‘A Quiet Place’ Is Fertile Ground For These Jokes And Parodies

A Quiet Place is a “relentlessly fun and tense” horror-triller that’s become a word-of-mouth hit, grossing $50 million in its domestic opening weekend on a $17 million budget (and already making over $75 million worldwide). Not bad for a film that was almost a Cloverfield sequel (whomp whomp).

A Quiet Place is the third film directed by The Office (American version) star John Krasinski, who told us he never expected to make a horror movie because he can’t watch them. More importantly, his role in The Office has created great potential for jokes, like the parody mashup video above from Media Muse, who have reimagined the movie with Dwight Schrute’s cousin Mose as an alien with hypersensitive hearing and murderous intent.

Many of the jokes being made about A Quiet Place reference the opening scene of the eleventh episode of the eighth season of The Office, “Trivia,” in which the employees of Dunder Mifflin try to play the quiet game. Twitter also noticed the similarities between the two.

— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) April 7, 2018

Just saw “A Quiet Place” and about 8 minutes before the end of the movie a girl leaned over and asked her friend, “Is that the guy from ‘The Office’”

— Chris Kelly (@imchriskelly) April 8, 2018

A Quiet Place, but every time someone makes any noise, John Krasinski hits the camera with one of these pic.twitter.com/s6xQmdHxPx

— Landon (@igotdefeverman) April 8, 2018

Plenty of people also made the obvious jokes about noisy theatergoers:

the entire theater in unison: so have i told you about my chronic coughing problem

— wes (@fashioniconluke) April 8, 2018

Trying to eat popcorn during A Quiet Place was exhausting pic.twitter.com/A5L537NBOa

— dane cardiel (@danecardiel) April 8, 2018

Me in the theater watching 'A Quiet Place' pic.twitter.com/uRDgrZ1oPL

— NoahJ456 (@NoahJ456) April 9, 2018

anytime I tried biting into my reese’s pieces while watching A Quiet Place I felt like I was risking the safety of the theater

— nathan zed//kali uchis stan (@NathanZed) April 8, 2018

me trying to eat my popcorn during A QUIET PLACE pic.twitter.com/aXMQNZ5SMo

— sreekar (@sreekyshooter) April 7, 2018

Having just seen A Quiet Place I have decided that the only man I will ever allow to shush me is John Krasinski.

— Georgie Henley (@geohenleyreal) April 8, 2018

Others shared alternate theories, comparisons, and movie titles:

— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) April 11, 2018

A Quiet Place (2018) pic.twitter.com/lG4oWhVUjK

— Miles McBride (@MilesMcBride3) April 9, 2018

A Quiet Place is just a documentary about visiting your friends who have a baby.

— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) April 9, 2018

I’ve concluded that ‘A Quiet Place’ isn’t a thriller/horror movie, but an avant garde take on theater ettiquette.

— Gaypril showers bring May flowers (@iamsamantic) April 9, 2018

ME: what would you like to do tonight

DATE: let’s go see A Quiet Place

ME: okay

[later]

ME: *pulls up in front of public library* welp there it is

— FROVO (@fro_vo) April 11, 2018

And at least one deep thinker is about to blow this whole thing wide open:

— Angie Treasure (@snark_tank) April 8, 2018

(Hat tip to Blame It On The Voices and Buzzfeed)