The Quiet Ones(2014)
2014 · John Pogue · 98 min
A professor and his students perform a dangerous experiment that causes a young woman to lose her sanity.
Horror
5.1727 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How scary is The Quiet Ones?
There's a clammy, clinical unease to this one, like watching a science experiment slowly go wrong in a room you can't leave. Long stretches of tense, quiet build-up are used to set up the scares, with the camera and recording equipment themselves becoming part of the dread. It plays with the question of whether what's happening is madness or something else entirely, and leans more on unsettling suggestion than blood or gore. Good for people who like slow-moving, moody horror with a handful of well-placed jolts rather than constant action.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Quiet Ones rates psychological 4/5, visceral 2/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 55 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 40 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 45 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow-building slow burn that stays tense in a low-key way before ramping up steadily into a much harder, more frantic final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5.
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