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Wes Craven Presents: They
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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
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Based on 11 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Brendan Hood
Directed by: Robert Harmon
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 27, 2002
DVD: June 10, 2003
Running Time: 105 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for terror/violence, sexual content and language
Starring Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Ethan Embry, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jon Abrahams, Jessica Amlee, and Jonathan Cherry
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.
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What The Critics Said
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 Steven Rea
They has a low-budget, generic feel -- but also enough sense to know that unseen menace is a lot creepier than explicit gore.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It starts pushing buttons immediately and never lets up. This proves to be both its strongest asset and, unfortunately, its biggest flaw.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Rich Cline
While it does deliver some good jolts, it never quite cranks up the terror.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Though the story eventually runs out of steam and it's never clear why the night-crawlers torment certain children and then come back to get them, fledgling screenwriter Brendan William Hood and director Robert Harmon -- whip up some effective suspense sequences.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Perfectly acceptable, perfectly bland, competently acted but by no means a scary horror movie, in which "they" are coming to get people.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
As far as pronoun horrors go, They can't hold a candle to Them or It, but as an anti-tourism ad for Seattle, it's right up there with The Ring in terms of overcast, glistening panache.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The grad student and her boyfriend (Marc Blucas) are blandly written and the story never develops any psychological depth; the paranormal explanation for what's going on is equally slight.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering from director Robert Harmon, whose debut film "The Hitcher" set a high bar for screen terror in the 1980s. Pic looks like a holiday gobbler.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Craven's name doesn't appear anywhere in the credits of the film otherwise known as They. That's fitting, too, since even the worst Craven-directed movies have a lot more going for them than this painfully familiar bit of oogum-boogum.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
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.''
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
At some point, I just tired of looking at all the nicely composed shots unworthy of the stock they're printed on. Lives are at stake here, and I don't mean Julia's and her annoying pals'. I mean the lives of you and me, the only pronouns that really matter here.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
The film stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.4 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sam S. gave it a10:
excellent horror filmaking classic working thrills and eveyrthing you can ask for in what is wes craven's newest classic.
Jan L. gave it a 1:
This movie is problably the worst movie I have ever seen. The only thing that the movie has going for it is that it stars Ethan Embry. The acting is pathetic, the movie does even resemble anything that could scare someone, and the plot is horrible. I could have tolerated the fact that the movie was not scary, if it had a good plot. However, there was no rhyme or reason to this movie. I can not say this vehemently enough: "IT STINKS!"
Nan gave it a 2:
Bad, cheap, and a waste of my money!
Michelle gave it a 0:
At no point in the movie you could be in fear.
Love scary movies gave it a 2:
This was one of the worst movies I have seen. It wasn't scary or interesting. Bad acting and close to a low budget film. Waste of money.
Jugster Jam gave it a 9:
Why the bad reviews. Acting- some of the unkown stars give a great performance. The special effects work well with the plot, and are only gracefully to keep up with the suspense until the end. There are no slasher jokes or characters. The national gaurd is not called for action in this movie. The movie is like a strong small play with big budget film resources that help make this short story more like that book you read during a summer in your teenage years. The DVD contains no behind the scene or any features.
Chris M. gave it a 9:
"They". Let me start off that this the first and perhaps only time i will post for a person..producer..star..in which ever in light, a person make take a "fan mail" in. In essence i have never posted on a forum, commented to the creator, or written in any form, a comment ever so if you read this realise i am trying to make this as original as possible ... anyhoos back to the topic...the movie "They" this particular movie was disregarded by pampered, short sighted critics that in veiw i think disregarded the honest true base, that the movie portrayed simply because "these critics" where comparing your movie to the "typical scare flick" standards and honestly on those levels they are right...but artistically and truthfully on the primal sence of the mind, you hit the nail on the head and drove it straight home, at least for me might i add... i am a fear junkie, and have watch all the scary movies i can(not i might add none of them ever work)...my dreams make most peoples "horror flicks" seem friendly and dosile..except in this case...the movie "They" was like taking one of my dreams and putting it on film, that movie did exactly as it was meant to do to those of us who had nightmares of a simular fashion (if there are any) i attempted to read on the sight to see if any other posts where made to support this movie but found none... if i missed it sorry... but alas i shall sum it up...the movie hit so close to home it brought back the same childhood nightmares...or night terrors as they are called in this movie as a movie i can tell this was thought through, and was put together 100% in the best possible light you could make this movie...if you had done anything to change it, to make it liked by the critics...you would have ruined it..although my veiw my be unhelpful in sales ( not a critic ) I wanted you to know this is the ONLY movie to ever get me to JUMP and scare me the way a movie is meant to scare a person...for the movie " the ring") stunk i laughed the whole time... completly predictable all the way up untill the end..and even then i still expected a slight change.....so not an easy person to scare...good show..as far as the critics...for the artistic level in which they are PAID or not..they critised to poorly I GIVE IT a 5/5 for its scare, genius and artistic level..actors, all of you grade A preformance...well done!!
