One of A Quiet Place: Day One's most peculiar and fascinating scenes creates a nagging question: what are the alien pouches? The third installment of John Krasinski’s popular franchise A Quiet Place was released in theaters on June 28, showing the first day the aliens landed on Earth. This movie focuses specifically on “The City That Never Sleeps,” New York City. The commotion of the alien landing is just as big and terrifying as imagined after the flashback in A Quiet Place Part II.
While slightly below the first two movies in ratings, the third movie has a high Rotten Tomatoes score due to the incredible performances of the A Quiet Place: Day One cast and the great scares. The action-based fear is ramped up because the aliens play a more central role in the movie, a diversion from A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II. In addition to keeping the franchise fresh, this change allows A Quiet Place: Day One to explore the background of the aliens, revealing shocking details.
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A Quiet Place: Day One Shows Multiple Alien Pouches In New York
Eric Finds The Pouches While Saving Frodo, The Cat
The movie A Quiet Place: Day One provides many answers about how the aliens take over the world as well as how they survive on Earth. One of the only scenes focused on the aliens instead of humans comes towards the end of A Quiet Place: Day One. When Eric goes to the pharmacy, he doesn’t realize that Frodo, the cat, is following him. After the cat runs off, he enters a building to save him, where he finds the aliens congregated in one area surrounding a bunch of seemingly organic pouches.
These round sacs likely came down on the meteors that brought the aliens. The pouches look slightly like egg sacs, but the aliens tear them apart. When opened, the pouches look stringy and seem to be made of organic material. Because Eric has to get out of there safely, the movie doesn’t linger too long on the pouches. Still, that doesn’t make them any less significant to the world-building in A Quiet Place: Day One. Eagle-eyed viewers will gain a better understanding of the creatures tormenting humans.
A Quiet Place: Day One's Pouches Are The Aliens' Food
The Answer Comes From An Interview Not The Movie
Because the origins of A Quiet Place’s monsters are mysterious throughout the first two movies, the pouches in Day One are the first big hint about the creatures’ biology. The most obvious explanation for the pouches is that they are food that sustains the aliens until they acclimate to their new food chain on Earth. The aliens tear the pouches apart with their sharp teeth. They also don’t have an established food source, as they aren’t shown eating the humans they kill.
The other primary theory about the pouches in A Quiet Place: Day One was that the sacs were related to the aliens’ reproductive process. The pouches already have visual similarities to arachnid eggs, and then the scene parallels Ripley discovering the Xenomorph eggs in Aliens. This gives the theory some credence. Luckily, the director, Michael Sarnoski, answered the question when speaking with BJ Colangelo (via /Film).
While using humans as fertilizer is generally risky, there’s nothing to say the aliens in A Quiet Place would be susceptible to human pathogens.
According to Michael Sarnoski, the first guess is partially correct, but in a much more disturbing way than it seems. The aliens in the A Quiet Place universe farm these pouches to eat, fertilizing the sacs with the bodies of the humans they kill. This explains why they aren’t shown eating their human prey. Additionally, this fits with the sci-fi narrative of the franchise. While using humans as fertilizer is generally risky, there’s nothing to say the aliens in A Quiet Place would be susceptible to human pathogens.
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A Quiet Place: Day One's Eggs Are Created Using Dead Human Bodies
The Aliens Are Farmers Harvesting Their Food Source On Earth
The prequel movie does not delve into the details of how the aliens create the eggs. However, a closer look at the scene where the aliens break the eggs and feed on a strange pinkish liquid from them hints that the eggs were harvested using dead human bodies. As A Quiet Place: Day One's director Michael Sarnoski discussed in an interview (via Slash Film), the aliens in the film are similar to leafcutter ants in more ways than one because they use "the organic material of people to grow what is their food source."
Instead of merely describing the alien food source as an egg, the director even called it a "kind of weird melon-y, egg, mushroom," which suggests the eggs are crops grown using human bodies. This makes the alien creatures farmers, much like the extraterrestrial beings from Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Unlike the aliens from War of the Worlds, however, the Death Angels from A Quiet Place seem immune to human pathogens given how they have survived for so long.
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The Pouches Answer A Major Alien Mystery In A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One Continues To Expand The Lore Of The Aliens
The pouches shown in add fear and suspense while answering a large mystery in the franchise – how the aliens eat. Humans are likely the easiest prey to fertilize their farms because they are located on almost every part of the planet. However, if the aliens killed off all the humans, they could still rely on other animals to keep their farms going. They seem to simply need organic matter to fertilize their sacs, which is abundant on Earth. This answer in A Quiet Place: Day One continues to expand the franchise's lore.
If John Krasinski or Michael Sarnoski wish to make more movies within the universe, they could provide a closer examination of the aliens from a human perspective, in the same vein as the Alien franchise or Spielberg's War of the Worlds.
The glimpse of the aliens’ food source also potentially provides an exciting jumping-off point for a future movie. If John Krasinski or Michael Sarnoski wish to make more movies within the universe, they could provide a closer examination of the aliens from a human perspective, in the same vein as the Alien franchise or Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Alternatively, he could give an origin story for the A Quiet Place aliens, starting from their planet and leading up to their arrival on Earth.
Why A Quiet Place: Day One Doesn't Focus On The Alien Eggs
The Franchise Has Always Been Less About Aliens & More About Humans
Since the first film, the movie franchise has thrived on maintaining an air of mystery surrounding the alien creatures, their origins, and their motives on Earth. This allows the films to immerse audiences into their action and terrors by making them feel as helpless and clueless as the characters in their world. However, despite maintaining this ambiguity, the films have gradually expanded their alien lore by dropping subtle hints about their strengths and weaknesses. A Quiet Place: Day One seemingly intends to achieve something similar by only subtly featuring the alien eggs.
Focusing too much on the alien food source and how it is made could have potentially diminished the impact of the human narrative of A Quiet Place: Day One...
It discloses enough for viewers to speculate what the aliens are trying to do on the planet but leaves enough room for future films to expand their lore. At the same time, the movie franchise has always been less about the aliens and more about the human stories of struggle, survival, and triumph that emerge from the backdrop of the extraterrestrial threat. Focusing too much on the alien food source and how it is made could have potentially diminished the impact of the human narrative of A Quiet Place: Day One, explaining why the film only shows the eggs from a human character's terrified and naive perspective.
Source: /Film
A Quiet Place: Day One
- Release Date
- June 28, 2024
- Runtime
- 99 Minutes
- Director
- Michael Sarnoski
Cast
Lupita Nyong'o
WHERE TO WATCH
- Writers
- Michael Sarnoski
- Franchise(s)
- A Quiet Place
- Studio(s)
- Paramount Pictures, Platinum Dunes, Sunday Night Productions
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount Pictures
- Main Genre
- Horror
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