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Them
Dark Sky Films


5.4

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FILM:

The Eye

MPAA RATING: R for some violence/terror

Starring Olivia Bonamy, Micha�l Cohen, Adriana Mocca, Maria Roman, Camelia Maxim, and Alexandru Boghiu

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)

GENRE(S):	Horror \| Mystery \| Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	David Moreau Xavier Palud
DIRECTED BY:	David Moreau Xavier Palud
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: February 26, 2008 Theatrical: August 17, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	77 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	France
LANGUAGE(S):	French / Romanian

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Philadelphia Inquirer Tirdad Derakhshani

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.

Chicago Reader Joshua Katzman

Eschewing special effects, Moreau and Palud reinvigorate the classic haunted house premise by paring the plot down to its essentials.

Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves

One of the most intelligent and unnerving horror films in recent memory.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

There's no time wasted and no showy effects to detract from the situation -- just sheer tension.

New York Post V.A. Musetto

A welcome change from horror movies like "Hostel' and "Saw" and their mind-numbing gore and violence.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

If you want an hour or so of terror, put your faith in Them.

The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz

The movie is scarier if you know nothing about it going in. It has no larger agenda. It?s not an allegory, a satire or a commentary. It?s just a modestly relentless suspense picture that propels its characters through a series of dreamscapes.

Variety Lisa Nesselson

Romania-set scare-fest deploys the full cinematic vocabulary of creepy sounds and hostile intruders.

Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen

Them is surprisingly tight, efficient and economical, conjuring a super-creepy atmosphere and incredible tension seemingly out of nothing at all.

Village Voice Ernest Hardy

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.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

You'd better deliver the goods. And Them, despite some moody imagery out of the "Blair Witch" school, never does.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The ending underscores the old cliche about the banality of evil but getting there is meant to be the whole fun. For some people at least.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Them knows something the makers of the "Hostel" and "Saw" movies apparently don't: Subtlety and suggestion are every bit as terrifying as slashing and sawing.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Technique is all you have to admire. There's nothing underneath the formal exercise. The film's coyness about what's happening is cheap.

Premiere Eric Alt

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White

A gruelingly dull slog through basic horror-movie conventions, should be dumped in the Seine.

The average user rating for this movie is 5.4 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ken G. gave it a2:
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.

Jim G. gave it a4:
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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