Dr. A.R.G. Owen and the eight participants of the research group began conducting the Philip Experiment in 1972. In the movie, Professor Joseph Coupland (Jared Harris) conducts hi… See more

The real group operated under the auspices of the Toronto Society for Psychical Research and was made up of eight people, three men and five women. The group'… See more

In researching The Quiet Ones true story, we discovered that the purpose of the real experiment was to prove that the supernatural is a manifestation of what already exi… See more

No. Dr. A.R.G. Owen, a former professor of genetics at Cambridge, never had a son who died in an asylum from self-inflicted wounds. Dr. Owen did have a son, Robin E. Owen (bor… See more

Yes. However, the real séances were much tamer. The eight-person group met once a week. Unlike The Quiet Ones movie, there were no smoking dolls and demonic symbols (o… See more