Inspired by real events, The Quiet Ones nests its tale of terror in 1974 England, where a respected professor at Oxford University risks his reputation (and his life) to work out a disturbing experiment. Jared Harris stars as Professor Joseph Coupland, who believes that a long-held belief in possession and poltergeists is a basic misunderstanding of how the human mind operates. Coupland suspects that a mentally ill mind can essentially manifest the paranormal activity associated with hauntings. He aims to prove it by curing Jane Harper (Olivia Cooke), a young woman who has been plagued by such phenomena for as long as she can remember.
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