The Quite Ones (2014)

From the reconstituted Hammer Studios comes The Quite Ones, which by the way its never very clear from the movie why they went with this title. The film is based/ inspired/ very loosely based on an actual 1972 parapsychology experiment conducted in Canada, though the film is set in England. It's a mildly effective and certainly moody picture with one or two genuine moments to its credit, and no stars to speak of save Jared Harris, though Olivia Cooke has potential. The movie has a set up that would have worked perfect for a found picture movie, four people in an isolated mansion conducting parapsychology research on a young, possibly possessed women, and while the film has sequences presented as footage filmed by the experiments official chronicler and most sympathetic character Sam Claflin, most of the film is done in a more conventional manner, and I'm actually glade they went with this choice. Limited by its genera nature its still pretty good for what it is, but apparently not all that popular because I was the only one in the theater. ***