10 Smartest Decisions In Horror Movies

A Quiet Place very firmly sets up a universe of silence from the outset, if you couldn't guess it from the title, killing off a family's young child for playing with a noisy toy just to prove how serious it is about staying really bloody quiet. If the kids get treated this harshly, you know there's going to be some serious consequences throughout the rest of the movie; it's a great way of instilling fear into the audience.

And that fear only continues to mount up when it's revealed that Evelyn is heavily pregnant - if a baby isn't going to make enough noise as it is already, the actual physical act of birthing it really isn't going to help. But instead of winging it and seeing how they fare, the family have set up an admirable base for their misendeavours by covering potential sounds with a gigantic firework display, alongside their usual clever silencing techniques.

Yes, it attracts all the creatures in the nearby vicinity, but it does a bang-up job of covering both childbirth and newborn baby screams alike, and they even have their own soundproofed box for good measure in the future.

Humanity was going to have to repopulate at some point, so whilst having a baby in the middle of the apocalypse isn't a great idea, their precautions otherwise were especially innovative.