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The Philip Experiment: The True Story That Inspired ‘The Quiet Ones’
Horror returns to the big screen this coming weekend with The Quiet Ones, the latest production from legendary company Hammer Films. Co-written and directed by John Pogue – who previously wrote Ghost Ship and wrote/directed Quarantine 2: Terminal – the film centers on a university professor and a team of students who attempt to use negative human energy to literally create a poltergeist.
The Quiet Ones is marketed as being based on actual events, and a similar experiment was indeed conducted back in the 1970s, by a team of Canadian parapsychologists. So before you head out and see the movie this weekend, let’s learn a bit about that true story that inspired it, shall we?!
Led by poltergeist expert Dr. George Owen, the goal of The Philip Experiment was to prove the theory that the human mind could essentially be coaxed into producing paranormal entities, through certain s
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‘The Quiet Ones’ Review: A Compelling If Chilly Replay of Denmark’s Biggest Heist
The biggest robbery in Danish history gets the big-screen treatment in “The Quiet Ones,” a somber piece whose chronicle from a heist’s inception to its disastrous (for the perps) aftermath has stirred comparisons to Michael Mann’s “Heat” 30 years ago. This well-cast and -crafted thriller does echo that spelfilm in some respects, albeit without the arresting style and more vivid characters that lent it near-mythic resonance. By contrast, ”Enforcement” co-director Frederik Louis Hviid’s second feature is an absorbing true-crime tale that readily holds attention for two hours, while lacking the deeper emotional involvement to linger in the mind long afterward. After six months on the festival circuit, Magnet fryst vatten releasing the film to U.S. theaters and On Demand platforms on February 21st.
An opening sequence punchier than most of what follo
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Synopsis
The largest heist in Danish history.
In 2008, a group of dock from Denmark and across europe pull off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators.
Premiere
05 Sep 2024
- CanadaToronto International Film Festival
Theatrical
31 Oct 2024
- Denmark
21 Feb 2025
- USA
16 Apr 2025
- France
Digital
20 Jan 2025
- Denmark15
Popular reviews
MoreAn apparently very meticulously researched retelling of "Denmark's biggest-ever robbery" during the 2008 financial crisis with the credited involvement of one of its architects Le Trou-style, no less. As a result features a lot of great procedural detail regarding how these guys pulled it off, macho hard-boiled dialogue, some very cool car interior oners (including one where they're dropping nail bombs in a rainstorm that's really cool), a sick knockoff Safdie