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Jun 1, 2021 · Speaking on the Empire podcast in April 2018, Krasinski revealed the Quiet Place monsters origins, confirming that they are indeed aliens: “They are absolutely aliens. They’re from another...
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The Death Angels are the main antagonists of the A Quiet Place film series.
They're arrived on Earth through what humans refer to as an invasion inside a meteorite, emerged and started attacking anything that makes even the faintest and the slightest noise. Death Angels are a hostile and ferocious species of super-evolved extraterrestrial predators that arrived on Earth on an asteroid that landed on its surface, and have since begun eliminating almost all life in America and almost entire Earth. They kill anything and everything that makes slightest noise, assisted by a sense of acute hearing far beyond anything produced on Earth. This, combined with their indestructible armor, allowed them to massacre most sapient life on the planet, including a sizable portion of humanity, subsequently causing society to crumble and collapse.
According to John Krasinski, the director of the movies, the creatures originated on a lightless planet in a faraway galaxy, a hell world with much harsher conditions and higher gravity than Earth. This pushed their evolution to develop features such as relying on echolocation instead of sight, possessing impenetrably hard armor, and greater strength in Earth's gravity. Their armor is so tough it can resist all kind of conventional human weaponry, from small firearms such as a shotguns to missiles, and even bombs and fire. They can destroy steel and any hard object. Due to the tradeoffs of these features, however, they are completely blind — and their dense armor and musculature is so heavy that they cannot swim in water.
The creatures are slightly taller than a human, with overall proportions that are lithe and lean. Their body posture vaguely resembles a cross between a gorilla and a flightless bat: all four of their limbs are digitigrade, walking on their knuckles, with arms drastically larger than their legs — resulting in them usually running on all four limbs but capable of rearing up to attack or jump large distances. Due to their claws and great strength, they are very adept at climbing on walls, windows and also glass panel. They also able to run extremely fast with 300mph speed. Their claws are very sharp which able to slash their preys, which can kills them instantly or cause the victim suffers serious injury.
Their head features a large jaw filled with sharp teeth, and no eyes, it is unclear how they able to attack the target accurately despite they're blind. With no apparent nose, it is unclear if they possess any sense of smell, or if smell perception is achieved through sense organs in the mouth. The entire head is externally composed of ears inside and multiple sections of armor plates outside that protected their ears and flesh from any weapons. Their armor plates can be held open if they want to listen more closely for prey or detect the sound — unfolding like a hellish cabbage. Their delicate ears underneath the armor able to detect deeper and smaller sound/noise such as mechanical alarm clock but their ears are vulnerable to conventional weapons, explaining why they only briefly lift their plates if they feel safe enough to do so when tracking an enemy or prey and they always close their armor to protect their ears when attacking the target and hunting sound.
Their extremely sensitive hearing can be turned into a weakness, as Regan discovered that their ears are so delicate that high-frequency sound waves (generated from a hearing aid) will make them uncontrollably squeal in pain and spasm, accidentally opening up the armor plates on their ears and exposing the vulnerable skin underneath, which allows humans easily kill the creatures by any weapons. If the high-pitched noises are loud enough, they could cause a Death Angel to temporarily collapse from the pain. If their armor being damaged, the creature are still survived however shooting their head would instantly kills the creature.
As confirmed by Krasinski, the aliens are not sapient, but vicious animals. Just how intelligent they are is unclear, as they mostly seem driven by pure instinct, though the Abbotts' whiteboard speculates that they are capable of hunting in packs. Besides, when one of Death Angel was killed, another Death Angel came running to the location of its death, with no exception presumably because of the noise that easily attracted other Death Angel to come.
Perhaps most frustratingly, the creatures do not kill for food: the Abbotts' whiteboard includes the prominent note, "Why don't they eat their prey?", and they are never seen eating any of the corpses they leave behind: all human corpses were seen mummified but otherwise intact. They don't seem intelligent enough to kill for sadism, rather it seems that they just instinctively lash out at anything that creates any kind of noise which may harms Death Angels. It's possible that they cannot eat their prey, because their biology might be incompatible with terrestrial animals. Nonetheless, they are so robust that they survived a long interstellar journey on asteroids (possibly in a state of hibernation) even during the invasion without eating and sleeping, so it might take years for them to actually starve to death.
Pre-Series
At some point, the creatures' planet was destroyed for unknown reasons, but due to their durable nature and their indestructible armor, they survived on asteroid fragments, which eventually arrived on Earth in a meteor shower and fall into several cities such as Millbrook, Mexico, New York and Shanghai.
A Quiet Place
The Death Angels are responsible for Beau's death at the beginning of the film after Beau turned on the rocket toy by inserting the batteries. They are also seen hunting in the Abbott household when Evelyn's water breaks and she accidentally stabs her foot with a nail in the basement stairs. A Death Angel slashed Man in the Woods after he discovered that his wife being killed by Death Angel and attracting the Death Angel by screaming in form of suicide. A Death Angel was nearing Evelyn in the bathroom when she was about the give birth to her son but was distracted away due to Marcus setting off a firework. Lee's death was at the claws of a Death Angel, albeit it was to protect Regan and Marcus to help Evelyn. A Death Angel was shown in the finale when their weakness, high-pitched frequency waves, was shown, and killed by Evelyn. Two more came running to the farm after his death, implying they were killed too.
