Eight years ago, The Office star John Krasinski showed a very different side of his talents by jumping behind the camera to direct the horror hit, A Quiet Place. The post-apocalyptic feature, following a family trying to survive in a world brought to its knees by blind alien creatures who can hear their every move, was lauded for its original, emotional premise focused on parenthood and earned a staggering worldwide haul of over $340 million against a reported budget of just $17 million. Krasinski continued the Abbott family’s story just two years later with A Quiet Place: Part II, while Michael Sarnoski further fleshed out the world with the prequel, A Quiet Place: Day One back in 2024, bringing the franchise up to nearly $1 billion total and cementing the series as a modern horror classic. After a lengthy wait, Part III is finally set to happen next year, but before then, the aliens are going to idyllic new places.
IDW Dark, the horror imprint of comic giant IDW Publishing, is introducing a new five-issue comic set in the world of A Quiet Place, but centered on a locale never explored in the films — the Florida Keys. Set to debut in November, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides centers on a woman named Grace and her estranged father who, just before the sound-sensitive aliens arrived, reunited on a run-down houseboat. Expecting disappointment and resentment, Grace is suddenly forced into a fight for survival with the man she has very complex feelings for when the invasion leaves them stranded. On the one hand, the open waters are safe from the apex predators who can hear the slightest breath, but with her sick and aging dad’s oxygen running low, supplies dwindling, and the creatures quickly learning, they’re operating on borrowed time. To make matters worse, a hurricane is approaching that further jeopardizes their survival. It’s one of a couple of new titles IDW Dark is rolling out based on Paramount franchises, joining Any Given Smile based on Parker Finn‘s Smile series.
The premise fits with the general themes of family in A Quiet Place, albeit in a different way than the dynamic between Evelyn (Emily Blunt), Lee (Krasinski), and their kids. Acclaimed writer and artist duo Declan Shalvey and Luke Sparrow are behind the comic, and Shalvey even illustrated a cover that oozes Floridian aesthetic. Entertainment Weekly exclusively previewed the comic by sharing Shalvey’s art, depicting the harrowing situation of Grace and her dad by showing an alien on top of the crashed houseboat as the sun sets and alligators circle. The Irish writer told EW that he aimed for his setting to be a unique case where the geography and weather played into how the survivors battle the aliens. On that front, Florida gave him a lot of tools to work with.
“I’ve spent some time in Florida. It’s beautiful and sunny and then, all of a sudden, the earth just pours water down on top of you. It’s not like that in Ireland. I thought that would be a good narrative and visual tool to use in the story.”
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
What Do We Know About ‘A Quiet Place: Part III’ So Far?
An alien standing atop a wrecked boat on the cover of A Quiet Place: Rising TidesImage via IDW Publishing/Entertainment Weekly
Filming on A Quiet Place: Part III began back in May, but Krasinski has kept his cards close to the vest when it comes to the story. All that’s known for certain is that it’ll be the final chapter in his planned trilogy centering on the Abbotts and that it will take place sometime after Part II‘s ending, where Regan’s (Millicent Simmonds) cochlear implant was used to disrupt the aliens through a high-frequency radio broadcast. Blunt, Simmonds, and Noah Jupe are all set to reprise their roles, joining the also-returning Cillian Murphy as the Abbotts’ family friend, Emmett. A few newcomers are attached as well, led by Sinners and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple villain Jack O’Connell, alongside Katy O’Brien and Jason Clarke.
A Quiet Place: Rising Tides launches in November and is available to pre-order now through local comic shops. Check out the cover courtesy of EW above.
