
Jane Harper (Olivia Cooke) is a deeply troubled girl possessed of an all-consuming blackness, and Professor Joseph Coupland (Jared Harris) 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, howeve... (Full plot summary below)
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Jane Harper (Olivia Cooke) is a deeply troubled girl possessed of an all-consuming blackness, and Professor Joseph Coupland (Jared Harris) 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..
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| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAside from a few cheap but effective shocks and jumps, there's nothing here that horror fans haven't seen in better recent films like "The Conjuring." Not to mention all of those wonderful Hammer films from the '50s and '60s. |
| Film.comJames RocchiWorth making a little noise about if you’re a horror fan. |
| The PlaylistDrew TaylorWhile the movie is not without its charms, there's nothing indicating that it's actually a Hammer movie. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyIf you look at a horror movie’s prime directive to be to scare the viewer, there’s no denying that, at times, The Quiet Ones got me. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezIf 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. |
| The GuardianMike McCahillThe arrestingly fierce Cooke, in particular, is surely a star in the making. |
| Total FilmPaul BradshawThere’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). |
| The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowdall the retro production design in the world can’t disguise the sheer familiarity of the film’s paranormal parlor tricks. |
| The DissolveScott TobiasHarris’ wondrous arrogance as Coupland nearly justifies The Quiet Ones, because he’s so absolutely certain of a methodology that’s so absolutely incoherent. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisThere are nice touches... Yet many of the movie’s more nominally horrific elements are too familiar. |