This new French scare flick really does look like it might deliver. There's posters for it all over the London underground (it opens here on Jan 26). Check out these two trailers, but be warned don't watch the first one if you have a heart condition (imagine watching that with an audience)!:
THEM teaserTHEM: official UK trailer When I saw this a few months ago I wasn't too impressed. A few good scare moments but mostly it's pretty average doesn't offer anything new. I was grateful for its unusually short running time. On the other hand, my taste in films is frequently a very poor indication of popular opinion.
I did still keep the promo squeezable stress-ball I got at the screening though, so I hope the film becomes a huge success so I can stick it on eBay. :P
Pretty much what I was expecting...someone did a trailer based on the internet practical joke where something jumps at you from a boring screen.
"Eh" for delivery.
I thought this was a tidy little film done on a low budget. Well worth the effort of seeing it. Think a very effective episode of THRILLER or such like.
I absolutely hated this. I just saw it and I'm still angry...
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MASSIVE SPOILERS
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I MEAN IT...MASSIVE!
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There is no story here, no plot in the true sense. It's a scenario and nothing more. The whole thing is set up to make you think something other-worldly is going on but there's no payoff for this. The Scooby-Doo ending where it all turns out to be pesky kids rather than something else isn't as shocking as the filmmaker's think it is - we've seen killer kid movies before. If you were to write a movie about such things, insight into the killers' motives, background and modus operandi would carry some dramatic weight but this movie has none of that. Things happen with no explanation, co-incidences abound, much of it beggars belief. No character development, nobody learns anything. The unresolved ending is wrapped up with a simple text screen saying that our protagonists' bodies were found by police and the killers were arrested in the next town some time later. The kind of happy-ever-after text coda that Chinese authorities impose on films so that the bad guys aren't seen to win in the end (e.g. ON THE RUN). The photography is muddy, the final shot where the protagonist "disappears" is clumsily edited. It's bloodless, nudity-free and utterly pointless.
Victor