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THE VESPS

REALM:HABITAT: Originally from deep hollows of Appalachian caves. When released, all over the Eastern Seaboard of the the United States, but restricted from cold regions.

MEDIA ORIGIN: The novel Vesps in 2015 and the film adaptation of the SILENCE in 2017

In terms of evolution...

Vesps are Pale bat-like creatures.

The Vesp creatures have translucent skin and other similarities to cave creatures.

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.

"Their skin is translucent, they have wings and they fly, but they also crawl and lay eggs like reptiles ... A lot of scientific research went into the design, the creation, and the computer animation of the creatures, right down to the detail of every joint, every vessel, and every move they make."

Vesps are like aliens bred on Earth who evolved deep in the Appalachian Mountains. They are wholly unlike any other species.

They are like flying Piranhas, able to zero in on what makes noise with their highly advanced echolocation.

It is conceived that these creatures evolved not from bats, but an ancient type of prehistoric Pterodactyls, which escaped the KT extinction by living in the protected deep realms of vast cave systems under the Appalachian mountains.

The cave-filled mountains in Appalachia have been a horror home setting for other films, such as for the creature cavemen in the films the Descent.

As for Vesps, they had reptilian ancestors that were in essence convergent mimics to vampire bats, or vice-versa, since they came before them.

As these vampire Pterodactyls evolved, they learned to hunt massive swarms, feeding on anything organic that makes noise, this was seen in grisly actuality when unexpected cave explorers released them from their limiting cave biomes.

This theme is also mirrored in the movies Piranha, where prehistoric flesh-eating fish are released from their limited habitat by earthquake or human meddling, so the Vesps in this regard are like Piranha and the film notes a tribute to that notion.

WARNING: Film Spoilers Ahead...

After a group of cave divers accidentally unleashes the vesps, they quickly blanket the entire Eastern Seaboard and attack people.

A cave research team unearths an unknown species of pterosaur-like creature, referred to as "vesps", from a mine. The vesps violently kill the researchers, fly out of the mine, and seek the noisiest areas.

Ally Andrews, a teenage girl who lost her hearing in a car accident, lives with her parents Hugh and Kelly Andrews, her maternal grandmother Lynn, who has terminal lung cancer, her brother Jude, and a pet dog. As news of the vesp outbreak spreads, the U.S. government declares a state of emergency and asks people to stay indoors and quiet.

Hugh recommended the family to put their cellphones on silent mode, and, they see four videos, one showing two victims running, the second one showing a mother and her child in a car.

The child has her mouth taped, and the mother shows a note written, "Don't make noise".

The third one shows the cave research team screaming, and it cuts to another shot of the vesps fleeing, shortly before getting interrupted by an emergency broadcast.

Ally suggests they head to the countryside, which is likely to be quieter. Glenn, Hugh's best friend, joins them and brings his guns. They set out in two cars, but a man tries to hijack Hugh's car, risking the family. Glenn shoots the man in the leg, and they drive away.

The group hits a massive traffic jam, blocking all the interstates, and Glenn goes off-road. Speeding through the countryside, Glenn's car hits a herd of fleeing deer and tumbles down the embankment. He survives but is trapped in the car. Hugh and Kelly fail to free him, and Glenn asks Hugh to leave.

As the Andrews family returns to their car, their dog barks, attracting the vesps. Glenn fires his gun, leading them away from the Andrews and sacrificing himself. To keep his family safe, Hugh is forced to let their dog out of the car to die.

Hugh leads his family on foot after setting Glenn's car on fire as a decoy. Lynn struggles to keep up, and her coughing puts the family at risk. The family finds a house with a high fence and locked gate.

The homeowner, unaware of the situation, comes out and speaks and the vesps rip her apart. The family uses a storm drain to enter the house. A rattlesnake appears in front of Jude, attracting the vesps with its rattle they proceed to attack it.

The attracted vesps bite Kelly's leg from behind. Hugh distracts them by turning on a woodchipper, crushing the vesps flying into it, and the family enters the house.

Ally contacts her boyfriend, Rob, who tells her his parents are dead. She learns that religious cults have sprung up in the wake of the disaster. By morning, Kelly's wound is infected, so Hugh and Ally leave to find antibiotics.

At the store, Ally discovers vesp eggs growing inside corpses.

The tongueless reverend of a cult tries to recruit them, but Hugh and Ally leave. They return with the antibiotics and Kelly recovers.

Ally learns from the internet that vesps cannot survive in the cold, prompting the family in planning to head to the north.

The reverend finds the family's hide-out and shows up with his followers, revealing that he intends to recruit Ally. Hugh brings out his gun, forcing the cultists to leave. Rob lets Ally know he is headed north to "the refuge". Hugh and Kelly find a little girl at the door in the middle of the night.

After letting her in, they find she is a member of the tongueless cult.

Phones strapped to her and placed around the house go off, attracting vesps. The cult members abduct Ally but Grandma Lynn runs outside to help her. Lynn holds Ally's captors down and screams; vesps kill her and the captors while Ally escapes.

