
The family finds a house with a high fence and locked gate. Lynn struggles to keep up, and her coughing puts the family at risk. Hugh leads his family on foot after setting Glenn's car on fire as a decoy. To keep his family safe, Hugh is forced to let their dog out of the car to die. Glenn fires his gun, leading them away from the Andrews and sacrificing himself. As the Andrews family returns to their car, their dog barks, attracting the vesps. Hugh and Kelly fail to free him, and Glenn asks Hugh to leave. Speeding through the countryside, Glenn's car hits a herd of fleeing deer and tumbles down the embankment. The group hits a massive traffic jam, blocking all the interstates, and Glenn goes off-road. Glenn shoots the man in the leg, and they drive away. They set out in two cars, but a man tries to hijack Hugh's car, risking the family.

Glenn, Hugh's best friend, joins them and brings his guns. Ally suggests they head to the countryside, which is likely to be quieter. The third one shows the cave research team screaming, and it cuts to another shot of the vesps fleeing, shortly before getting interrupted by an emergency broadcast. The child has her mouth taped,Īnd the mother shows a note written, "Don't make noise". Hugh recommended the family to put their cellphones on silent mode, and, they see four videos, one showing two victims running, the second one showing a mother and her child in a car. government declares a state of emergency and asks people to stay indoors and quiet. As news of the vesp outbreak spreads, the U.S. The vesps violently kill the researchers, fly out of the mine, and seek the noisiest areas.Īlly Andrews, a teenage girl who lost her hearing in a car accident, lives with her parents Hugh and Kelly Andrews, her maternal grandmother Lynn, who has terminal lung cancer, her brother Jude, and a pet dog.

It was also released in theaters in seven countries in the rest of 2019, grossing $2.3 million.Ī cave research team unearths an unknown species of pterosaur-like creature, referred to as "vesps", from a mine. Netflix released The Silence on April 10, 2019.

Shipka plays a deaf teenager who seeks shelter with her family, and a cult tries to take advantage of her fertility. The film depicts a world under attack by creatures who hunt by sound. The screenplay by Carey and Shane Van Dyke adapts the 2015 horror novel of the same name by Tim Lebbon. Leonetti and starring Kiernan Shipka, Stanley Tucci, Miranda Otto, and John Corbett. The Silence is a 2019 horror film directed by John R.
