Synopsis
A professor and his students perform a dangerous experiment that causes a young woman to lose her sanity.
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Cast
- Jared HarrisProfessor Coupland
- Sam ClaflinBrian McNeil
- Olivia CookeJane Harper
- Erin RichardsKristina Dalton
- Rory Fleck-ByrneHarry Abrams
- Laurie Paul CalvertPhillip
- Max PirkisDavid Q
- Richard CunninghamProvost
- Aldo Malandyoung David Q
- Rebecca ScottStudent #1
Recommendations
- 63
Slant Magazine
If the stock concessions made to genre cliché by The Woman in Black can be charitably viewed as deliberate tips of the hat to the heyday of Hammer Films, then John Pogue's period-set exorcism yarn The Quiet Ones more interestingly upends those tropes. - 60
Empire
Messier than recent Hammer output, but effectively chilling when it’s not making us feel the noize. - 60
Total Film
There’s creepy dolls, cameras tipped on their side, blasts of white noise and a horny teenage Scooby gang helping Jared Harris’ Oxford prof stir up a poltergeist in the mind of a moody emo girl (Olivia Cooke). - 60
The Guardian
The arrestingly fierce Cooke, in particular, is surely a star in the making. - 50
Variety
The 1970s setting offers a retro feel that should strike appealing chords for fans of old-school horror, but there’s little here that’s exactly new or fresh. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The film relies on high production values and sense-battering shock tactics to make up for wooden performances and an illogical, silly script. As an exercise in retro pastiche, it impresses. But as a postmodern genre reinvention, it fails to deliver. - 50
The New York Times
There are nice touches... Yet many of the movie’s more nominally horrific elements are too familiar. - 40
Time Out London
There are a couple of decent jumps and a few giggles, but nothing armrest-clenchingly scary about The Quiet Ones.
