They
2002 Directed by Robert Harmon
Synopsis
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..
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All too often modern horror films consist of inferior imitations of Wes Craven's self-reflexive genre movie SCREAM. Supposedly postmodern teen-slashers I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, URBAN LEGEND and other such tripe are devoid of quality acting, suffer from weak storylines and are simply not scary. Thankfully, THEY takes a detour from this depressing trend to deliver a slick and disturbing chiller (this is ironic as the film was laden with the prefix 'Wes Craven presents...').
Under-rated actress Laura Regan (MY LITTLE EYE) plays Juliet Lund – an opinionated and prosperous twenty-something studying for a Master's Degree in Psychology. However, Juliet's focused and ordered life begins to unravel after she witnesses the suicide of life-long friend Billy.
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A skipping cd of the band Thursday? Discmans and references to rolling blackouts in 2002? The only scary part of this movie is that it reminds me that I'm in my late twenties.
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Movie kind of reminded me of Mimic. Same atmosphere and I believe the creatures were bug like. You never really see them, and when you do the CGI is pretty bad. THEY work best when crawling around the very dark walls. But you never get a good look at them.
The main problem is nothing really happens. Only a handful of death scenes, and since it's rated PG-13, there is no real gore. And forget nudity. You get some body double side boob and that's all.
The cast is okay. None of them are really given anything to do and while Regan is all kinds of cute, she doesn't have great reaction chops. I noticed not only when someone blows their head off, but when she's in a car accident as well, that she shows no visual emotion at all.
Seemed like a good idea that was just not made into the film it could have been.
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The first fifteen minutes of 'They' are moody and tense tinged with a genuine sense of horror. It's unfortunate that everything after is pedestrian, if not disappointing.
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Disclaimer: I'm going to use the title of the film as often as possible during the course of this review to see how much it sounds like a hillbilly movie review, enjoy.
Let's begin, They sucks.
That could pretty much sum it up, but I will make an effort to discuss They some.
They follows Julia (Laura Regan), a young woman on the verge of starting a career in psychology when a surprise phone call from an unstable childhood friend sends her reeling down a dark path full of danger, darkness, and strangely picky shadow monsters..
I have a hard time trying to pinpoint the worst thing about They, the top two candidates are the awful acting and equally awful…
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A skipping cd of the band Thursday? Discmans and references to rolling blackouts in 2002? The only scary part of this movie is that it reminds me that I'm in my late twenties.
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Movie kind of reminded me of Mimic. Same atmosphere and I believe the creatures were bug like. You never really see them, and when you do the CGI is pretty bad. THEY work best when crawling around the very dark walls. But you never get a good look at them.
The main problem is nothing really happens. Only a handful of death scenes, and since it's rated PG-13, there is no real gore. And forget nudity. You get some body double side boob and that's all.
The cast is okay. None of them are really given anything to do and while Regan is all kinds of cute, she doesn't have great reaction chops. I noticed not only when someone blows their head off, but when she's in a car accident as well, that she shows no visual emotion at all.
Seemed like a good idea that was just not made into the film it could have been.
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All too often modern horror films consist of inferior imitations of Wes Craven's self-reflexive genre movie SCREAM. Supposedly postmodern teen-slashers I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, URBAN LEGEND and other such tripe are devoid of quality acting, suffer from weak storylines and are simply not scary. Thankfully, THEY takes a detour from this depressing trend to deliver a slick and disturbing chiller (this is ironic as the film was laden with the prefix 'Wes Craven presents...').
Under-rated actress Laura Regan (MY LITTLE EYE) plays Juliet Lund – an opinionated and prosperous twenty-something studying for a Master's Degree in Psychology. However, Juliet's focused and ordered life begins to unravel after she witnesses the suicide of life-long friend Billy.
Haunted by…
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I'm glad I saw this when it was pretty new, because right now it's not going to get a lot of new fans, being the one odd-man-out packed into the back end of a disc full of Wes Craven's silly Dracula movies.
It suffers early on from some instant signifiers that it's from its era - the godawful songs (one guy even has a Limp Bizkit poster), the on-the-nose characterizations of its blandly attractive young cast (there's even one scene where the two leads sit around and describe each others' personalities).
But overall I find it pretty strong, especially for a PG-13 horror movie from 2002, and it manages to ratchet up stakes and intensity right up to the end…
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Just watched THEY, directed by Robert Harmon. This is a horror movie about a girl who is getting stalked by some mosters in the dark. The story has something to do with sleepwalking nightmares (night terrors), incubi, and some weird impants, but overall, the story is a mess, and the movie isn't scary. Not only that, but it is populated entirely by bad actors. Worst of all, it steals the pool-scene from CAT PEOPLE. The plot definitely has the feel of being cobbled together from a dozen different writers who are just trying to please their studio-bosses. Wes Craven put his name on this movie ("Presented by Wes Craven"...whatever that means) but that was a bad career move.
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A strange, creepy horror movie that for the most part works.