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A young couple lead a happy, quiet life in the countryside. But little do they know they're being surrounded. When night falls, the couple will come face to face with THEM. Who are they? What do they want? The answers will take them to the very limits of fear itself."

Olivia Bonamy Michaël Cohen Adriana Mocca Maria Roman Camelia Maxim

foreign horror thriller

77 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Cliff

    Review by Cliff ★★½

    A home invasion thriller which would make a decent entry-level horror flick for the easily scared. For the hardened genre fan, however, Ils has one big flaw. Since the late 1980s, the consensus has been that villains are scarier when they're kept in the shadows. Ils proves that you can go too far the other way, because its villains are kept so well hidden that that we end up wondering exactly what it is that our heroes - and therefore we - are supposed to be so terrified of. All we ever see of the killers is their feet and the light from their torches... although at least we do know that they're capable of killing, thanks to an effective…

  • Kristal Cooper

    Review by Kristal Cooper ★★★

    A very tense thriller that uses the unseen predator angle for a bit too long for it to be 100% effective. Also, the reveal of "Them" lessens the impact of everything that precedes it. The use of sound is incredible though and the location is brilliant.

  • Ash Beks

    Review by Ash Beks ★★★

    Them really isn't treading in uncharted waters. This home invasion horror steals ideas from other, better films, notably Funny Games.

    But somehow, despite all of the cliched scares (miscellaneous/strange noise phone call, running tap, white noise TV, hanging plastic in the attic (fuck, seriously!?), knock on the door no-one there) this film somehow managed to get under my skin; I blame the score, cinematography and eerie woodland scenes.

  • Dirk Massey

    Review by Dirk Massey ★★★½

    Very Similar to 'The Strangers'

    Only runs at 77 mins so a very short but nevertheless gripping and attention grabbing film

    Worth just over an hour of anyone's time ( the alternative could be to watch an hour of terrestrial TV - God forbid )

  • Greg Jones

    Review by Greg Jones ★★★★

    I love the French. Seriously. How many awesome horror films have come out of that country lately? The list includes Martyrs, High Tension, Inside, and Frontier(s); now I can add Them to the list. Awesome.

    - For the longest time I thought that The Strangers was a remake of Them, but after doing some research I found out the films aren't directly related. The two are almost completely different outside of the couple-in-a-deserted-area-being-attacked-by-some-incredibly-coordinated-and-quick-moving-people scenario.

    - Plus Dennis Reynolds isn't in Them.

    - I hated the stupid epilogue that tells you what happened after the movie ends. Only under certain circumstances do I want to know what happened after the final scene - usually in true stories and biographies. Horror movies?…

  • buster

    Review by buster ★★★

    Home Invasion Horror

    A foreign film about a couple that has a rather unpleasant evening in their home. I don't really like how this movie moves along, the opening scene doesn't even need to be there, to me if you cut it out it wouldn't make a difference. It is a short movie at under 80 min including credits so I guess the opening scene is filler. The set up isn't bad but it's not that good either and I felt disconnected because the invaders you almost never see, so because of that I wasn't scared at all. There were some moments that had a creepy feel to it but they are short lived. Can't really say much as I don't want to give any of it away, but I do got to say I did like how they ended it. So over all not bad but just watch The Strangers it's much better.

  • Chris Ward

    Review by Chris Ward ★★★★

    Tense hoodie horror that blows away The Strangers, which appears to be a loose remake of this French thriller.

  • Forrest Ellsworth

    Review by Forrest Ellsworth ★½ 2

    Good horror movies break down the wall between screen and viewer, causing the audience to feel vulnerable and unable to escape whatever is happening in front of them. "Them" somehow built that wall thicker.

  • Michael

    Review by Michael ★★★½

    Wie einleitend geschrieben ist “Them” kein Horrorfilm, der mit seinen Effekten versucht die Aufmerksamkeit des geneigten Publikums zu ergattern. Fast könnte man sogar meinen, dass der Film mehr Thriller als Horrorfilm ist, doch fehlt es ihm hierfür etwas an Tiefe. So ist “Them” ein etwas anderer Horrorfilm, der seinen Horror vor allem aus seiner Tonspur schöpft. Gerade wenn man sich den Film über eine Surroundanlage anhört erzeugt der Film eine Atmosphäre, die zartbesaitete in den Wahnsinn treiben.

    Doch nicht nur die Tonspur von “Them” sorgt für Gänsehaut. Auch die schauspielerischen Leistungen der beiden Hauptdarsteller Olivia Bonamy (Die Gefangene, Read My Lips) und Michael Cohen (Heiße Flucht nach Vegas, Little Jerusalem) sorgen für ein kribbeln auf der Haut. Und das nicht…