While the movie has all the feel of a classic Hammer production (old buildings, dark shadows, moody set pieces), the story never really has enough oomph.

| Jul 17, 2020

Although there are some script holes and unanswered questions, and yes, some of the unavoidable horror tropes, at the end of the day, there's nothing quiet about The Quiet Ones. It screams frightening terror.

| Dec 14, 2019

A solid, entertaining effort that suggests the freshly-risen corpse of Hammer Studios won't be returning to the crypt any time soon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2019

With its intelligent approach to its story, a solid cast, and just enough scares to keep the interest from flagging, The Quiet Ones is a worthy if slightly flawed entry into the Hammer canon.

| Mar 6, 2019

A script crying for a horror backbone is frustratingly weak for the most part, its tedious jump-scares no substitute.

| Feb 28, 2019

Something interesting could have manifested within The Quiet Ones, but the whole show turns out to be a generic but polished mediocrity.

| Oct 10, 2018

As far as the aesthetics of the film, "The Quiet Ones" is marvelous.

| Aug 30, 2018

A stylish and ably acted yet ultimately lacklustre psychological horror that's as predictable as it is almost entirely devoid of bona fide scares.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2018

An unmitigated disaster...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 27, 2018

The Quiet Ones doesn't work to earn any true terror from us.

| May 23, 2018

A ballsy little number that decided to sit on the fence halfway through and revert back to the usual horror clichs we've become accustomed to over the years.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 12, 2018

The Quiet Ones is a horror movie that knows how to make its audience squirm, alternating a creepy, unsettling quiet with explosive outbursts and gruesomely realistic violence.

| Original Score: B | Nov 29, 2017

This one floats right through the eyes, past the brain, and out the other side with little more than a whiff on the old neurons.

| Original Score: C | Jun 6, 2016

"The Quiet Ones" is elegant genre work, and Harris' performance is delightful - over the top, but delightful - his annunciation alone worth the price of admission.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2016

Well-shot, well-acted and, well, kinda boring.

| Aug 23, 2015

We get the prerequisite booga-booga, often visualized incoherently via grainy footage.

| Original Score: D | Jul 14, 2015

There is a lot to admire as the film embraces a pleasing brand of old-school chills over modern-day, pop-culture hipness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 19, 2014

With its many desperate attempts at scares and a completely lacking narrative, "The Quiet Ones" is a failure on just about every level.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 18, 2014

Things certainly do go bump in the night--and the day and the morning and at just about every other possible moment that Pogue can toss in an amped-up sound effect to scare the pants off his hopefully susceptible viewers.

| Jun 28, 2014

Jared Harris would have fit in nicely alongside Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee back in Hammer's heyday.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2014