A Quiet Place Part II
In the opening scene, Death Angels are seen slaughtering the inhabitants of Millbrook, a New York town, on the first day they landed on Earth by a meteor. At the start of the attack (not long after the meteor landed at Walker's Farm near Millbrook), one of them attacked a police car of a local officer causing panic in main street, then another attacked and destroyed a station wagon just in front of Evelyn's car which also claw her front window, and another killed a driver of a bus which caused it to about ram over Evelyn, Marcus, and Beau though they were able to avoid it but the bus hit her car. In the ensuing chaos, a Death Angel was able to continue rampaging the town killing a few inhabitants, just as Lee, Regan, and most of the inhabitants went to a nearby bar to avoid being killed. They hid in tables and tried to stay silent as possible to avoid Death Angels, as Lee tried to silence a praying man and they witnessed one of Death Angel walk slowly and open their armor to track the sound. However, a teenage couple's phone accidentally rings, alerting the Death Angel outside and closing the armor then the Death Angel attacking and killing a few people in the bar just as Lee and Regan escaped the bar with the Death Angel pursuing them. As Lee and Regan approach the damaged police car where Evelyn, Beau, and Marcus are hiding, the Death Angel tries to kill them but Ronnie, the local police officer, saves them by trying to shoot by his shotgun at the creature. Despite his best efforts, the shots are no match for the creature's impenetrable armor but the shotgun's sound distracts the Death Angel from Abbotts and the officer decides to sacrifice himself to save the family. In the present, a Death Angel was shown chasing the Abbott family and Emmett when Evelyn accidentally set off Emmett's booby trap and Marcus gets his foot severely injured in a bear trap at outside of his base, an abandoned factory, Regan set the speaker with her high-frequency feedback to disorient and open the Death Angel plate and Evelyn killed the creature by her shotgun. A Death Angel was shown hunting Regan when she encountered an abandoned train, where it attempts to kill her. Regan uses her high-frequency feedback to disorient the creature along with her shotgun, though it is only able to damage the creature's armor. The creature tries to kill Regan, but she was saved by Emmett. When Regan and Emmett are confronted by a group of feral humans lead by Marina Man while searching for a boat on the docks, Emmett makes a noise to attracts two Death Angels where they slaughter the deranged inhabitants. Emmett then stabs the leader with a knife causing the leader screamed which allow the creature to kill him before jumping off to avoid being killed. The Death Angel hopped on a boat and killed more humans but later drowned as it jumped on the water and trying to get back on the boat, while the other Death Angel got into the same boat. A Death Angel got into Emmett's base, leading to Marcus and his brother accidentally trapping themselves in a furnace-turned-bunker, nearly suffocating them. Next day, Emmett hears the sound of boat crashed and discovered that the Death Angel was on the damaged boat snuck onto the island and attacked the island survivors before being lured by the leader, Emmett and Regan towards the radio station where the leader got killed and Emmett got injured by it before Regan was able to use her cochlear implant to broadcast a high pitch frequency across the local area to stun the Death Angels. At the same time, Evelyn walks slowly and discover that the creature is still nearby then Evelyn managed to close the door but failed and then the creature managed to pull Marcus, Evelyn and the baby out. However, the creature claw Evelyn's leg. Regan later turned on her cochlear implant then bring to the creature closer but ineffective. Regan turned on the radio which angered the creature. Shortly, Regan stab her cochlear implant to microphone and make them reveal their vulnerable spot, allowing Regan to kill the creature on the island and also for Marcus to kill the creature in Emmett's base.
Trivia
•The estimate population of Death Angels on Earth is unknown. •According to Lee's Whiteboard on the first film, There were approximately 3 Death Angels in Millbrook. •On the spin-off film, there are dozens of Death Angels appeared in New York. •The aliens don't have an official name; the name "Death Angels" comes from a headline that appears on the Abbott family's wall of newspaper clippings. •The Death Angels have two major weaknesses. •The Death Angels are unable to swim, and appear to quickly drown in deep water. •The Death Angels are unable to withstand particularly very high frequency sounds which cause the armor on their heads opened by force and their ears to be exposed. This allows the Abbotts and Emmett to kill Death Angels by shooting or beating them in the creature's head by any weapons. •John Krasinski provided some motion capture for the Death Angels in the films. •The Death Angels were designed by A Quiet Place's special effects supervisor Scott Farrar. The CGI for the Death Angels was done by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). •The design of the Death Angels was inspired by bog people (corpses who are buried in peat bogs). •The exact physiology of Death Angels is unclear. Furthermore, they appear to violate several laws of thermodynamics and physics. •Lee notes that they do not eat what they kill, raising questions as to how they are able to able to supply enough energy for locomotion. This is in conjunction with the fact that they possess incredibly heavy armor which would raise energy requirements tremendously. •How they were able to survive intergalactic travel or the vacuum of space is a mystery. •Their protective armor has demonstrated remarkable fortitude; it is able to withstand even higher kinetic force weaponry (presumably also atomics). No such material of similar durability has ever been synthesized nor observed to exist in real world. •Death Angels have not been documented to reproduce, excrete, sleep, or breathe, and are somehow able to differentiate between members of their own species.
Jul 12, 2021 · The monsters in A Quiet Place and its sequel have some history behind them. Here's how John Krasinski created an entire backstory, detailing their origins.
Apr 6, 2018 · With Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe. A family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.
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Apr 6, 2018 · By Hannah Shaw-Williams. Published Apr 6, 2018. Share. Link copied to clipboard. Warning: Major SPOILERS for A Quiet Place ahead. - John Krasinski's gripping horror film A Quiet Place portrays a family's fight to survive in a world full of monsters that hunt by sound.
A Quiet Place premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2018, and was released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Paramount Pictures. It grossed more than $340 million worldwide and received critical acclaim.
