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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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Rated: 15

Runtime: 78 mins

Theatrical Release: 26-01-2007

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:

Jan 3, 2010

[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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3.5/5

Has a terrific slow-burning intensity as it torments its central characters (and the audience). Although it waits a bit too long to play its trump card.

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08/15/07
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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4/5

77 minutes of gloriously sustained tension.

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07/14/07
Jonathan Trout
BBC
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3/5

No story-structure, no succession of scary scenes and then ordinary-life scenes to clean the palate. Just one long unendurably tense and frightening sequence.

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07/14/07
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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4.5/5

This superb horror thriller breaks violently into your consciousness, robbing you of all sense of security.

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06/13/07
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film
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A perfectly-fine stripped-down little horror movie and if you're not a hardcore horror fan you'll probably find some of it surprising.

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01/29/07
Mark Kermode
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Effective in an unambitious way, it gives a new meaning to 'Boys in the Hood'.

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01/28/07
Philip French
Observer [UK]
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2/5

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.

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01/28/07
Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)
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3/5

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.

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01/26/07
Anthony Quinn
Independent
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3/5

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.

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01/26/07
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]
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4/5

Claustrophobic and exhausting, Them fumbles its payoff but reminds us why French chillers are a rare but thrilling treat.

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01/26/07
James Edwards
Total Film
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Suspenseful, eventually, but the first half's a snooze.

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01/26/07
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph
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3/5

Just one long unendurably tense and frightening sequence, beginning with the terrified couple waking in the middle of the night and having to creep downstairs, extended like a violin string about to snap.

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01/26/07
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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4/5

77 minutes of gloriously sustained tension.

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01/26/07
Jonathan Trout
BBC
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2/6

A 20-minute calling card short extended to a tolerance-stretching 74 minutes, this is an effectively directed but ultimately pointless wind-up exercise.

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01/26/07
Nigel Floyd
Time Out
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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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