They (2002)

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The actual concept for the film is very frightening and creepy, but the execution of the film is a mess. The basic idea is that children who suffer from night terrors aren't just having bad dreams, they're being marked by aliens who come back for them 20 years later. They are treating the humans as livestock, picking the cream of the crop as children and implanting them with basically a meat thermometer. They then live out their lives unsuspectingly, just like cattle do, the whole time the aliens watching and waiting until its time to harvest them. Once they're ready the implant pops up just like a turkey thermometer and a wound appears. A tiny scab our characters pick at unsuspectingly, until they discover its an implant signaling the aliens that its time to come get their order. Even creepier is the children KNOW this is what is happening. From their dreams they know the aliens want to eat them.but then instead of building upon that premise into a great film, we get a standard horror cliché with lights turning off, doors opening by themselves and phones, elevators, lighters, any device you need to work in an emergency suddenly won't work at all. Several scenes of barely seeing something out of the corner of your eye, and by the end of the film you'll wish it stayed there because when the aliens are finally revealed its with some of the worst CGI imaginable. Its almost like the Producers realized in post- production the movie didn't turn out so good and cut the special effects budget. All in all the movie really could have been better but somewhere in the midst of script rewrites it lost its way.

Pay attention to THEY; this movie actually is worthy of your efforts with just enough scare factor. Julia Lund(Laura Regan)is a pleasant psychology grad student that keeps in contact with several of her childhood friends; they all have something in common...as children they had frightening "night terrors". Julia's boyfriend Paul(Marc Blucas)is a medic by profession and feels he is of sound mind; but begins fearing Julia's sanity. One of her friends, Billy(Jon Abrahams), fears that his nightmares have returned and ends up dead...suicide is out of the question. When the lights go out, monsters of the mind come out to possess victims. Julia is determined to keep the lights on and rationally figure a way to harness the "night terrors". It is said that at times Wes Craven is given credit for this project; but in actuality he contributed nothing toward the movie. Other actors credited: Ethan Embry, Jonathan Cherry, Dagmara Dominczyk and Marc Blucas. Some real scary scenes and you can't help but get a little jumpy during the final twenty minutes or so of this chiller.

OK... well this movie, like most, has ups and downs. If you do not know the story, its that a bad actress with a hideously long neck watches some emo dude kill himself. She meets the emo guys friends who share her problem and Mr. Emo guys problem- they had night terrors, or bad nightmares. The friends get killed by the sandman(metallica reference, anyone??)and they have a weird mark. Julia (the giraffe) finds her mark and fights the things. In the end, her boyfriend has her institutionalized and she is dragged to hell.OK well +'s. The effects were great. The movie was great on atmosphere and mystery, even though we see the creatures, we still wonder. The acting was OK in parts. The story and concept were great. Very Freddy-ish. The music was good in parts.Now the bad-most of the acting. You find yourself laughing at some of the acting. The music at times has you dry heaving. The stories told by characters are entertaining, but ridiculously cheesy. The script was pretty mediocre in 3/4 of this movie. Final Verdict- watch it. While stupid and somewhat cheesy, the atmosphere is amazing and the special effects are good. Entertaining as hell.

If you understand that this is PG-13 then you will know there isn't much gore in this and you will get that out of your head. The story was simple and creepy, the acting was decent, and the scares were realistic. I loved the scene with the Julia and Billy when he kills himself. That was awesome. I actually wish we saw more of his character because he was the most interesting character in the film. Overall, I thought it was a decent little movie that got little recognition. BTW, I loved the ending - it fit with the rest of the film. Here are my complaints: it was a bit boring at points, and it was light on scares. Other than that, it was decent.