

He waited, actually, to see it in theaters with an audience, so he could get the full effect. Thanks to the breakneck speed of production, Farrar has only seen the film all the way through once. “He knows Hitchcock shots, he knows Nosferatu, he knows the old Fritz Lang black-and-whites, he knows modern-day horror films.” Farrar remembers a producer showing him the running scene from Get Out as a particular reference point for a scene in A Quiet Place.įarrar, who’s worked with everyone from Steven Spielberg to Ava DuVernay, remembers being impressed with Krasinski’s depth of cinematic knowledge. Both Krasinski and Farrar were newcomers to the genre as a whole, so they spent as much time as they could seeking out classic horror scenes and trying to dissect the magical scare factor. Because of the stealthy presentation of the monsters, Jaws was a major reference point for Krasinski and the team, as was Alien.
