The Quiet Ones

 

The Quiet Ones 2014

• Director: John Pogue
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Erin Richards, Rory Fleck Byrne, Olivia Cooke
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Jared Harris – Fringe, Sherlock Holms Game of Shadows, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Igby Goes Down, How to Kill Your Neighbour’s Dog, Dead Man, Smoke
• Sam Claflin – Adrift, Their Finest, Snow White Hunter’s War, Hunger Games, Pirates of the Caribbean, United, Pillars of the Earth
• Erin Richards – Misfits, Merlin
• Olivia Cooke – Ready Player One
• Why? I don’t know, really.
• Seen: 30 May 2021      

       Oxford 1974. The supernatural. Science. Ghosts. Experiments. Religion. Devils. Documentation. Madness.

       Brian (Claflin) is hired by semi-mad professor Joseph (Harris) to document his on-going experiment – coaxing a violent poltergeist from mental patient Jane (Cooke) to contain it. Joseph is convinced it’s just madness, and when he succeeds he will have found the cure for all humanity’s madness.

       It’s an odd, rather unpleasant film but it’s also a well-crafted and creepy horror film with good actors. 

3* of 5 (Hal says 4.)