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Movie Overview
Cast
• Olivia Bonamy
• Michael Cohen
Director
• Xavier Palud
• David Moreau
MPAA Rating
R - for some terror/violence
Them (2007)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 65% Fresh
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"'Them' maintains a buttoned-up attitude that, like the British slasher satire 'Severance,' proves to be its undoing."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  A. J. Hakari

4.5/5
"This superb horror thriller breaks violently into your consciousness, robbing you of all sense of security."  Channel 4 Film  Anton Bitel

"The directors have thoroughly soaked up the best of its countless predecessors, elevating Ils to highly effective and atmospheric genre entertainment."  european-films.net  Boyd van Hoeij

4/5
"77 grueling minutes"  Filmcritic.com  Chris Cabin

3/4
"It's refreshing to see the French finally producing a worthy entry in the horror genre."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  David N. Butterworth

2.5/4
"...a sporadically affecting yet undeniably uneven exercise in horror."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

C+
"A disturbing DV-shot horror thriller."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2.5/4
"A well-crafted jack-in-the-box toy that is more frightening in its ratcheted apprehension of what is to come than in the ultimate outcome."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

2/4
"One of the least understood movie monsters is the pronoun."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

B+
"Not a classic, but as a one-time theatrical experience it should scare the pee out of anyone."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

4/5
"Definitely one of the best horror films I've seen in a while, and plays to the key of terror and our imagination provoking enough imagery without the director having to do much of anything..."  Film Threat  Felix Vasquez Jr.

B+
"You know the French--it isn't content to be, merely, an exceptionally effective thriller, which it is, but sees necessary to double-up as a metacinematic examination of horror film and its theory."  Cinepinion  Henry Stewart

2.5/4
"The essentially nonexistent characterizations do little to help matters."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

1.5/4.0
"You can always expect a little embellishment for any horror film or thriller that claims to be based on a true story or actual events. This one, however, doesn't sell it."  MovieCrypt.com  Kevin A. Ranson

3/4
"Its spareness is its strength. There's no time wasted and no showy effects to detract from the situation -- just sheer tension."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

4/5
"A lean, mean, and extremely focused French horror film."  Mike Bracken's Horror Films  Mike Bracken

C
"Mostly an exercise in frustration."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

3/5
"The same old stuff served in an admittedly stylish manner."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

3.5/5
"Has a terrific slow-burning intensity as it torments its central characters (and the audience). Although it waits a bit too long to play its trump card."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

4/5
"It breezes by and slaps you with some ice water and then scurries right out of the room."  Cinematical  Scott Weinberg
OFCS Rating: 65% Fresh
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