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I really didn’t want to do the second one at all, because I didn’t know that I could find something as pure to me,” says writer/director John Krasinski, whose 2018 horror movie A Quiet Place crept out of nowhere to score a deafening box-office kerching – $341m from a modest $17m budget.

Krasinki, still best known to many as Jim Halpert from describes the first film as “a love letter to my children”. And while that might seem odd given it possesses terrifying alien creatures that hunt their human prey by sound in a post-apocalyptic

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