A Quite Place to Kill is a Twisted Affair of Murder and Romance

Have you ever seen a film that featured so many twists and turns that you felt kind of dizzy after the film ended?

That was me when it came to A Quiet Place to Kill.

The story follows a race car driver named Helen who gets into a car crash in the beginning of the film, after hallucinating her ex — husband, Maurice.

After Helen recovers, she receives an invitation to go visit her ex — husband and his new wife, Constance.

Curious, Helen decides to go and visit the couple, only for the viewer to discover crazy things about all three characters:

Maurice reveals that he is still in love with Helen.

Constance wants Helen to kill Maurice for being unfaithful to them both.

Helen tried to kill Maurice during their marriage, and she is also still in love with him.

Sounds like these characters are already pretty insane, huh? You don’t know the half of it…the twists that follow are next level…

Helen and Constance plan to kill Maurice, but then Helen changes her mind and helps Maurice kill Constance.

I felt like I had gotten on a roller coaster during this scene. I was not expecting such a crazy reversal of Helen deciding she wanted to stay with Maurice.

Helen and Constance were planning Maurice’s murder for so long, only for it to backfire, and Maurice decides to kill Constance to stay with Helen.

I should have expected the twist, we literally get a glimpse into the mind of Helen since the beginning of the film, making it obvious that she is still infatuated with Maurice.

Helen proceeds to lose her mind for the rest of the film, and then freaks out when Constance’s daughter, Susan, comes to visit, demanding answers as to what happened to her mother.

What happens next is…wow.

Maurice secretly makes a plan to get rid of Helen, once he realizes that she will never keep their dark secret.

Helen experiences a psychological downfall during the third act of the film, and once Susan arrives, everything leads to madness with her character. She catches Maurice seducing Susan, and Helen completely loses her mind. Helen drives away in a car freaking fast, and she unsurprisingly gets into a car accident, ending her own life.

Then we get another twist of Maurice and Susan rejoicing in their victory, happy they can now be together. Everything instantly goes wrong for Maurice, when people discover the body of Susan's mother, ending Maurice’s killing spree.

The film ends with Susan looking shocked, as Maurice looks pretty pissed off. I'm still curious about the movie's ending when it comes to Susan's character. Did she know about her mother's murder, and did she not give a damn? Or was she naive, and truly believed that Maurice had nothing to do with her mother's murder?

I don't think the outcome really mattered, because wow...every single woman was obsessed with Maurice in this film.

I don’t get why so many women were obsessed with this bastard. If they all knew that he was constantly cheating on them, why not just dump the guy? And I found it so gross that he decided to get with Susan, knowing that he was married to her mother.

Barf.

He was a player that was never going to change, I don’t get why these women decided that murder would be the best option?

Instead, they were all used by him, helping him with his dark deeds.

Bastard.

Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn