A Quiet Place: Day One: A Horror Prequel With a Tender Heart [Video]

Early in A Quiet Place: Day One, terminal cancer patient Sam (Lupita Nyong’o) is displeased when she learns that the “show” in Manhattan that she’s been dragged to with a group of hospice residents is, in fact, a marionette performance. She has very little time to live—already having outlasted her diagnosis—and now she’s spending what could be her last day watching an old man make a puppet dance on stage. But in the space of a minute, Sam finds herself transfixed by the delicate artistry on display, and is moved nearly to tears. Whatever she was expecting from the one-man puppet show, this is something different, elegance from within the artifice of children’s entertainment. 

With this, writer/director Michael Sarnoski…