The film starts with a flashback to day one, where we see what happened when the aliens first crashed onto earth (we also see a familiar face…). It then picks up pretty much exactly where the first film ended. The Abbotts have been navigating this dystopia for just over a year; a chilling parallel to the pandemic we’re nearly 18 months into.

Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and her children, Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and Marcus (Noah Jupe), continue to and try find safety without making a single sound that disturbs the deadly creatures hunting them down. But they now have two extra problems: they’ve lost the dad of the family, Lee (John Krasinski), and they have gained a newborn baby – not ideal, given the situation. There’s also another unexpected addition to the gang: old family friend, Emmett, played by Cillian Murphy.

Will Emmett help the Abbotts or sabotage their mission? Can you really keep a baby silent? And are there other threats out there that the family should be scared of?

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