A father and his twin teenage sons fight to survive in a remote farmhouse at the end of the world. (IMDB)

I am 50 years-old and I’ve seen a lot of monsters, from Alien to Strangers Things and everything in between. Yet, Arcadian manages to be so creative with the monsters, that it managed to surprise me. Kudos to the special effects for showing me that I, actually, haven’t seen it all yet.

The dialogues are well written and the characters are believable. As for the story, at no point will you be guided by the hand through Arcadian, it’s one of those movies that makes you connect the dots yourself.

Nicholas Cage is believable as a fierce father and the rest of the cast is great too. The movie is bleak and it manages to create enough tension to keep you interested.

We had a great time watching Arcadian and, most of all, its gritty ambiance lingered for a few days… That’s not something every movie manages to accomplish. Let’s hope for a sequel!

In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing – IMDb

Now that I’ve seen both A Quiet Place and The Silence, I see why people say that they are very similar. Even though they are, it didn’t bother me at all, I enjoyed both movies. Where A Quiet Place is more about the survival, The Silence has a better rhythm, and more likeable characters.

Rather than writing about their differences and similarities, here are some facts I’ve read about A Quiet Place:

• The film’s director and lead actor, John Krasinski, played the monster in a motion capture suit for a few scenes.
• Actress Millicent Simmonds has been deaf since infancy.
• The filmmakers purchased twenty tons of corn and hired local farmers to grow it.
• The entire movie was shot in thirty-six days.
• The movie only contains about 25 lines of voiced dialogue, although sign language dialogue is used extensively.
• The first line of voiced dialogue isn’t spoken until about 38 minutes into the film.
• John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are married both in this film and in real life.
• In the basement scene towards the end, a few frames of newspaper cuttings are visible. One of these clearly states ‘Multiple Landing Sites’ as a headline, alluding directly to the origin of the monster species being from space.

The silence in the movie created such a tension, it made me wonder how it must be like if this would happen for real. I can’t imagine being so quiet all the time! I’m like an elephant in a china shop, I would be doomed!