A Quiet Place: Day One has been a massive box-office hit with the biggest debut of the series, but we get it if some of you were sceptical about seeing it on its opening weekend.
Ever since the first trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One landed, horror fans have been filled with dread over what happens in the prequel.
No, not over whether or not Samira (Lupita Nyong'o) or Eric (Joseph Quinn) survive the apocalypse. We love those two, but even they might admit they're not the most important characters.
We're talking about Samira's service cat Frodo, played expertly in the movie by Schnitzel and Nico (yes, they have their own Instagram): does Frodo survive the movie?
For some, it could be a deal-breaker. The kind of thing you'd want to know going in to know whether you can handle the movie emotionally.
So we're here to help by revealing whether or not Frodo dies in the movie. We'll avoid spoilers where possible, aside from Frodo's fate of course, but if you don't want to know anything, look away now.
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Does the cat die in A Quiet Place: Day One?
You can rest assured: Frodo survives the events of A Quiet Place: Day One with barely a scratch on him.
It's not for the want of trying. Frodo regularly wanders off on his own, casually strolling past multiple aliens and risking the lives of Samira and Eric as they try to rescue Frodo from the mess he's unaware he's in.
Luckily, Frodo rarely makes a noise and if you think that's a 'plot hole', then writer/director Michael Sarnoski has a good explanation for that. "I read a study about how a lot of meowing is learned behaviour. It's how they communicate with human beings," he noted.
"When cats are on their own, they don't meow that much. So I figured that when the apocalypse happens and everyone’s gone, they would maybe keep it down."
Sarnoski added to The Hollywood Reporter that Frodo was never really in any danger and wasn't going to be killed off.
"It always made sense that the cat is passed along and would carry on. If you're gonna kill an animal, it's got to be for a really meaningful reason. Otherwise, you're just being cruel to the audience," he explained.
By the end of the movie, Frodo is on a boat to the island we saw in A Quiet Place Part II. He's on the same boat as Djimon Hounsou's Man on Island – who we now know to be called Henri – and since we saw him leading the colony in the sequel, Frodo was on one of the two evacuation boats to safely make it to the island.
Of course, we never actually saw Frodo on that island in the sequel (because Day One didn't exist yet). In the finale of Part II, the island's colony was attacked by a sole alien, who was eventually killed by Regan.
We choose to believe that through that carnage, Frodo was hiding away safely somewhere and continues to live his best life – and you can't say anything to change our minds.
For more on A Quiet Place: Day One, check out:
• A Quiet Place: Day One review
• How long is A Quiet Place: Day One?
• Everything you need to know about A Quiet Place 3
• How Stranger Things helped Joseph Quinn on A Quiet Place: Day One
• Lupita Nyong'o had "cat therapy" for A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One is out now in cinemas.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
