“A Quiet Place Day 1” is the third movie in the A Quiet Place series and is about the first day when the Aliens land on Earth, specifically Manhattan. It goes back to the beginning of the apocalypse and shows what people’s reactions were to it in comparison to the other movies, which were based well after the Death Angels got there.
“A Quiet Place Day 1” is the best of the series because it is very creative with new characters and describes what it was like on the first day of the invasion. There is also a deeper element of people’s view on death, which makes the movie more compelling.
They introduced new main characters, Sam, her service cat Frodo, and Eric. which differed from the same family in the other 2 movies. Both main characters are new and show a different perspective, Sam a cancer patient with her service cat, and Eric an English law student there for school. Using new characters in “A Quiet Place Day 1” was a good idea because it would have gotten kind of boring if it had the same family as the first two movies, so instead of just being a rewind of the first two movies, it was a good idea to create it from another person’s perspective.
“A Quiet Place Day 1” also focuses more on a different type of fear than the other two movies. Throughout the film, Eric seems to fear the apocalypse a lot more than Sam due to her condition. In the beginning, it didn’t even seem like Sam cared about being safe until Eric introduced himself. In the other two films, it was based on mainly gore and eeriness, but “A Quiet Place Day 1” shows how some people have health issues that make them ultimately feel differently about dying. This adds a deeper and more interesting element to the movie which really makes it stand out.
Instead of referring back to the same time frames used in the first two movies, “A Quiet Place Day 1”goes back to the moments of the invasion in a city setting. This did a good job of displaying the reactions of many people who don’t understand the aliens and what they should do. It was a good idea to add in the service cat because it makes you think about how a pet would also have to react to an apocalypse.
If they had just made a remake of the first two movies but with just new characters, you would already know what to expect, but with the addition of making everyone unaware of what is happening, “A Quiet Place Day 1” keeps you on the edge of your seat and makes it the most memorable of the three movies.
“A Quiet Place Day 1” is a slightly better movie than the first movie released. Both have creative ideas, and the first “A Quiet Place” focused a lot on the scare part which I enjoyed. I still think that circling back to day one, and the more interesting characters and their origins make “A Quiet Place Day 1” a little more enjoyable to watch than the first release.
Compared to “A Quiet Place Part 2”, I think “A Quiet Place Day 1” improved on a lot of issues. They did not repeat having to deal with the kid’s mistakes, and everything was based on protecting the kids. “A Quiet Place Day 1” focused more on new characters’ reactions to an apocalypse, which added uniqueness to the series and made “A Quiet Place Day 1” more interesting to watch.
In conclusion, “A Quiet Place Day 1” was based less on fear and suspenseful scenes and more on how Sam and Eric respond to an apocalypse event. Even including that, It is still the best movie of the series and I would give it a 4.5 out of 5 stars. Though they could have added another suspenseful scene or two, there were still enough to match up fairly well in the horror category of the first two movies. They also made the movie unique by not basing the movie on the same family-like protagonists as the first two movies. Instead, they added a cat and new unique characters which gave a different perspective on what was happening and made the movie much more enjoyable to watch.