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
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.
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... [More]
Reviews for Them
77 minutes of gloriously sustained tension.
07/14/07
Top CriticNo story-structure, no succession of scary scenes and then ordinary-life scenes to clean the palate. Just one long unendurably tense and frightening sequence.
07/14/07
Top CriticThis superb horror thriller breaks violently into your consciousness, robbing you of all sense of security.
06/13/07
Top CriticA perfectly-fine stripped-down little horror movie and if you're not a hardcore horror fan you'll probably find some of it surprising.
01/29/07
Top CriticEffective in an unambitious way, it gives a new meaning to 'Boys in the Hood'.
01/28/07
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
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
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
Claustrophobic and exhausting, Them fumbles its payoff but reminds us why French chillers are a rare but thrilling treat.
01/26/07
Suspenseful, eventually, but the first half's a snooze.
01/26/07
Top CriticJust 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.
01/26/07
Top Critic77 minutes of gloriously sustained tension.
01/26/07
Top CriticA 20-minute calling card short extended to a tolerance-stretching 74 minutes, this is an effectively directed but ultimately pointless wind-up exercise.
01/26/07
Top Critic...a sporadically affecting yet undeniably uneven exercise in horror.
11/01/09
A disturbing DV-shot horror thriller.
08/11/09
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04/23/09
Mostly an exercise in frustration.
02/09/09
A lean, mean, and extremely focused French horror film.
06/04/08
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
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