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01/18/08
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
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.
01/10/08
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.
01/03/08
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.
10/23/07
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.
10/12/07
The essentially nonexistent characterizations do little to help matters.
09/22/07
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.
09/20/07
Top CriticA nerve-wracking finale, a 30-minute chase through the house's catacombs, followed by a closing image that will chill you to the bone.
09/14/07
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
It's refreshing to see the French finally producing a worthy entry in the horror genre.
09/11/07
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.
09/07/07
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.
09/06/07
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.
09/06/07
Them is Haneke on training wheels.
08/31/07
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
Top CriticThem 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.
08/24/07
The same old stuff served in an admittedly stylish manner.
08/23/07
That it is based on a true story does not compensate for the absence of either suspense or horror.
08/23/07
Taut and remorseless, Them, which is allegedly based on actual events, is the perfect antidote to the stomach-churning gore served up by so many in the current crop of horror films.
08/23/07
It should scare up a bit of boxoffice as it does hearken back to the day when horror meant the imagination gone wild rather than severed body parts. Otherwise, the film is all too pointless.
08/22/07
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