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 The Quiet Ones The Quiet Ones Quote: The Quiet Ones is a British Hammer horror film directed by John Pogue. The film has a projected release date of April 10, 2014 in the United Kingdom and April 25, 2014 in the United States. The film stars Jared Harris as a college professor attempting to create a poltergeist. The film is being marketed as being based upon a true story.
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David
Pure Phase
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Re: The Quiet Ones The Quiet Ones is a dud. A dispiriting truth since it is a rare release by Hammer, the once-legendary, then-defunct, now-revived British production company who defined the genre in the nation in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. This new film includes halfhearted nods toward the best and brightest of Hammer, including a Gothic rural estate where much of the action unfolds, but its various elements and tensions never adhere into a satisfying whole, and it is at times downright daft and dull. Jared Harris and his cigarettes star as an Oxford academic who is trying to prove unwell people can manifest phenomena. He rolls his eyes at the notion of magic, but is certain people can start fires and move furniture with their minds as long as they are, I don't know, super insane. In this film's world, however, he is positioned as the staunch defender of the rational awaiting an education by demon fire. With two students and a local cameraman, he retires to the aforementioned estate to research and treat (read: torture) one Jane Harper, a troubled woman with a long history of foster families and purported supernatural abilities.
There is an interesting story buried in this film: one of a perfectly volatile pairing of a self-righteous, unyielding doctor and a desperate patient who at once justify and harm one another, caught in a dance of death disguised as unconventional treatment. Harris is a capable actor who plays convincing notes of tenured pomposity, and relative fresh face Olivia Cooke has an engaging and otherworldly quality as the put-upon Jane, creating a character who is both menacing and melancholy. Alas, the potent qualities they generate are adrift in an uneven bump-in-the-night film which relies far, far too much on standard-issue "boo" jolts and slams harshly into a wall of pitiful nonsense in its ear-punishing, I.Q.-lowering third act.
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Magic Mike
Wallflower
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Location: Minnesota
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Re: The Quiet Ones This was not very good. Liked the 70's setting and Olivia Cooke was very good. Sam Claflin was also really likable and easy on the eyes. But the movie is just kind of dull. The plot is muddled and the ending is pretty generic. Just doesn't do much interesting. Will make an OK time-waster on Blu-ray though. I've seen worse, but I've seen much better (*cough*Oculus*cough* just a recent example).
5/10 ( C )
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