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A quiet place: A powerful and evil force threatens to attack a family whenever they make a noise, causing them to plunge into lives of silence. Any move they make, they live with the terrifying threat of being ambushed at any moment. With their existence on the line, they will need to develop a plan to escape their perilous circumstances. The question is whether or not time has already run out on their aspirations to lead normal lives10 Cloverfield Lane: A young woman wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she's locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper, who insists that he saved her life and that the world outside is uninhabitable following an apocalyptic catastrophe. Uncertain what to believe, the woman soon determines that she must escape at any costIt comes at night: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge. Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within him as he learns that the protection of his family comes at the cost of his soulSnowpiercer: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive rich and powerful live30 days of night: "Barrow, Alaska: northernmost town in the U.S. Isolated in 80 miles of roadless wilderness, cut off every winter for 30 days of night." So says the opening screen. More importantly, the population dwindles from over 500 to 150 souls willing to brave the cold and the seemingly endless night. Charged with protecting the town during its nocturnal period, Sheriff Eben is a man trying to reconnect with his estranged wife Stella, who misses the last plane out before nightfall. As they deal with being thrust together again, a rash of crimes--including the killing of a number of dogs and the destruction of a helicopter--breaks out over the tiny town. As Eben and Stella attempt to solve these crimes, powerful strangers walk into town, seemingly superhuman and with a thirst for blood. The few remaining townsfolk must try to survive the 30 Days of Night

A quiet place / produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller ; screenplay by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski ; story by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck ; directed by John Krasinski (2018 : PG13 : 90 min.) -- 10 Cloverfield Lane / directed by Dan Trachtenberg ; screenplay by Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken and Damien Chazelle ; produced by J.J. Abrams, Lindsey Weber (2016 : PG13 : 103 min.) -- It comes at night / written & directed by Trey Edwards Shults ; produced by David Kaplan, Andrea Roa (2017 : R : 92 min.) -- Snowpiercer / producers, Jeong Tae-Sung, Steven Nam ; produced by Park Chan-Wook, Lee Tae Hun ; screenplay by Bong Joon Ho and Kelly Masterson ; directed by Bong Joon Ho (2013 : R : 126 min.) -- 30 days of night produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert ; screenplay by Steve Niles and Stuart Beattie and Brian Nelson ; directed by David Slade (2007 : R : 113 min.)

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