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
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Them (2007)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:32
Rotten:20
Average Rating:6.1/10
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.
Runtime: 78 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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... [More]
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Reviews for Them
So skilfully does the film shield its hand that the final "reveal" actually comes as a disappointment - the enigma was truly much harder to bear.
01/26/07
This superb horror thriller breaks violently into your consciousness, robbing you of all sense of security.
06/13/07
The fright is crafted well enough, but the twist at the end calls for more originality than filmmakers David Moreau and Xavier Palud wield.
08/24/07
That it is based on a true story does not compensate for the absence of either suspense or horror.
08/23/07
The directors have thoroughly soaked up the best of its countless predecessors, elevating Ils to highly effective and atmospheric genre entertainment.
07/12/07
There are moments in Them that are as powerful as anything in the genre in the last few years.
08/17/07
77 grueling minutes
08/16/07
Plenty of jolts and some pleasingly spooky scenes, with the tension ratcheted up to fever pitch, but then it all falls to pieces with a badly fumbled ending.
01/26/07
It's refreshing to see the French finally producing a worthy entry in the horror genre.
09/11/07
...a sporadically affecting yet undeniably uneven exercise in horror.
11/01/09
A disturbing DV-shot horror thriller.
08/11/09
A well-crafted jack-in-the-box toy that is more frightening in its ratcheted apprehension of what is to come than in the ultimate outcome.
08/18/07
One of the least understood movie monsters is the pronoun.
08/05/07
The nature of the couple’s tormentors makes the action scarier than it would have been with, say, a supernatural monster, but it also represents a cheap and nasty move by Moreau and Palud.
01/28/07
Not a classic, but as a one-time theatrical experience it should scare the pee out of anyone.
08/12/07
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...
03/26/08
If you want an hour or so of terror, put your faith in Them.
08/17/07
Top CriticClaustrophobic and exhausting, Them fumbles its payoff but reminds us why French chillers are a rare but thrilling treat.
01/26/07
Those who don't need all that graphic content to be jolted and unnerved may find a few things to like here.
09/13/07
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