What are the monsters in The Silence?

According to the film's production notes, the creatures are named "Vesps" after the Spanish avispa, meaning wasps. Director John R. Leonetti said that research was done into other cave creatures in order to design the Vesps.
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Where did the creatures from The Silence come from?

With that said, Kransinski is breaking his silence on where the movie's main antagonists come from. While making an appearance on the Empire Magazine podcast, he revealed that they do come from outer space, crash-landing on Earth after traveling in meteorites after the destruction of their home planet.
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What kind of creature is in The Silence?

Vesps are the main antagonists of the 2015 book The Silence by Tim Lebbon, and its 2019 film adaptation of the same name. They are an ancient species of bat-like monsters that, while blind, are highly sensitive to sound.
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Who is the weird man in The Silence?

In the film, he was portrayed by Billy MacLellan in his first villainous role.
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What are the creatures that make you forget Doctor Who?

Rather than a specific race, The Silence are a religious order. Their agents on Earth have been there since before the dawn of mankind, directing human evolution. Through the use post-hypnotic suggestion, The Silence make people who see them instantly forget their existence.
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What was on the bed in listen?

A figure once appeared on top of Rupert Pink's bed at the West Country Children's Home in the mid-1990s. It did so when Clara Oswald took Rupert underneath his bed to assure him that there was nothing there. The Twelfth Doctor told Rupert and Clara to turn their backs, in order to allow the figure to leave peacefully.
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What is the Doctor's real species?

The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial being called the Doctor, part of a humanoid species called Time Lords.
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Is Silence based on a true story?

1 However, while the book Silence is based on some research, above all, it is a work of fiction; that is, historical elements are largely adapted to fit the purpose of the story.
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Why can the deaf girl in The Silence talk?

Ally's rudimentary signing skills and her preference for speaking aloud fit in well enough with the storyline, since it is mentioned that only three years have passed since she became deaf, but it's more apparently related to the fact that her actress, Kiernan Shipka, is hearing.
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Why did they want to take the girl in The Silence?

They cut out their tongues, knowing that their voices will only get them killed in this new world, and the Reverend unsettlingly reveals that they're interested in capturing Ally because she's "fertile" and therefore an interesting investment to the Waco-type cult.
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How is The Silence defeated?

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Silence will Fall! The Silence were defeated when the Doctor ensured the world saw footage of a Silent apparently ordering people to attack them on sight. This 'command' acted like a post-hypnotic suggestion and humans finally turned on the aliens.
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Where did the Vesps come from in The Silence?

1,000 feet beneath Pennsylvania's Appalachian Trail, cavers in an uncharted subterranean system inadvertently open an expansive chamber containing countless prehistoric bats. Drawn toward loud sounds, the blind bats begin swarming the country and eventually come to be called 'vesps.
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What does fertile mean in The Silence?

The Reverend promptly follows the family to the house they were staying at and requests again, revealing his target is Ally who he sees as "fertile". This likely means he wants to use Ally as a slave for him to impregnate to repopulate the world with his and her children.
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Do the monsters in a quiet place eat?

Perhaps most frustratingly, the creatures do not kill for food: the Abbotts' whiteboard includes the prominent note, "Why don't they eat their prey?", and they are never seen eating any of the corpses they leave behind: all human corpses were seen mummified but otherwise intact.
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How many death angels landed on Earth?

The population of Death Angels on Earth is unknown. There were approximately 3-5 Death Angels in Millbrook. Each meteorite may have brought a few Death Angels.
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Why is silence disturbing?

Silence is scary not just because it's unfamiliar, but also because it opens the door to a whole bunch of thoughts, sensations, and emotions that noise keeps at bay.
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Will there be The Silence 2?

Starring Bajpayee and Prachi Desai in the lead roles, Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout is a direct-to-digital release on the ZEE5 Global streaming platform, which premiered yesterday.
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Is Amelia in The Silence really deaf?

Genevieve Barr was born deaf and normally uses hearing aids. For her role as Amelia, who has just had a cochlear implant fitted, she was required to remove her hearing aids. She also had to learn sign language which she had never used before because she had always relied on her hearing aids supplemented by lip reading.
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What year is Silence set in?

Though Silence takes place around 1640, it emphasizes many aspects of the medieval world as seen on film. First, the Jesuit Order is prominently featured, spreading the Christian faith similarly to how in other medieval films religious orders are instrumental to the conversion of “heathens” to Christianity.
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Is The Silence really scary?

Movie isn't scary, more of a thriller. The beginning is fine but part way through the movie there are more violent scenes, including one that alludes to intended rape.
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How old is the deaf girl in the silence?

When the world is under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound, 16-year old Ally Andrews (Kiernan Shipka), who lost her hearing at 13, and her family seek refuge...
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What does theta sigma mean?

It turns that Theta Sigma ΘΣ was Greek abbreviation for "God" in the Greek version of the New Testiment. It also turns out that in early written manuscripts, Theta Sigma ΘΣ was sometimes mistranscribed as Omicron Theta ΟΣ which translates to "Who". ( or the reverse where Omicron Sigma was transcribed as Theta Sigma)
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What is the Doctor's real name in Gallifreyan?

The Doctor's real name is given as a "mathematical formula": ∂³Σx². Other Time Lords are given similar names: Prosecutor: ᔑx²-›‾‹
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Do we ever find out the Doctor's real name?

Throughout Doctor Who, there have been multiple reasons why the Doctor's name was never revealed. The sixth Doctor claimed it was simply because a human could not pronounce it, but the eleventh Doctor revealed his name was a signal that would bring the Time-Lords to this universe and restart the Time War.
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