If I have one criticism of the film, it is this – once you’ve seen the creatures, and understand what they are all about, their weakness (something Lee and his clan try to determine throughout the movie) seems obvious. This is a very minor quibble. In fact, on further thought, it adds a layer of dramatic irony to the story, as I willed the family on to figure it out and fight back.

Suspension of disbelief is not a problem in A Quiet Place. Very often, we know from the outset which characters are going to survive and who will perish. In Krasinski’s movie, we know from the outset that the family members are in genuine danger. Any one of them could be killed at any moment, and by the end of this thriller some of them might well be…

The performances are sublime. Of course, Emily Blunt is superb from start to finish. Her innate talent to find what’s important about her character and play it with exactly the right balance is what has won her a broom closet-full of awards including BAFTAs and Critic’s Choice awards. That Blunt continues to make genre movies (this, Looper, Edge of Tomorrow and The Adjustment Bureau marks four sci-fi roles in just seven years, alongside a ton of other work) is something we fans need to shout about. We’re lucky to have her, and long may it continue. Krasinski shows he has the drama chops to add to his funny everyman role in The Office, and the child/adolescent actors are superb, more than holding their own in every scene they are in. Millicent Simonds’ Regan is both gutsy and tragic – still just a child yet wracked with a guilt that affords her an existential crisis, one which eats at her throughout the film and has a wonderful, heart-warming (and heart-breaking) payoff.