The family fights back and kills most of the cult, including the reverend.

Weeks later, the family treks across the U.S. and arrives at the refuge.

Ally finds Rob and they hunt the vesps with arrows. Ally wonders whether the vesps will adapt to the cold and whether humans will adapt to a soundless lifestyle, like she did when she lost her hearing.

REMARKS:

Comparison to A Quiet Place...

The Silence was compared to A Quiet Place, a 2018 horror film with a similar premise.
The novel The Silence was published in 2015, and filming of the adaptation took place in 2017, at the same time as A Quiet Place.

While The Silence was acquired by a distributor, it was not released in theaters and was later picked up by Netflix. Quartz's Adam Epstein said while the parallel productions were coincidental, he compared The Silence to mockbusters (low-budget films that exploit blockbusters), highlighting that one of its screenwriters, Shane Van Dyke, wrote several scripts for The Asylum, a studio that specializes in mockbusters.

The novel's author Tim Lebbon admitted that the two films' similarities are "a little troubling" and defended the film adaptation of his novel, "There are similarities, of course, but I'm confident that the movie of The Silence will stand on its own."

The Guardian's Charles Bramesco called The Silence "a shoddy remix" of A Quiet Place and said, "The Silence exists for the sole purpose of being digitally sorted into a list of recommendations For Viewers Who Liked Bird Box, though that classification would be more accurately clocked as For Viewers Who Liked A Quiet Place... the demographic they're really after would be something closer to Viewers Who Have Trouble Telling Similar Things Apart."

Decider's Anna Menta compared the films, "The Silence is much darker and gorier than A Quiet Place," and found The Silence to look low-budget in production values.

Menta said The Silence was started before the invasion while A Quiet Place was set fully after the invasion. She noted the criticism of The Silence for having a hearing actor as a deaf character and highlighted its additional elements, a teen romance and a religious cult.

Writing for Comic Book Resources, Renaldo Matadeen contrasted The Silence from A Quiet Place, writing, "There are quite a few plot threads which make it clear the Netflix movie is far from a rip-off and is, in fact, it's own thing." Matadeen said The Silence's deaf teenage girl can read lips and speak, "After a while, you almost forget Ally is deaf, resulting in the film lacking some of the genuine tension of A Quiet Place.

He found the creatures "totally different" as well as the times compared to the creature invasion.

While both films have "a somewhat similar format" in families trying to survive the creatures, "In The Silence, we get interference from external segments of mankind via the Hushed."

Description
THE VESPS

REALM:HABITAT: Originally from deep hollows of Appalachian caves. When released, all over the Eastern Seaboard of the the United States, but restricted from cold regions.

MEDIA ORIGIN: The novel Vesps in 2015 and the film adaptation of the SILENCE in 2017

In terms of evolution...

Vesps are Pale bat-like creatures.

The Vesp creatures have translucent skin and other similarities to cave creatures.

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.

"Their skin is translucent, they have wings and they fly, but they also crawl and lay eggs like reptiles ... A lot of scientific research went into the design, the creation, and the computer animation of the creatures, right down to the detail of every joint, every vessel, and every move they make."

Vesps are like aliens bred on Earth who evolved deep in the Appalachian Mountains. They are wholly unlike any other species.

They are like flying Piranhas, able to zero in on what makes noise with their highly advanced echolocation.

It is conceived that these creatures evolved not from bats, but an ancient type of prehistoric Pterodactyls, which escaped the KT extinction by living in the protected deep realms of vast cave systems under the Appalachian mountains.

The cave-filled mountains in Appalachia have been a horror home setting for other films, such as for the creature cavemen in the films the Descent.

As for Vesps, they had reptilian ancestors that were in essence convergent mimics to vampire bats, or vice-versa, since they came before them.

As these vampire Pterodactyls evolved, they learned to hunt massive swarms, feeding on anything organic that makes noise, this was seen in grisly actuality when unexpected cave explorers released them from their limiting cave biomes.

This theme is also mirrored in the movies Piranha, where prehistoric flesh-eating fish are released from their limited habitat by earthquake or human meddling, so the Vesps in this regard are like Piranha and the film notes a tribute to that notion.

WARNING: Film Spoilers Ahead...

After a group of cave divers accidentally unleashes the vesps, they quickly blanket the entire Eastern Seaboard and attack people.

A cave research team unearths an unknown species of pterosaur-like creature, referred to as "vesps", from a mine. The vesps violently kill the researchers, fly out of the mine, and seek the noisiest areas.

Ally Andrews, a teenage girl who lost her hearing in a car accident, lives with her parents Hugh and Kelly Andrews, her maternal grandmother Lynn, who has terminal lung cancer, her brother Jude, and a pet dog. As news of the vesp outbreak spreads, the U.S. government declares a state of emergency and asks people to stay indoors and quiet.

Hugh recommended the family to put their cellphones on silent mode, and, they see four videos, one showing two victims running, the second one showing a mother and her child in a car.

