Soft & Quiet(2022)
2022 · Beth de Araújo · 91 min
Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.
Horror · Thriller
6.4229 votes
TMDB score
5/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
5/5
Stays with you
How scary is Soft & Quiet?
The movie unfolds in what feels like one continuous take, starting slow with everyday small talk before quietly tightening into something much darker as the night goes on. There are no jump scares here; the dread builds from watching ordinary-seeming people reveal how ugly they really are, and the tension keeps rising without ever letting you look away. It gets more physically brutal as it goes, and by the end it sits somewhere between a thriller and a horror movie about real human cruelty. This is a heavy, upsetting watch meant to unsettle you, not a fun scare, so it's better suited to viewers who want to be disturbed and made uncomfortable rather than entertained.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Soft & Quiet rates psychological 5/5, visceral 4/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 5/5, and overall intensity 5/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 5 of 5
- Intensity: 5 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 8 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 97 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 93 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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Starts quiet and uncomfortable, then steadily tightens into a long, escalating stretch of dread that barely lets go until the very end.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4.
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