire to a rug) This is a good reminder that Monopoly sucks and will get you killed in the Apocalypse; as if you ever needed another reason not to play Monopoly, right? Hey, thanks for helping out, Epic ASL Guy.

Brian Carr: (signing) F*ck you.

I'm... just going to pretend that means "You're welcome."

Trivia []

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Honest Trailers Commentary - A Quiet Place

  • Jon Bailey delivered most of the narration in a whisper.
  • Interpreter Brian Carr joined the writers for the Honest Trailer commentary where he noted that some aspects of the original script were untranslatable into American Sign Language (ASL). Carr found the pacing of the narration incredibly challenging. The frame rate on his video had to sped up to match Jon Bailey's speaking speed. Carr was also hampered by some ASL conventions, such as needing to spelling out proper nouns.
  • This video features the running Alan raptor gag. The raptor can be seen at 0:15 sitting quietly in the theater.
  • This video expands on the fictional character of Epic Voice Guy, who declares that John Krasinski's lifestyle in this film is every Dad's dream replete with plenty of time fishing, a man cave and some much needed peace and quiet.
  • Some other Honest Trailers have utilized language translation for humorous effect, including Moana which featured a parody song sung in Tokelauan, and Transformers: Age of Extinction, which was partially translated into Chinese in reference to the film pandering to the Chinese market.
  • Screen Junkies have produced Honest Trailers for several other horror films including Bird Box, Get Out, The Conjuring, The Purge, The Blair Witch Project, It (2017), Halloween (1978) and Halloween (2018). See list of Honest Trailers for more.

Watch the full commentary on YouTube

Reception[]

Honest Trailers - A Quiet Place has a 98.4% approval rating from YouTube viewers. ScreenRant praised Jon Bailey's "uncharacteristically toned down" voiceover, and the way the writers pitched "this scary new world as a father’s dream." Slate also highlighted Bailey's whispered narration, the use of an ASL interpreter, and the Screen Junkies' criticism of the film's internal logic. Likewise, CinemaBlend appreciated Honest Trailer for using an ASL interpreter, and "highlighting some of the film's sillier aspects" including "inconsistencies with the decibel level required to alert the creatures." In contrast, Slashfilm suggested that the Honest Trailer's comment about the characters moving next to the waterfall was unfair, but did note that Screen Junkies had a difficult task when writing this Honest Trailer because "it’s hard to mock much about such an impressively, meticulously crafted sci-fi horror thriller."

Production credits[]

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Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers - A Quiet Place

Voiceover Narration by Jon Bailey

Title design by Robert Holtby

Producers - Max Dionne, Dan Murrell, Spencer Gilbert & Joe Starr

Written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr and Dan Murrell

Edited by Kevin Williamsen and TJ Nordaker

Post-Production Supervisor: Gracie Hartmann

Post-Production Coordinator: Carolyn Croce

Assistant Editor: Emin Bassavand

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