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6.9 out of 10

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  • Summary: Lucas and Clementine live in an isolated house in the suburbs of Bucharest. She is a French Professor, he is a novelist and together they live a peaceful existence. Then one night, all goes wrong. The rain rages against there house. The phone keeps ringing, the voices on the other end of the line are unintelligible. The couple are no longer alone...the nightmare begins...it is them. (Mars Distribution)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Tirdad Derakhshani
    88
    At a lean - and decidedly mean - 77 minutes, the suspense-horror hybrid Them by French writer-directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud is nothing short of revelatory.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    60
    The characters in Them are paper-thin: They're mere props to be manipulated by co-directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud, who want nothing more than to scare you sh--less in what, with its nonstop chase sequences and booby traps, often comes off as a live-action video game.
  3. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Eric Alt
    38
    For a while, it works, until it suddenly decides to abandon the "what you don't see is scarier than what you do see" for a ridiculous and ultimately insulting explanatory ending.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. skim123
    9
    Great Horror movie. As simple as can be. It simply depicts a series of scary events, and it depicts them well. The use of a more grainy film and simple lighting makes the atmosphere feel more true to life, rather than the "stylized" artistic lighting that most movies use these days. The dark scenes feel like you're in the dark....not like there's a spotlight off camera to illuminate the actors in a cheesy way. It's simple, it's scary, and it's very good.… Expand
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  2. JimG.
    4
    Not fantastic enough to raise your heart rate, not sincere enough to be a documentary. Far from being inspired (even by real events).
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  3. KenG.
    2
    While I appreciate the idea of horror movies that aren't just dopey slasher movies, or "torture-porn", this was a very shabby job. The whole thing is just a series of scenes of the 2 leads being chased by unknown evil forces. First they are being chased through the house, then through the woods, then finally through tunnels. It gets to feeling redundant and tired very quickly. It's not scary, nor suspenseful, and it doesn't seem like much imagination went into it. And at the end, when you do find out what was going on, it doesn't feel the least bit believable. You walk out of movie feeling the whole thing could easily have been handled a lot better then it was.… Expand
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