Why could the creatures in the Quiet Place hear the faintest sound from a large distance but couldn't spot a person a few feet from them?
In the Quiet Place movie, monster creatures roam the Earth searching for biological life that makes a sound. They seem to be able to pick up the least insignificant noise from a huge distance (such as a gas lamp toppling over inside a house), however they have a hard time spotting a person within the same room if they stay quiet enough.
Was there any explanation for this within the movie?
Best Answer
There is a whiteboard shown at an early point in the film which provides convenient exposition.
The monsters are blind.
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Why do the monsters in A Quiet Place make noise?
They even have a specific, shrill cry which they screech when they move in to attack their prey. This particular sound signals any other nearby creatures to go into attack mode as well (ironically, this shriek eventually becomes their downfall when a feedback loop of the noise is recorded and weaponized against them).Why do the Quiet Place monsters hate sound?
Because of that, any noise is like torture to them \u2014 the shrill feedback of a hearing aid is nearly debilitating. So whenever one of those creatures hears a noise, they will stop at nothing to end it. That brings up the startling revelation that they don't really care about killing humans specifically.How well can the monsters in A Quiet Place hear?
One of the monsters' greatest strengths is their incredible hearing. As shown in both A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II, the monsters are able to pick up on even the smallest, briefest of sounds from a considerable distance, but that also becomes a weakness.How did they make the alien sound in A Quiet Place?
\u201cWe felt it would have been too obvious to use the 'clicks' that those sort of animals use as the basis for the creatures, but we found that when you record the clicks made by a stun gun and slow them down, they create this disturbing, otherworldly sound that was perfect for the film.\u201dA Quiet Place - Un posto tranquillo | Trailer Ufficiale #2 HD | Paramount Pictures 2018
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It's not explicitly mentioned in the film, but I think their ability to hear over such great distance actually is the reason they have trouble finding a relatively quiet person right in from of them. There's the argument that people make noises all the time--breathing, heart beats, etc--but it surely would be difficult to pick out those sounds when you're also hearing the wind through the corn field outside or the squeaking of a floorboard next door. At a certain point, acuity crossed over into hypersensitivity.
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