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Summary: Ouch.......
Review: This movie is a real stinker. The acting is mostly decent, except for the leading female....I mean she really needs to take an acting course on emotion 101. It has so many plot holes that I'm not even going to mention them. All of the horror movie cliche's are too much. If they stopped tormenting them until the kids grew up then why was the suicidal guy so wrapped up in dreams from when he was five. You know what would really shock me?
Answer: If they made a horror movie where someone looked into the sink and nothing squirted out. Where the flashlight doesn't cut off when you need it most. Where when your afraid to go to sleep they don't try and drug you. (Nightmare on Elm Street....hey that was Craven, lol) Where the subway car doesn't stop....or elevator for that matter. Out of curiosity...am I the only one who couldn't tell what the relationship with dreams was. Seems to me that they only need to get you when the lights went out.(Pitch Black,Darkness Falls,Shadowbuilders......lots more). If that was the case then why did the people fruit out and attack people they knew? The alternate ending made more sense....but for some reason [stunk] even worse than the one shown. Actually I don'care.....save your money on this one people. You might need a root canal, it would be more fun too.
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Summary: A sudden drop off the cliff....and CGI again ? Give it up.
Review: A very underfrightening movie, with an uninteresting cast, except for Ethan Embry. Always cool. The premise of the film is simple, okay, but what are creatures doing coming back 19 years later for their victims? Why not right away? Go get another victim if they were not edible at first. And CGI for the monsters again? Yawn. OOOOH, fast moving computer monsters. Ah, help. No explanation as to why 'they" come to eat you, or what their purpose is, okay, maybe all they do is eat. Like Jaws. Why they didn't explain that? Yawn. I'll sleep easy, knowing that Hollywood is going down, and i'll not waste anymore money on this [garbage]. I'd always rather watch a horror that has scared me already, but has a good script.
" T H E Y " ........are not scary.
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Summary: WES CRAVEN PRESENTS A MOVIE NOT WRITTEN OR DIRECTED BY HIM.
Review: Well, as you know Wes Craven did not write or direct this movie and it shows. Unfortunately for him as producer he probably did put up a lot of money for this movie to be made. The acting is bad and amatuerish, the lead actress' scream in the bathroom scene with her boyfriend is so bad it almost seems as though it was part of a parody about horror movies. The story is flat and unimaginative and there is absolutely no character development. Each scene exists only to serve as a vehicle for things to make
"scary noises" and doors to "mysteriously" open. Telephones ring loudly after moments of silence to make you jump or to allow for the obligatory "creepy" phone call. This is yet another less than mediocre horror movie starring inadequate actors in their twenty somethings and a script that could have been written by a freshman in junior high. Unconvincing, unorigonal, unscary...
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Summary: SCARY!
Review: Booming thunder and flashes of lightning frightened me at night when I was a youngster, especially when I tried to sleep during a pounding rainstorm. Because They, a harrowing horror flick directed by Robert Harmon, opens with a scene showing a little boy in a similar situation, I felt a twinge of terror coming back from the past - and that was before anything scary happened on screen. When things actually started going bump in the night, I spent the rest of the movie in a state of extreme fear. Fear of the dark, fear of being stuck in an elevator, fear of a car stalling on a lonely road, fear of attack while alone in a darkened swimming pool area, fear of falling apart during defense of a Masters thesis. Yes, They pushed all my buttons - almost as if filmmakers invaded my brain to plagiarize all my worst phobias. Fortunately, I can't find a round cut (that won't heal) anywhere on my body -- which means "They" probably didn't brand me with marks like those on the characters in They. Poor Julia (Laura Regan from Someone Like You), a psychology grad student, witnesses a traumatic event after her childhood friend Billy (Jon Abrams of Texas Rangers) shows her his mark. Both Julia and Billy suffered "night terrors" when they were children. Later, two other friends, played by Dagmara Dominczyk (The Count of Monte Cristo) and Ethan Embry (Sweet Home Alabama) discover they are afflicted with similar marks. It seems they are "night terrors" survivors, too, and their circular wounds bode tragic results. Could Julia be next? Not if her policeman boyfriend (Marc Blucas from Sunshine State) is right. He thinks it's all in her head. Using this simple story by Brendon Hood, who wrote TV's "The Darklings," director Harmon (The Hitcher) presents a horror film that requires us to use our imagination about the creatures causing such terror. Granted, we see shadowy figures and hear weird noises, but what we conjure up may be more horrifying than anything created by the special effects department. Harmon also successfully includes elements reminiscent of such thrilling scarefests as Cat People (the Jacques Tourneur version) and Mimic, one of my favorite films of this genre. Cast members, though not the most important factor in a horror movie, perform admirably. Nevertheless, I'd like to recommend a few square meals for Regan, the film's slimmer-than-Audrey-Hepburn heroine. On second thought, maybe Regan's anorexic appearance added to the appealing vulnerability of her character. Because of Dominczyk's smoldering screen persona (even without her appearance in any sensuous sequences here!), I started wondering how much better Femme Fatale might have been with this impressive actress as Antonio Banderas' co-star in that recent thriller. They begins and ends with scenes so terrifying I'm still stunned. And I've decided to leave a light on every night from now on.
