He is a man who studies abnormal psychology and seems very interested in the supernatural, but like any doctor I’m sure you have dealt with, once he sets his mind to a diagnosis, he utterly refuses to stray from it. She is seemingly possessed by this being named Evie and has lived an unfortunate life of going from foster home to foster home until she ends up in the care of Professor Joseph’s (Jared Harris). Jane (Olivia Cooke) is a rather odd girl. Plus, Jared Harris I thought was decent on Mad Men, so I figured that despite me not being a big time fan of the horror genre, maybe this could be one of those exceptions. However, being that I like Olivia Cooke on Bates Motel, I thought it was worth giving a chance.
The quiet ones movie#
I dropped this from my movie watching schedule when it first came out because the first reviews for it were bad. Either way, I’d like to see Hammer Film Productions do better, because they keep hinting that they have it in them to do so.A young possessed girl lives off the feign hope which a nearly insane doctor provides. It shows a filmmaker who is not confident that they have their audience, or one who is strictly making a film for teens looking for an assault on their senses. Anything else is the stuff of amateurs or charlatans, in my opinion, with very few exceptions. They increase the sense of danger because they are dangerous – they’re not cats or birds or idiot friends bumbling unexpectedly into the camera shot. That film has plenty of jump scares but they are always something worth getting scared about. Sure, the person watching the movie involuntarily jumped, but a second later they’re laughing and not at all scared.Ī jump scare should be earned and it should be a part of the danger, such as in the way James Wan employs them in Insidious (2010). By doing continuous jump scares, whatever tension that was built is immediately lost. Instead they keep us at a distance by throwing things in our faces or battering our eardrums. I wish that these Hammer films, which show so much potential, would also show more confidence in their craft and allow the audience, meaning us, to immerse ourselves in the film. Plus, the film’s promising first two acts are squandered on a disappointing ending that is not really worthy of what came before. This is often achieved by ratcheting up the volume to an absurd decibel which stops being scary and quickly becomes annoying, making the movie’s title an irritatingly ironic misnomer.
When the film is restrained it excels, but too often it seems to seek to meet a jump scare quota every three minutes. She’s able to transition from menacing to a sweet vulnerability in a convincing manner. Additionally, the acting is good, particularly by Olivia Cooke, who plays the tortured girl. Once again, the sets are nicely done and at times the cinematography and lighting is very appealing. The film is largely seen through the eyes of the working-class local hired to film the girl’s treatments, and so the film continually transitions from traditional narrative to his docu-style footage. Perhaps not surprisingly, the experiment was considered a failure by critics. Philip was the name of a fictionalized ghost that the researchers sought to manifest by the sheer will of the experiment’s participants, helped by traditional séance conditions.
It is loosely based upon the actual 1972 parapsychological Philip experiment which was conducted in Toronto, Canada. The story is set in 1974 where an Oxford professor and three young people set out to use science to help a young woman tormented by what she believes is a spirit. Directed by John Pogue, The Quiet Ones falls into many of the same traps. What could have been a new tension-filled Gothic classic instead became an incessant assault of things flying at the screen to the point where tension was too often lost. The earlier film dripped with superb sets and exquisite costume designs but was too reliant on jump scares, including those damned fake ones, to be anything truly remarkable for me.
The Quiet Ones (2014) is another installment of the Hammer Film Productions revival, coming two years after the generally well-received The Woman in Black (2012).
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