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NUMBERS
Box Office: $12,575,046
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CONSENSUS
They fails to sustain the level of creepiness necessary to rise above other movies in the horror genre.
CAST & CREW
Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Dagmara Dominczyk
Directed by Robert Harmon
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SYNOPSIS
Robert Harmon's psychological thriller tells the tale of a graduate student whose childhood comes back to haunt her. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, terror/violence, sexual content, and language
RUNTIME
90 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Nov 27, 2002
Video: Jun 10, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Dimension Films
GENRE
Horror/Suspense, Horror, Psychology
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official They Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "This is a superior horror flick."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "One suspects that Craven endorses They simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"'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."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Too ordinary to restore [Harmon] to prominence, despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors, and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience."
-- Christopher Tookey, LONDON DAILY MAIL
"When you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie, you know the picture is in trouble."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Robert Harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows."
-- Erich Scholz, CITYSEARCH
"One of the best silly horror movies of recent memory, with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
"With the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror spoof, which They isn't, it is more likely to induce sleep than fright."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"The movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating, though, even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance."
-- John J. Puccio, DVDTOWN.COM
"There’s nothing to gain from watching They. It isn’t scary. It hates its characters. It finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
"A horror movie with seriously dumb characters, which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness."
-- Adam Nayman, EYE WEEKLY
"They takes a long time to get to its gasp-inducing ending."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"Stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom."
-- Paul Malcolm, L.A. WEEKLY
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"Forget other scary movies with freaky Internet sites, dastardly murderers, ghosts on boats, spooky videotapes, they aren't half as scary as a gothic good old horror film about monsters that live under the bed"
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"There is very little dread or apprehension, and though I like the creepy ideas, they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Characters wander into predictably treacherous situations even though they should know better."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"On the heels of The Ring comes a similarly morose and humorless horror movie that, although flawed, is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness."
-- Nick Rogers, STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER (SPRINGFIELD, IL)
"If a horror movie's primary goal is to frighten and disturb, then They works spectacularly well...A shiver-inducing, nerve-rattling ride."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"Wes Craven’s presence is felt; not the Craven of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' or 'The Hills Have Eyes,' but the sad schlock merchant of 'Deadly Friend.'"
-- Jonathan R. Perry, TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH (TEXAS)
"With its hint of an awkward Hitchcockian theme in tact, Harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone"
-- Frank Ochieng, MOVIE EYE
"They were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening, afraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn. They were right."
-- Roger Moore, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Harmon opts to show less and suggest more, and the script's gloomy downer of an ending is audacious."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"I walked away not really know who “they” were, what “they” looked like. Why “they” were here and what “they” wanted and quite honestly, I didn’t care."
-- Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
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ROTTEN 36%
Avg. Rating: 4/10 |
"What it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"They has a low-budget, generic feel -- but also enough sense to know that unseen menace is a lot creepier than explicit gore."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Efficient, suitably anonymous chiller."
-- Ed Park, VILLAGE VOICE
"Julia is played with exasperating blandness by Laura Regan."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
"A dull, dumb and derivative horror film."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"A perfectly acceptable, perfectly bland, competently acted but by no means scary horror movie."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller/horror genre."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"The attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering."
-- Scott Foundas, VARIETY
"What happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares?"
-- Gary Dowell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
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"An awful snooze."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "They" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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