It's certainly entertaining enough and made with great style, but the whole thing feels slightly undercooked.
They (2002)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:4
Rotten:7
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: They fails to sustain the level of creepiness necessary to rise above other movies in the horror genre.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for terror/violence, sexual content and language
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Nov 27, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $12,575,046
Synopsis: Robert Harmon's psychological thriller tells the tale of a graduate student whose childhood comes back to haunt her. Julia Lund (Laura Regan) is a seemingly well adjusted young woman who is getting... Robert Harmon's psychological thriller tells the tale of a graduate student whose childhood comes back to haunt her. Julia Lund (Laura Regan) is a seemingly well adjusted young woman who is getting a Master's degree in psychology. But one night she receives a call from her childhood friend, Billy (Jon Abrahams), who appears to have lost his grip on reality. Billy is convinced that the nighttime monsters that plagued both him and Julia as youngsters have returned to torment him. Before she can get him to calm down, Billy has turned a gun on himself and pulled the trigger. At the funeral service, Julia meets college friends of Billy's (Ethan Embry and Dagmara Dominczyk), who confess that they too had night terrors as children. Already under enough stress with her impending thesis defense, Julia must now contend with the supernatural evil that has begun to wreak havoc on her life. Harmon, who directed the classic 1986 thriller THE HITCHER, creates a dark and gloomy atmosphere, leaving it to the viewer to decide if this is really happening, or if it's all just inside Julia's stressed-out, fragile mind. [More]
Starring: Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Dagmara Dominczyk, Ethan Embry
Starring: Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Dagmara Dominczyk, Ethan Embry, Jon Abrahams
Director: Robert Harmon
Director: Robert Harmon
Screenwriter: Brendan Hood
Producer: Tom Engelman
Composer: Elia Cmiral
Studio: Dimension Films
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Jun 10, 2003
Reviews for They
The attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show.
They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering.
Represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller/horror genre.
A perfectly acceptable, perfectly bland, competently acted but by no means scary horror movie.
They has a low-budget, generic feel -- but also enough sense to know that unseen menace is a lot creepier than explicit gore.
What it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread.
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