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- 2002
- PG-13
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 29 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 29 m
Summary After witnessing a horrible incident, a graduate student struggles to find the link between her childhood fear of the dark and the night terrors she now suffers.
Directed By: Robert Harmon
Written By: Brendan Hood
- 2002
- PG-13
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 29 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 29 m
They
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7.4
Summary After witnessing a horrible incident, a graduate student struggles to find the link between her childhood fear of the dark and the night terrors she now suffers.
Directed By: Robert Harmon
Written By: Brendan Hood
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
31
13% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
50% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
31
13% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
50% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
It starts pushing buttons immediately and never lets up. This proves to be both its strongest asset and, unfortunately, its biggest flaw.
Perfectly acceptable, perfectly bland, competently acted but by no means a scary horror movie, in which "they" are coming to get people.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 107 User Ratings
7.4
76% Positive
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
3% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
21% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 107 User Ratings
7.4
76% Positive
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
3% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
21% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
They has ample scenes that are well shot and the movie has a creepy atmosphere that fits every horror
thriller. Marc Blucus is in the movie from Buffy The Vampire Slayer and he does a fantastic job as always.
The leading actress from The Count of Monte Cristo also adds to the movie with her character.
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Sensation, not sense, is the point of this exercise, and what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread.
A dull, dumb and derivative horror film.
They never generates any real fear until its last minutes, by which time it is too late to redeem the dull events that preceded them.
The hilarious diminuendo of that title is such that the movie might as well have been called ''Wes Craven Presents: Not a Hell of a Lot.''
The film stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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This film is another mild horror film that never wants to be more than that and never strives for more. Its greatest merit comes from making an effort to deal with the public's childhood fears. It is meritorious, in that it takes advantage of an interesting idea to make a horror film, but it fails in the attempt to scare us.
The script is based on the existence of something that, under cover of darkness, torments children in their room at night. Years later, as an adult, Júlia Lund meets a childhood friend who kills himself in front of her, allegedly to get rid of the creatures that torment him. That is, the film has potential, but it is lost as it becomes more complex. The monsters are so obvious and poorly made that they never scare, and from the moment the audience understands the story, the film has little more to give: the ending becomes obvious and the film ends up becoming slow, tiring and uninteresting with the progress of the film.
The cast is average and does not do more than expected. The highlight naturally goes to the beautiful Laura Regan, the protagonist, who was able to capture the public's sympathy despite sometimes sounding exaggerated. Wes Craven is notoriously mentioned in the introduction but I don't see what he could have done to improve the film other than simply to allow to put his name there in exchange for a handful of dollars. Robert Harmon does an average job in the director's chair, looking satisfied with a film that never impresses. At a more technical level, the film is as warm as everything else: the scares are predictable and not frightening, the design of the monsters is good enough if we take into account that we never see them well, the special, visual and sound effects are decent.
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You have probably seen the plot summary a hundred times before, and if you haven't, then you have seen scenes from this film in other films a hundred times before. Julia (Laura Regan) is a master's degree student in psychology. A troubled childhood friend, Billy (Jon Abrahams), contacts her, meets her, rambles incoherently to her, and then shoots himself in front of her. The viewer has already seen Billy, as a young boy, grabbed by monsters in the night, so he probably had some problems even Julia could not help him with. At Billy's funeral, Julia meets Billy's other friends Sam (Ethan Embry) and Terry (Dagmara Dominczyk). The friends have had night terrors as children, and they now bear strange markings on their bodies that seem to say "hey, mysterious computer generated creatures, come and get me!" Julia goes to former childhood psychiatrist Dr. Booth (Jay Brazeau), who does the shrink thing. Julia's boyfriend Paul (Marc Blucas) doesn't really get it all, either. Come to think of it, neither did **** basic flaw with "They" is the lousy execution of the premise. Childhood monsters coming back for adult victims is a good idea, but the script was given the go-ahead without any explanation as to where the creatures come from, why they mark certain victims, etc. This is huge in a film that is otherwise not very compelling. The cast is fine, acting scared at just the right moment. The instrumental score is terrible, it sounds like incidental music for "The Music Man." Director Harmon's talents are wasted on the screenplay. He needs a script that will not fail his eye. The screenplay borrows from tons of other films like "Jacob's Ladder," "Phantasm," the remake of "The Blob," and "The Sixth Sense," to name a few, and thinks nothing of ripping off the pool scene from "Cat People." Sure, the DVD has the alternate ending, which is a ripoff of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," but that ending was better than the one that made the final cut. The special effect monsters are wisely kept out of view through most of the film, they look like giant bats. They do deliver a few scares, but in context with the mindless script, it is not enough. Eventually, you will figure out that most of the special effects here consist of some grip flicking lights on and off. "They" had a promising director, nice cast, and a low budget. The script is what never should have seen the light of day.
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THEY are part of one of the worst movies I have seen in years. I'm not even sure who the THEY are! Usually Wes Craven doesn't put his name on something unless it's decent. This isn't even close to decent. This is the slowest, most boring horror film I've ever seen! "Hey remember that that scared us 19 years ago, when we were kids, well all of a sudden it's back, so ummm call your childhood psychologist." Laura Regan is laughable, getting more upset by some crap on her finger than her friend blowing his head off in front of her, and it's just downhill from there. There is nothing scary about this film. I really have to question how like this even gets made.
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Awards
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Fantasporto
• 1 Nomination
