Start the new year right with terrifying trailer for A Quiet Place: Part II

Emily Blunt reprises her role as Evelyn Abbott in A Quiet Place: Part II.

Things haven't gotten much better for the beleaguered Abbott family, judging by the first official trailer for A Quiet Place: Part II, the sequel to director (and star) John Krasinski's 2018 breakout sci-fi/horror hit, A Quiet Place. It's an auspicious year for a sequel, given that the original film was set in 2020.

(Major spoilers for the 2018 film A Quiet Place below.)

A Quiet Place had a simple premise: in early 2020, sightless extraterrestrial creatures have wiped out most of the humans and animals on Earth. They hunt by sound, thanks to their hypersensitive hearing and are difficult to kill because they sport a tough armored skin. (The creature's design was inspired by animal echolocation, prehistoric fish, and the infamous bog people: mummified bodies found in the bogs of Northern Europe in particular. They look a bit like the Dementors from the Harry Potter films.)

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