elcome to the experiment,” says seedy-tweedy Professor Coupland to his new documentarian, AV geek Brian, not quite adding “Bwahahahaha!” to the greeting, but you can almost hear it anyway. For we’re already starting to suspect that the academic is a little bit mad and a little bit sadistic; also, he’s Jared Harris (The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones), who brings his usual offhand creepiness to the screen. Brian (Sam Claflin: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) is not one of Coupland’s students at Oxford University — “I’d never get in here,” he laments — which makes him the perfect outside observer and resident skeptic as Coupland, with the assistance of a couple of students/acolytes, attempts to cure his “psychotic” subject, Jane Harper (Olivia Cooke), who definitely Ain’t Right in a horror-movie sort of way. Coupland believes that there is something scientific and psychiatric, not supernatural, behind what appears to be Jane’s demonic possession, and he is going to prove his theory and show all those scoffers back in the faculty lounge, bwahahaha. The year is 1974, and so Brian’s documenting of the experiment happens via giant clunky film cameras, some footage from which is shared with us, and though The Quiet Ones in no way purports to be a Paranormal Activity-style documentary, director John Pogue’s mix of straight-up narrative and faux retro faux found footage adds to the overall spookiness in a way that the usual horror-flick claim that what we are witnessing was “inspired by actual events” does not. There aren’t many outright scares here, and when they do come, they are curiously circumspect — so as not to bounce the film up into R/18 territory, I suspect. But once the experiment moves to a creaky old house out in the remote countryside, thanks to complaints from neighbors in town and the university pulling Coupland’s funding, the old-fashioned Hammer Horror atmosphere cranks up, and not just because of the 70s-era fug of cigarette smoke hanging over the proceedings
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After justifying their reanimation with decent adaptations Let Me In (2010) and The Woman in Black (2012), Hammer’s latest film, The Quiet Ones, is a lopsided swerve into hack banality. Despite an intriguing central concept about real-life experiments on personality disorders, an area that has not proved the basis for a truly interesting horror since the excellent Session 9 (2001), The Quiet Ones also mixes telekinesis and demonic possession into the equation for, what should be an alluring concoction, but one that is sloppily executed with botched results.
Watch the quiet ones full Movie Download 2014 Oxford Professor Coupland (Jared Harris) gathers a gamut of renegade students to develop and harness a poltergeist from a teenage girl’s (Olivia Cooke) alternative personality in attempt exorcise it and cure her disorder. After the department’s finances are pulled the gang gather in an appropriately eerie estate to conduct further experiments, trigger a flurry of jiggery CGI fright sequences and uncover some hidden secrets about each other in the process (basically who fancies who).
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Director John Pogue (Quarantine 2: Terminal) needlessly hews exhausted clichés from similar, better pictures to deliver a slice of lugubrious tripe. Rather than generate fears from the plot, characters and performances, The Quiet Ones resorts to unimaginative boo jumps while riffing on traits from 70′s horrors such as The Omen (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979) and The Exorcist (1973), which it directly references, along with the found-footage films of recent years.
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