10 Unbelievable Horror Movie Facts That Are Somehow True

Depending on who you speak to, A Quiet Place's alien menaces are either one of the silliest-looking things ever to hunt down an innocent family on the big screen or one of the most terrifying.

But even if you're not a fan of the long-legged 'Death Angel' design itself, most can still agree that the concept of being horrifically killed by a creature with hypersensitive hearing if you just stepped on a leaf is a properly scary one.

When it came to deciding precisely how these blind monsters would move across this version of our planet, you'll likely be shocked to learn that director John Krasinski was more involved than you'd think.

Rather than just telling the wizards at Industrial Light & Magic how he wanted his aliens to walk and behave physically, Krasinski incredibly revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he was actually encouraged to put on a motion capture suit and act out their movements. 

He even played the creature on set at points, something which left the audience chuckling during test screenings (via Business Insider).

From here, the team were able to use that motion capture work to eventually create the horrifying beasts seen making many a human's life a misery in the franchise. And that technically means that Krasinski not only played Lee Abbott in that first film, but also the things that eventually killed him at certain points in the movie. How cool?