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  Review by Max ★★★★★ 2

  two bros chilling in the basement five feet apart cause theyre not gay

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  Review by Sheena ★★★★★ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  How often do you find a film where schizophrenia is displayed in the background of a horror film as a twitching person in a straight jacket meant to be ogled? They draw on the walls, throw feces, and make for spooky background stories of abandoned houses in every other film these days. We are always on the outside, as spectators. There is no horror in that display, just misunderstanding.

  They Look Like People unsettled me far more than I expected it to. Perhaps it is because I was anticipating a typical thriller of some kind, but it was not. You are placed within the confines of a person who is mentally unstable and on the verge of a mental breakdown.…

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  Review by Keith Garrett ★★★★½ 6

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  It's the middle of the night and Wyatt lies in bed awake, facing his girlfriend. He stares blankly at her. All we see is her outline lit by the moon, her face is cloaked in complete darkness. The shot, which already exudes an indefinable menace, is held just barely too long. What was merely a strange shot quickly becomes uncomfortable, and then genuinely unnerving. All in the span of one minute. The very first minute of the movie.

  It's an incredibly simple but incredibly effective moment of tense unease and this film is littered with them. Wyatt has an undefined(?) mental illness, but it resembles schizophrenia. He receives phone calls in the middle of the night (or does he?) from…

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  Review by 1313: Tony the Terror ★★★★½ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  A horror movie about mental illness that’s not offensive?! Yes!

  The first time I saw this it really creeped me out. It’s about a guy who thinks that people are being taken over by some unseen force...kinda like a virus I guess...and maybe he’s right and maybe he’s mentally ill and the scares are so subtle and atmosphere based that I just ate it all up then and it still holds up today. Even better than the scares is the fact that the guy has an awesome friend who’s basically like “yeah you’re probably crazy but on the off chance you aren’t we’re gonna play this like it’s all legit” and the friendship is just the kind of sweet and pure…

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  Review by 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚 ★★★★

  "I don't believe what you believe but I know you believe it."

  I thought it was just another horror movie but I was mistaken. Excellent film about mental illness, mental help, and having the support needed. Very well written, it has its moments with that eerie atmosphere along with a few good thrills distinctive from the genre and does a great job in keep you wondering if it's real or not until the end but it is so much more than that. And the very last scene was just perfect.

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  Review by HorrorSage ★★★★ 13

  Good evening and welcome fellow Children of Chaos.

  A24's version of Frailty. But Frailty is awesome, so that is not an insult.

  Basically this dude, who may or may not be schizophrenic gets phone calls telling him about a secret monster invasion he is prepare for, and help his friends.

  And what we have is a lot of the collection of Wyatt and his pal he's crashing with Christian trying to navigate a soft and quiet world. And that is what I love about a good Loner Thrillers. How the world is quiet and empty to reflect our protag's minds and lives.

  I don't have too much to say except how much I feel for poor Christian and Wyatt in this world.

  My biggest issue is the ending, it felt like I needed like 5 more minutes. Just to wrap up Wyatt and Christian's relationship with each other. Their rad-bromance.

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  Review by C.J. 1

  I'll need some time to think this one through a bit, but it's fantastic. Deeply unsettling, and it's so resonant in the way it explores loneliness, isolation and dealing with "growing up" amidst a really disturbing combination of Take Shelter and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

  This should be getting praised to high heaven in the same way The Babadook and It Follows were over the last 2 years. They Look Like People is way, way more subtle, emotional and impressive (based off the end credits it looked like they never had more than a 2 or 3 person crew) than both of those films in my eyes.

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  Review by Marianna Neal ★★★½ 3

  To be honest, I think I liked the idea of this film more than the film itself. It has some genuinely unsettling moments, and it definitely kept me guessing until the very end, but something was missing here. It would have made a great short film, or it could have benefited from being a bit more eventful. Worth checking out though, if you are into tense psychological thrillers with an indie flair.

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  Review by Dawson Joyce ★★★★½

  Terrifically acted, deeply unsettling, and even quite funny at times, They Look Like People is an assured and well-crafted horror gem that's rich with atmosphere, dread, and subtlety.

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  Review by Héctor ★★★★½

  SPOOKTOBER 2022
  Category: Psychological horror

  Thought is was great. Loved the relationship between the main two guys. Their friendship felt real and genuine. The acting was believable and made me care about the characters. Great tension building. I loved how it's pretty obvious what is really going on but is still able to keep you on edge. The last scene was really well done and definitely worked for me. Great review and you have a new fan.

  29/31

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  Review by karamashi ★ 2

  Something we've all seen time and time again. A millennial bro-Horror indie film that kicks around an idea of mental illness as apocalyptic paranoia. It's poorly acted, awkwardly shot, and gives us two misery eating bros that beg us to feel sympathy for. It tries to be all "ambiguous", instead it tested my patience and interest levels, as do all these indie darling horror films. A certified Yawn-o-Rama.

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  Review by bree1981 ★★★★ 1

  Celluloid Screams 2015 Film # 3

  This was by far the biggest surprise of the weekend, had skipped over the film at Frightfest and I hadn't heard anything about it either good or bad so I went in with pretty low expectations but it probably ended up being my favourite film of the weekend. The debut feature from writer/director Perry Blackshear is an assured film, a New York set character piece that straddles many genres, part paranoid thriller, part mental breakdown drama with plenty of humour, some rom-com staples and obviously a large dose of horror thrown into the mix.
  MacLeod Andrews stars as Wyatt, a mental unstable man who visits his old college friend Christian (Evan Dumouchel) out of…