Candy and a Movie: The Quiet Ones (October Movie 9)

The Quiet Ones

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2235779/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

I kind of like that movie poster. I remember seeing the commercial for this movie during a Bates Motel episode and wanted to see it because the possessed girl plays a character on Bates too. She's not particuarly great or anything, my brain just saw the connection and wanted to see it. The dumb movie marketers know me better than I know myself I suppose. Anyway I think I'm getting in the habit of adding the trailers in these now so here it is followed by the plot review.

A professor at Oxford, a few of his students and a camera guy are observing a possessed girl and doing experiments to "cure" her in 1974. We get a few sights of the loco chick (Jane) before their funding is pulled resulting in them having to move their work to a giant house somewhere in the country. The camera catches a car door opening by itself so the spirit has moved with them.

Experiment one involves the team asking Jane questions while she's hooked up to a machine. No dice. They conduct more experiments with barely anything happens. Two of the students bang which is common in horror movies of course. One night the cameraman (Brian) checks in on Jane and she's cut a symbol into her leg with a bobby pin, which isn’t cool at all. Later the professor starts hooking up the skanky student who seems to be getting with everybody. They aren’t super worried about Jane I guess.

More experiments. Jane burns her hands on a doll in one test and the professor has his hand bit in another. Brian starts looking at the film and thinks it's all bs because spirits aren’t real and stuff. To prove his theory to everyone else, he stabs Jane’s doll, which makes her scream and throw up blood all the way across the house. Coolest thing to happen yet. The professor is trying to prove that Jane is making all of this up in her brain and it's coming to life because of it. Seems plausible. The slutty chick get attacked by the spirit while Jane is asleep which means if Jane’s brain (cool rhyme) is the one doing the attacking, it can now attack in her subconscious.

Later that night Jane goes missing. This is most not good. The group finds her in the creepy pitch-black attic. Jane says she sees the spirit that’s been following her in a crib and finds a charred fetus mark there. I’ve never seen that particular mark before but once you’ve seen it, you know exactly what it is. She reaches in to pick it up and it lights her stomach on fire, leaving a Satanist mark on her skin. Ooooo. The slutty assistant and the first guy she’s banging have had too much and leave. Jane makes a move on Brian but gets turned down because she's a possessed crazy person. Smart move Brian.

Brian goes back to do a little research on the mark that’s now on Jane’s tummy and finds out the ghost is really a girl that died along with 40 Satanists 20 years ago. The professor thinks its irrelevant stupid nonsense and gets pissed at the rest of the team. He turns into the villain and fire Brian right away.

Big ending time. Everyone starts fighting with professor and Jane burns all of their skins with the mark. The skank tries to run away but is sucked up into the second story of the house by the spirit and dies. Best death of the movie and apparently it was supposed to be even better but a lot was cut out of it due to budget/rating reasons. The first guy gets his neck snapped. Jane tells Brian that she is the little girl from the Satanist group (never died like the report said she did) and there's evil inside of her. The professor sneaks behind them and knocks the two out. Professor Butthole comes up with the plan to kill Jane to kill the spirit and then recuscitate her really quickly so she comes back to life sans evil demon. It doesn’t work she's still super possessed. She seems to know this and lights herself on fire. That’s the end for Jane. Later Brian is shown in the police station lighting his hand on fire so I guess he's possessed now. The end.

Rating: 5.9 This was a very average supernatural horror movie. Nothing about it will make you really like it while at the same time you won’t be bored. It’s worth watching once for free somewhere is what I’m getting at. I liked the tone and the feel of this taking place in the 70s. The actress who played Jane did a pretty solid job. It didn’t have much of an ending, which was a bummer.

Favorite Scene: Definitely in the attic. That was the only real scene of suspense where you come close to having that edge of you seat feeling. Nothing super crazy happened but at least it made me felt like something could have. I just want to feel people!

Memorable Quotes: I don’t remember any.

What I would’ve done as the main character: The main character in this is Brian the cameraman. First of all if I hear that someone is possessed in real life, I’m doing the opposite of getting a closer look. Instead I would get a job at the BBC being a blue planet camera guy or something and just read about what happened to the possession teams bodies in the newspaper (they still had those in the 70s).

What happens in the sequel: Well I guess Brian is possessed. Maybe now that will get him to show a little emotion (burn). You know what was big and evil sounding in 1974 England? Black Sabbath. Ozzy bites the head off of the doll that seems to be tied in with the demon and kills the immortal spirit. Very classy, very metal ending.