JOK3R The best thing about the movie is it's just over one hour so u wont feel u ruined ur time if u don't like it. The filmmakers did a good job of filling it with tension and suspense. I feel like it had a lot of potential of becoming a great film the way everything was executed but the lack of story cut its feet off pretty significantly. I would say it's more suitable as a short than a movie because of absence of so many thrilling components. It's not really scary so adding the tag "based on real events" does next to nothing. There are much better movies based on similar premise but if u have exhausted that list like me then u can definitely give this a watch. The verdict: 6/10 It's a good short , maintains suspense throughout but it fails to deliver much on that suspense and lacks a lot in story and sound that could have made this a much better movie.

king_of_maryland Not scary at all. I watched this film because it was touted as "The scariest, based on true events" film... Very disappointing. Perhaps in Europe, unarmed adults are afraid of unarmed children, but here in America, the villains are just plain laughable. The lead actress is pretty, that's about all this film has going for it.

morrison-dylan-fan Waiting in town for a friend to arrive in order to go for an hour long drive to Ikea (!) With her,I decided to pass the time by looking in a local DVD shop. Getting to the end of a terrible DVD row,I was surprised to find that the shelf actually had an interesting title,which led to me getting ready to meet them.The plot:Driving home, Clémentine spots a smashed up car lying by the side of the road (unknown to Clémentine,the car had contained a mum and daughter,who have both been brutally killed by a gang) Putting questions of the car to one side, Clémentine relaxes with her boyfriend Lucas in their country house.During the night, Clémentine and Lucas start to hear,strange,disturbing noises from the outside.Looking out of the window,Lucas and Clémentine spot a gang lurking in the shadows,who wants them to play.View on the film:Running a lean & (pretty) mean 74 minutes,the screenplay by co- writers/directors David Moreau & Xavier Palud chops into an unexpected slow-burn approach,which give Palud and Moreau to close off the couple with horrific isolation. Staying vague over the motive of the baddies,the writers brilliant limit the full appearance of the gang,to instead make them run psychological chills around the screen,which gives the bursts of violence from the couple and the gang a brittle brutality.Shot in a real sprawling old estate in Romania,directors Moreau & Palud take full advantage of the vast location with tightly coiled tracking shots from every side of the house raining the claustrophobia down on Lucas and Clémentine.Hitting out in grainy digital,the directors and cinematographer Axel Cosnefroy cleverly use the format to give the title a grime-covered chiller atmosphere,by the grainy format rolling the shadows round the ankles of Clémentine (played by a great,hard nails Olivia Bonamy-who suffered from claustrophobia during production) and Lucas, (played by a very good,rugged Michaël Cohen) as they try to outplay them who want to play most.

RevRonster While "Them" wasn't poorly made, I just couldn't get into it.The acting is decent and the story is your typical home-invasion affair that is pretty common in the genre of horror (and, of course, it's claim to be based on a true story) but the problem came from the fact the characters aren't really developed enough that I found myself capable of caring for them and the story is just too familiar. Additionally, the film bravely decides to opt-out of using music to cue the shocking scenes and the moments meant to scare but the editing in the film proved to be the undoing with this move because, too often, scenes went on too long and they seemed to be giving the audience time to prepare and be caught totally ON-guard for what was to come next.The film also tries to put a fresh coat of paint by twisting up the usual home-invader and the motive behind said invasion but, after watching a story that basically boils down to watching a person run, hide, look for the chaser, run again and repeat, I found myself completely unable to even be a little bit impressed or even surprised by the reveal—not to mention that how the filmmakers decide to tell you the motive behind it all was just lazy and felt like a last minute addition."Them" wasn't put together poorly and it really had some potential but these films just don't spook or scare me. So any scene that was meant to be tension-filled and suspenseful came off slow-going and boring.