The child has her mouth taped, and the mother shows a note written, "Don't make noise".

The third one shows the cave research team screaming, and it cuts to another shot of the vesps fleeing, shortly before getting interrupted by an emergency broadcast.

Ally suggests they head to the countryside, which is likely to be quieter. Glenn, Hugh's best friend, joins them and brings his guns. They set out in two cars, but a man tries to hijack Hugh's car, risking the family. Glenn shoots the man in the leg, and they drive away.

The group hits a massive traffic jam, blocking all the interstates, and Glenn goes off-road. Speeding through the countryside, Glenn's car hits a herd of fleeing deer and tumbles down the embankment. He survives but is trapped in the car. Hugh and Kelly fail to free him, and Glenn asks Hugh to leave.

As the Andrews family returns to their car, their dog barks, attracting the vesps. Glenn fires his gun, leading them away from the Andrews and sacrificing himself. To keep his family safe, Hugh is forced to let their dog out of the car to die.

Hugh leads his family on foot after setting Glenn's car on fire as a decoy. Lynn struggles to keep up, and her coughing puts the family at risk. The family finds a house with a high fence and locked gate.

The homeowner, unaware of the situation, comes out and speaks and the vesps rip her apart. The family uses a storm drain to enter the house. A rattlesnake appears in front of Jude, attracting the vesps with its rattle they proceed to attack it.

The attracted vesps bite Kelly's leg from behind. Hugh distracts them by turning on a woodchipper, crushing the vesps flying into it, and the family enters the house.

Ally contacts her boyfriend, Rob, who tells her his parents are dead. She learns that religious cults have sprung up in the wake of the disaster. By morning, Kelly's wound is infected, so Hugh and Ally leave to find antibiotics.

At the store, Ally discovers vesp eggs growing inside corpses.

The tongueless reverend of a cult tries to recruit them, but Hugh and Ally leave. They return with the antibiotics and Kelly recovers.

Ally learns from the internet that vesps cannot survive in the cold, prompting the family in planning to head to the north.

The reverend finds the family's hide-out and shows up with his followers, revealing that he intends to recruit Ally. Hugh brings out his gun, forcing the cultists to leave. Rob lets Ally know he is headed north to "the refuge". Hugh and Kelly find a little girl at the door in the middle of the night.

After letting her in, they find she is a member of the tongueless cult.

Phones strapped to her and placed around the house go off, attracting vesps. The cult members abduct Ally but Grandma Lynn runs outside to help her. Lynn holds Ally's captors down and screams; vesps kill her and the captors while Ally escapes.

The family fights back and kills most of the cult, including the reverend.

Weeks later, the family treks across the U.S. and arrives at the refuge.

Ally finds Rob and they hunt the vesps with arrows. Ally wonders whether the vesps will adapt to the cold and whether humans will adapt to a soundless lifestyle, like she did when she lost her hearing.

REMARKS:

Comparison to A Quiet Place...

The Silence was compared to A Quiet Place, a 2018 horror film with a similar premise.
The novel The Silence was published in 2015, and filming of the adaptation took place in 2017, at the same time as A Quiet Place.

While The Silence was acquired by a distributor, it was not released in theaters and was later picked up by Netflix. Quartz's Adam Epstein said while the parallel productions were coincidental, he compared The Silence to mockbusters (low-budget films that exploit blockbusters), highlighting that one of its screenwriters, Shane Van Dyke, wrote several scripts for The Asylum, a studio that specializes in mockbusters.

The novel's author Tim Lebbon admitted that the two films' similarities are "a little troubling" and defended the film adaptation of his novel, "There are similarities, of course, but I'm confident that the movie of The Silence will stand on its own."

The Guardian's Charles Bramesco called The Silence "a shoddy remix" of A Quiet Place and said, "The Silence exists for the sole purpose of being digitally sorted into a list of recommendations For Viewers Who Liked Bird Box, though that classification would be more accurately clocked as For Viewers Who Liked A Quiet Place... the demographic they're really after would be something closer to Viewers Who Have Trouble Telling Similar Things Apart."

Decider's Anna Menta compared the films, "The Silence is much darker and gorier than A Quiet Place," and found The Silence to look low-budget in production values.

Menta said The Silence was started before the invasion while A Quiet Place was set fully after the invasion. She noted the criticism of The Silence for having a hearing actor as a deaf character and highlighted its additional elements, a teen romance and a religious cult.

Writing for Comic Book Resources, Renaldo Matadeen contrasted The Silence from A Quiet Place, writing, "There are quite a few plot threads which make it clear the Netflix movie is far from a rip-off and is, in fact, it's own thing." Matadeen said The Silence's deaf teenage girl can read lips and speak, "After a while, you almost forget Ally is deaf, resulting in the film lacking some of the genuine tension of A Quiet Place.

He found the creatures "totally different" as well as the times compared to the creature invasion.

While both films have "a somewhat similar format" in families trying to survive the creatures, "In The Silence, we get interference from external segments of mankind via the Hushed."