'A Quiet Place' Fans Have A Nickname For The Creatures, But The Director Told Us What They Are Called On Set, And It’s Not What I Expected

A Quiet Place Day One - interview with Joseph Quinn and Lupita Nyong'o

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00:00A weird thing about this franchise is there's no official name for the aliens.

00:04Yeah.

00:06I feel like, well, we mainly call them monsters.

00:10We start with monsters.

00:11Yeah.

00:12We haven't got nicknames for them.

00:13Creatures, but no nicknames.

00:15Yeah, I don't know if you guys nailed one down specifically.

00:18Do you have a name to give us?

00:20I think we should just give it like a really cute human name, like Fred or something.

00:25Cateans.

00:26Yeah, perfect.

00:27Happy, that's sort of the name that ILM gave them in designing them very early on.

00:32And so often happy, otherwise we just call them the creature usually.

00:37I know online a lot of people call them death angels, but we never really call them that.

00:41But yeah, happy is usually the term.

00:44Happy is good.

00:45There's something twisted about that name.