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Them (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 49 Fresh: 31  Rotten:18 Average Rating: 6.2/10
 
Consensus: Suspenseful and tense from start to finish, the French horror film Them proves that a lack of gore doesn't mean a dearth of scares.
 

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Runtime: 78 mins

Theatrical Release: 2007

Synopsis: Somewhere in Romania; Clementine is finishing her day of teaching the local kids French. On her way home she spots an abandoned vehicle beside the road. She continues on unaware of what happened to its occupants, a mother and her teenage daughter, the night before. Not that it matters, as... Somewhere in Romania; Clementine is finishing her day of teaching the local kids French. On her way home she spots an abandoned vehicle beside the road. She continues on unaware of what happened to its occupants, a mother and her teenage daughter, the night before. Not that it matters, as tonight, along with her writer beau Lucas, she'll find out first hand. They're awakened during the night by strange phone calls and the TV downstairs being turned on--but this is only beginning of their night of terror as the phone lines go dead, the power goes out and their car goes missing, as they're stalked and set upon by THEM! [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Olivia Bonamy, Michael Cohen

Director: Xavier Palud, David Moreau
Screenwriter: Xavier Palud, David Moreau
Producer: Richard Grandpierre
Composer: René-Marc Bini

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 25, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - French/Romanian
  • Subtitles - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Featurettes - 1. Composer Bernard Marc Bini
  • 2. THE MAKING OF THEM
  • 3. THE TORTURE OF CLEMENTINE
  • Trailers

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4/5

A lean, mean, and extremely focused French horror film.

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06/04/08
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films
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4/5

Definitely one of the best horror films I've seen in a while, and plays to the key of terror and our imagination provoking enough imagery without the director having to do much of anything...

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03/26/08
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Film Threat
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2/6

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01/18/08
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York
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1.5/4.0

You can always expect a little embellishment for any horror film or thriller that claims to be based on a true story or actual events. This one, however, doesn't sell it.

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01/10/08
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com
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First-time directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud have crafted a highly effective horror film that combines a plausible narrative with accomplished use of sound and image.

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01/03/08
Joshua Katzman
Chicago Reader
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The final 20 minutes contain some of the best, uncontrived twists of any post-Sixth Sense American suspense film, but there is a good reason for that, as the co-directors reveal with a shocking epilogue.

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10/23/07
Matt Kelemen
Las Vegas CityLife
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This freshman effort from the French team of David Moreau and Xavier Palud would rate an A in film school. But that doesn't mean it's worth seeing.

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10/12/07
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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2.5/4

The essentially nonexistent characterizations do little to help matters.

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09/22/07
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com
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4/5

Moreau and Palud play on the way our minds fill in the gaps of the unknown and the very primal fear of things going bump in the night.

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09/20/07
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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2.5/4

A nerve-wracking finale, a 30-minute chase through the house's catacombs, followed by a closing image that will chill you to the bone.

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09/14/07
Sean Means
Film.com
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2.5/4

Those who don't need all that graphic content to be jolted and unnerved may find a few things to like here.

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09/13/07
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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3/4

It's refreshing to see the French finally producing a worthy entry in the horror genre.

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09/11/07
David N. Butterworth
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3/4

Those who like their horror served up neat, no chaser, can safely belly up to Them. It is a pared-down French thriller that trades splatter and gore for tense efficiency.

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09/07/07
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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2.5/5

There is absolutely no fat on this brief, 74-minute film, but even as you get caught up in the suspense you come to realize that there isn't much meat on it, either.

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09/06/07
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly
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A well made, if extremely hollow, technical exercise... so wafer-thin, I'm a little wary of calling it a movie. It's more like a photographed premise.

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09/06/07
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly
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2/4

Them is Haneke on training wheels.

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08/31/07
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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2/4

The fright is crafted well enough, but the twist at the end calls for more originality than filmmakers David Moreau and Xavier Palud wield.

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08/24/07
Bill Stamets
Chicago Sun-Times
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3/4

Them is more suspenseful than gory; there's little blood, but the tension gradually builds to a nail-biting level — an impressive feat, considering the movie is essentially one long chase.

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08/24/07
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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3/5

The same old stuff served in an admittedly stylish manner.

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08/23/07
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com
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That it is based on a true story does not compensate for the absence of either suspense or horror.

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08/23/07
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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