Directed by:
John PogueCinematography:
Mátyás ErdélyComposer:
Lucas VidalCast:
Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Olivia Cooke, Max Pirkis, Erin Richards, Eileen Nicholas, Richard Cunningham, Rory Fleck Byrne, Laurie Calvert, Aldo Maland (more)VOD (1)
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In a secluded estate, Professor Coupland along with a team of his students conduct an "experiment" on Jane Harper, a young girl who harbors unspeakable secrets. What dark forces they uncover are more terrifying than any of them expected. Jane Harper is a deeply troubled girl possessed of an all-consuming blackness, and Professor Joseph Coupland has a particularly unconventional plan for getting the darkness out of her. Summoning his top students to a secluded estate on the outskirts of London, Professor Coupland proposes that they attempt to manifest the malevolent energy in Jane. What the brilliant instructor and his ambitious students discover when they attempt to do so, however, is a horror so unrelentingly baleful and powerful that it may destroy them all before they even realize what a terrible mistake they've made. (official distributor synopsis)
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Hammer has resurrected, but taking into account the quality of their new stuff, I wonder if it shouldn’t have remained buried. With the exception of Woman in Black (which, given the director it had available, was actually below expectations), the only films they’ve delivered so far are average and pointless, which is exactly the case of The Quiet Ones. It has a fairly nice set design and style and the director does try to build an atmosphere, but despite all those efforts, it just didn’t make it for me, it was terribly boring. Really, I can’t remember when was the last time that I felt so incredibly bored with a horror film (that didn’t have zero ambitions). And this is not a movie where nothing happens, here “something” is happening all the time, the problem is how blandly it’s delivered: monotonous, unobtrusive, without any rhythm or escalation. And with a very worn out premise and uninteresting characters, to boot, which I don’t care a priori, provided the filmmakers can compensate it with something. But here there’s nothing, just an annoying blend of a classic film with period “found footage” images. An awful drag.
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This horror movie gets off to a promising start. Then time keeps passing, and you realize that there's nothing promising left there anymore and that all expectations have dissolved into something uncomfortably skeletal. The film tries to appear surprising, and different, but in reality, it doesn't have anything interesting in it, just that pretense towards the audience.
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