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Summary: I'd Rather Sleep
Review: Wes Craven is usually an original, inventive, horror guru but this was not the case with They. The movie begins with the usual scared kid in his room, being comforted by his mother after screaming out at night. After being calmed, the mother leaves her son to the light-a-phobic shadow dwellers and they come for him (cut to main character). THE BAD STUFF: The Heroine of this movie is a Sara-plain-and-tall who is finishing her thesis for her masters in psychology. She of course suffered from 'Night Terrors' as a child and has since come to terms with her past, now she is a thriving young woman with a future. Suddenly all turns up side down, a friend from the past contacts her and informs her that "THEY" are back ... !scary!! She immediately meets the crazy friend just in time to chit-chat with him before he blows his brains out. Normally this would be a very emotional and riveting scene, but it was more annoying than anything else. The script at this juncture was extremely childish and pre-packaged so that any chances and enjoyment were long gone. Now that the plot has been establish, you would expect the movie to explode with stunning situations of terror ... sorry this movie does not come with any. Two friends of the dead guy join up with our main character (who all live in weakly lit lofts or apartments, go figure) to pool their resources in an attempt to free themselves of "THEY". Normally in a movie you would expect some inventive explanation of what is going on, but the characters have no clue, and as such, nor will you. The only explanation given is that the monsters come for you initially as a child; they mark you; then retrieve you at a latter date. Once the mark returns, you're screwed! Weak all around movie! THE GOOD STUFF: On the DVD there is an alternate ending which actually had an inclining of old school Wes Craven. The main character is in an unfamiliar room that has a locked door with a window. She looks through the window and notices that she is in a mental ward, and all of the characters in the story are all either patients (like her) or doctors. She continues to look through the window when a monster smashes through; she jumps back and looks again and realizes that she just imagined that too. This, with a complete write of most of the scenes before it, would have produced at least a entertaining movie.
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Summary: More Like What?
Review: This movie is a complete waste of time. It's hard to believe that Wes Craven did something this lame and pointless. Save your money because this is as bad as Jeepers Creepers.
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Summary: Wes Craven gives us a creepy story with "They"
Review: It's nice to know that after all these years, Wes Craven can still give us some good movies. He hasn't had much since his success with the Scream trilogy(I don't consider Dracula 2000 to be one of his hits). In They, Julia Lund (Laura Regan) has here normal life interupted when an old childhood friend, Billy (played by Jon Abrahams, best known for his apperance in Scary Movie), contacts here out of the blue. Out of concern for his well-being, Julia goes to Billy where he rambles to her of his beliefs. Billy is afraid that the creatures in their night-terrors, which they both suffered from as children, are real, and have come back. Soon after, Billy commits suicide. At his funeral, Julia meets Sam and Terry (played by Ethan Embry of TV's Dragnet, and Dagmara Dominczyk, who appeared in Rockstar), they were friends of Billys. They as well suffered from the night-terrors. After many strange sightings and babbling beliefs, Julia, Terry, and Sam, all start to think that Billy might have been right, and that any one of them could be next. This movie featured many good performance's by Ethan Embry, Jon Abrahams, and Marc Blucas (best known as Riley from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Although Craven did not direct this film, the settings and atmosphere give you the same sense of terror you experianced from Nightmare on Elm Street. I highly recommend this film, not just to Craven fans, but anyone who is looking for a good movie to watch on a saturday night with all your lights turned off.
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Summary: Were You Scared of the Dark?
Review: How well do you remember your night fears, your fears of what went bump in the night, or what you imagined went bump in the night, from when you were a child? The closer you are to those fears, the better this movie will be for you. If you were one of those unimaginitive children who were not frightened of the dark, or if you have forgotten those fears, you will hate this movie--it won't scare you and you will think it is bad. The acting is pretty much stock-in-trade for a horror film, meaning that it has the usual share of ups and downs. The story gives no concrete details of what "they" are. This is one of the key points in "how well do you remember your night fears?" If you remember (if you were imaginitive enough), part of what made the dark so scary is that the fears were amorphous--all you "knew" as a kid was that there were things in the dark that were out to get you. You could imagine so many possible forms they could take, so many possible details about them, none of which were certain. Therefore, you did not know what they were, why they were after you, or how they would get you, and you had only the vaguest idea of what they looked like. You knew they kept to the shadows so that they could not be seen clearly, and you knew that when lights were shined at them, they simply were no longer there, only to reappear in another shadow or when the light was moved away. This movie plays on those exact fears, and actually gives more details than you had as a child, details which make the creatures all the more strange and frightening. If lights make them go away, as imagined in childhood, what happens if they can make the lights go out? I say again, if you are close to your night fears from childhood, if you remember them well and if they were highly imaginitive, this movie is for you. If not, avoid it like the plague, because you will hate it.
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Summary: AWSOME!!
Review: This is a very awsome, scary and original horror film with a good plot, good acting and directing. Definately see it if you liked THE RING and DARKNESS FALLS.
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Summary: Misses the mark
Review: Despite sounding and even looking like a high quality supernatural thriller, this movie really never kicks in. The storyline is based around some unknown entities that hide in the dark, kidnapping victims while disturbing electrical fields and children. This is as much as I understood after the movie was over. The scene with the disturbed child describing their tormentors as "THEY" would not be unfamiliar to anyone who has ever seen the atomic age mutant ant classic "THEM". As the movie wore on, I kept waiting for some big secret or key fact to throw everything into focus and make it all make sense but this moment never came. The DVD I saw had an alternate ending that seemed to have a completely different spin than the one in the actual feature, and this raises my suspicions that the makers of this movie were none to sure what the story was supposed to be about. Overall I'm afraid to say that I found this movie was a major disappointment.
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