Inpired by true events? - The Quiet Ones (2014) Discussion

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[–] UsmanSyed 10 years ago

kinda like Outlast..!

-Do me a favor and buy yourself a brain

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[–] emakantasis 10 years ago

http://www.time-loops.net/Experiment_Philip.htm

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[–] n-sommer 10 years ago

Kool, thanks guys.

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[–] UsmanSyed 10 years ago

its a game....has a similar story.!

-Do me a favor and buy yourself a brain

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[–] somf 10 years ago

The actual true event that they are referring to that inspired this film is some thoughts truly went through the writers head that he truly put down on paper to ultimately develop a complete screenplay which inspired the making of this film.

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[–] somf 10 years ago

That being said, I hope and think this writer has a very interesting imagination and that it was well interpreted by all involved. In other words, this looks very good to me.

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[–] psdhart 10 years ago

more here: http://rhinoshorror.com/2014/02/04/the-quiet-ones-and-its-true-story/

There is a documentary on you tube of the original events (a hoax sadly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lGPT2J1cc

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[–] CanadianMaximusT24 10 years ago

more here: http://rhinoshorror.com/2014/02/04/the-quiet-ones-and-its-true-story/

Coool thanks I was looking for bit of background on this

"I need to train and hone my skills right?" End of quote. Then he died!

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[–] psdhart 10 years ago

Coool thanks I was looking for bit of background on this

you are welcome

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[–] mygotta-411-622647 10 years ago

Really?? I just read this book!! It was called Conjuring Up Philip. This movie looks like a teen horror flick. The results in the film hardly resemble anything in the book. Philip, as I read, was rather calm and talkative person. Now I am curious to see this film, but prepared to be let down.

A scene from the original seance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lGPT2J1cc

The book

http://www.amazon.com/Conjuring-Up-Philip-Adventure-Psychokinesis/dp/0671811037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397352540&sr=8-1&keywords=conjuring+up+philip

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[–] mickypop2001-1 10 years ago

That's because it's based on nothing....As usual

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[–] lovin_my_guitar 10 years ago

After seeing post after post sprinkled in over the years of the idea that "plants" exist on these boards, I've gotten into the habit of clicking on the user names of people who post things that interest me. n-sommer (the OP) is one such user that triggers all the flags, recently created profile and no other posts for anything but this movie. Thus, this user is dismissed as is all content in the post. I suggest everyone else adopt this strategy.

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[–] aldiboronti 10 years ago

The word 'true' used in the blurb for the movie has no connection at all with the dictionary definition or the way it's used in the everyday world. In filmspeak 'true' means 'we just made it up but maybe we'll sell more tickets if we say it really happened'. And as 90% of moviegoers are dumb enough to believe it they may well be right.

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[–] matrix25 10 years ago

Here's quite a bit of info on the true events, which in no way mirror the film, except for the basic idea of the mind being able to create a ghost. Check it out: http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/quiet-ones/

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[–] grindovermatter 10 years ago

The phrase "inspired by true events" is meaningless.

Every movie ever made, indeed every story ever told, was somehow inspired by true events.

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[–] mcornett 10 years ago

And that inspiration can take many forms. For instance, "Psycho" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" are both based on true events. In fact, both are based on the same killer, Ed Gein. But you wouldn't know it if you saw both movies, as they're very, very different.

Or "The Exorcist," which was based on rumors and news reports of a supposed possession in the DC suburbs, but the novel and movie are very, very, very heavily embroidered and fictionalized, to the point that any resemblance between the real case and the movie is purely coincidental. And yet people think they're watching some sort of documentary.

"Value your education. It's something nobody can ever take away from you." My mom.

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[–] sboehm1977 10 years ago

Actually the exorcist is something that really happened. Anyone from St.L will tell you. But was the movie changed a little from actual events? Yes. It was a boy not a girl. Among other changes. Hence the word "based".

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[–] mcornett 8 years ago

The idea that "The Exorcist" really happened in St. Louis is an urban legend. Ask the author of the book....

"Value your education. It's something nobody can ever take away from you." My mom.

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[–] Zebb67 8 years ago

No, the story behind The Exorcist was thoroughly debunked by Skeptical Inquirer, as these things usually are. The Amityville Horror is based on a couple who bought a house they couldn't afford and concocted with a writer (over several bottles of wine) a way to make some easy cash by basically turning The Exorcist into a haunted house story.

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[–] activista 7 years ago

About the Amityville Horror---actually the family could have afforded to stay in the home, but chose to get out and stay in hotels anyway. Keep in mind, a whole family--who were the previous occupants, were murdered in that same home. If someone can't afford a home, they take out a reverse mortgage, or risk going into foreclosure. They don't just up and run off leaving the house, claiming its haunted. That's not even what most homeowners would do, btw. So there had to have been something more to the situation than that.

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[–] venusboys3 10 years ago

I noticed that the photographs at the end of the movie, meant to suggest they are the real life researchers the movie is based on, look nothing like the participants in the Phillip documentary. So there are layers of hoaxes going on. Which is fine by me because I love that sort of obfuscation and creation of myth.

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[–] knightofdreamz 10 years ago

Its loosely based on three college students who attended class one day. Nothing out of the ordinary happened before during or after class.

".... Now i have become death, the destroyer of worlds" - Robert Oppenheimer

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[–] sized-2 9 years ago

The Apparation (2012) is also based on the Philip experiment.

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