Them
Slowhand Cinema Releasing | Release Date: August 17, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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88
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad Derakhshani
At a lean - and decidedly mean - 77 minutes, the suspense-horror hybrid Them by French writer-directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud is nothing short of revelatory. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJoshua Katzman
Eschewing special effects, Moreau and Palud reinvigorate the classic haunted house premise by paring the plot down to its essentials. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
There's no time wasted and no showy effects to detract from the situation -- just sheer tension. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A welcome change from horror movies like "Hostel' and "Saw" and their mind-numbing gore and violence. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
If you want an hour or so of terror, put your faith in Them. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneJessica Reaves
One of the most intelligent and unnerving horror films in recent memory. Read full review
70
VarietyLisa Nesselson
Romania-set scare-fest deploys the full cinematic vocabulary of creepy sounds and hostile intruders. Read full review
70
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
The movie is scarier if you know nothing about it going in. It has no larger agenda. It’s not an allegory, a satire or a commentary. It’s just a modestly relentless suspense picture that propels its characters through a series of dreamscapes. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen
Them is surprisingly tight, efficient and economical, conjuring a super-creepy atmosphere and incredible tension seemingly out of nothing at all. Read full review
60
Village VoiceErnest Hardy
The characters in Them are paper-thin: They're mere props to be manipulated by co-directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud, who want nothing more than to scare you sh--less in what, with its nonstop chase sequences and booby traps, often comes off as a live-action video game. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
You'd better deliver the goods. And Them, despite some moody imagery out of the "Blair Witch" school, never does. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The ending underscores the old cliche about the banality of evil but getting there is meant to be the whole fun. For some people at least. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Technique is all you have to admire. There's nothing underneath the formal exercise. The film's coyness about what's happening is cheap. Read full review
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Them knows something the makers of the "Hostel" and "Saw" movies apparently don't: Subtlety and suggestion are every bit as terrifying as slashing and sawing. Read full review
38
PremiereEric Alt
For a while, it works, until it suddenly decides to abandon the "what you don't see is scarier than what you do see" for a ridiculous and ultimately insulting explanatory ending. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
A gruelingly dull slog through basic horror-movie conventions, should be dumped in the Seine. Read full review
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