University Professor Joseph Coupland, two of his students and a selected cameraman, are participating in an experiment to prove that people who claim they are "possessed" are actually just mentally ill. Coupland already has a patient in his care, a girl named Jane who's been abandoned continuously throughout her life but seems to generate a strange phenomena. This phenomena manifests as negative energy and takes the form of an infant doll-like creature, only Jane sees, named "Evey". The more the students witness, the more convinced they becomes that there is more to "Evey" than meets the eye, but Coupland is reluctant to believe this, and the more he refuses to believe, the more sinister "Evey" becomes.
The Quiet Ones is another of those movies that looks good in the trailers but is actually a pretty boring film overall. For about the first 50 minutes or so, nothing really happens at all, and there are a couple of moments that make you think it's about to pick up, but it doesn't. It does pick up in the last 30 minutes, but not by much.
It's not really that scary either with the scares mainly coming in the form of sudden loud noises and other "jump scares". These moments may make you jump, but it doesn't mean they scare you and the film relies too much on this tactic. The atmosphere is quite decent, but this is about the only real positive in the movie for me.
One thing I noticed is that not long after the movie started, the cameraman - Brian - was told by Coupland not to look into the eyes of Jane or even talk to her as he didn't want outside interference risking the results of the experiment. Queue the next scene and there's Brian chatting away to Jane looking right at her. Now, if a movie like this is to be taken seriously then there shouldn't be such an obvious story hole, and if it's not a hole then it's just really poorly written.
Pretty boring, quite non-eventful, and just a step above a total yawn-fest. This is one that you don't mind missing.
The Quiet Ones is another of those movies that looks good in the trailers but is actually a pretty boring film overall. For about the first 50 minutes or so, nothing really happens at all, and there are a couple of moments that make you think it's about to pick up, but it doesn't. It does pick up in the last 30 minutes, but not by much.
It's not really that scary either with the scares mainly coming in the form of sudden loud noises and other "jump scares". These moments may make you jump, but it doesn't mean they scare you and the film relies too much on this tactic. The atmosphere is quite decent, but this is about the only real positive in the movie for me.
One thing I noticed is that not long after the movie started, the cameraman - Brian - was told by Coupland not to look into the eyes of Jane or even talk to her as he didn't want outside interference risking the results of the experiment. Queue the next scene and there's Brian chatting away to Jane looking right at her. Now, if a movie like this is to be taken seriously then there shouldn't be such an obvious story hole, and if it's not a hole then it's just really poorly written.
Pretty boring, quite non-eventful, and just a step above a total yawn-fest. This is one that you don't mind missing.