XoWizIama
Excellent adaptation.
AshUnow
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Candida
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
tughan_a
When i watched it 15 years ago, i just loved it, great horror title. I watched it several times after also, as it happens on all horror titles, watching same movie may not be same effect each time but it is just enough to make audience on the edge of their chair at first time.. Wes Craven at his best, no wonder why it is so compelling... It is really hard to understand this low ranking of the title, perhaps its because many people cannot really connect anymore to their younger self to address the emotional level of this movie. You cant really enjoy this movie if only what you like is heck&slash zombie horrors or gross entertainment... This movie is simple fear and you are gonna get it right or you are not at all... don't watch it with biased comments, just watch it...You might just love it, not because of the comments here but because you really would do...9/10
GL84
Trying to gain her psychology master, a student suffering from night terrors as well as several of her friends learn that they're being triggered by a series of attacks brought by creatures living in the shadows and must find a way of stopping them from continuing to hunt them.This was a decent if overall rather forgettable effort. Among the few things it does right here is really sell the idea of the strange creatures and their world they represent here that there's a great framework needed for horror villains. The idea of marking their prey through night terrors as a child and then coming back to collect them as adults is quite an effective idea, and the rules needed for them to become viable once again makes for a rather enjoyable creature here. From their ability to tamper with electricity by causing blackouts or surges enough to break the light altogether or the way in which they create a sense of loneliness in their attacks, it has the sort of general fear and desperation of being attacked by that kind of entity. Likewise, beyond this setup there's also the film's incredibly fun and frantic attack scenes of the creatures getting into play here as this one has some awesome scenes here, from the swimming pool encounter and his scenes in the apartment to the absolutely stellar stalking scenes in the tunnel after the train trip all being fast, frantic scenes that are much better than expected. Still, that's also what signals the start of the flaws here as these attack scenes are so haphazard and tame that there's very little appeal to the scenes as they're so bloodless and utterly devoid of any kind of true horror appreciation since they're edited to try to be chilling but can't because of the rating. Not having any kind of blood or gore in here during all these different attacks is an immensely distressing factor here by this one never really getting any kind of big effect which sells what's going on as it misses the big picture of the scenes. There's also the fact that there's such a discrepancy with the scenes here in being long, involved scenes compared to the other scenes which are fast and really crazed that it creates a really disjointed pacing of making the action scenes look good until the kills and has long, bland scenes in between them. The last flaw here is the creatures' lack of explanation for appearance here as there's never anything given about why they target the people, how they work or anything about them and it makes them far less frightening. These here are what really holds this one back.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.
mareshal21
First of all, I absolutely believe that this movie is underrated.This movie is somehow different from the other horror movies. It leaves a mark in your mind, you remember this movie. It has a interesting storyline. Acting is not bad. Maybe the ending could be improved and the graphics could have been better. But compared to the movies nowadays "They" should have at least a note of 6,5. It is creepier and more interesting than the young-group-gets-trapped type of movies. Also it has a atmosphere that catches the viewer and forces him/her to lock to the screen.I'd agree to disagree anyone who thinks this movie doesn't worth a 6,5.
chillis-796-360101
The camera work on this film is gorgeous--you feel almost every moment as if you are immersed in a dream-like/almost waking state along with the main character, never quite knowing what to believe. The problems come with the complete mistrust of everyone around the main character that she has any credibility at all--when she tries to assert the idea that something not-so-normal is happening, NO ONE in her life believes her, not even the man she loves. The woman is one step from her Masters in Psych--you would think she MIGHT know a thing or two about delusions! Now, on to the effective moments...and there are some very effective moments. We feel the dread the characters feel who are suffering from the revisiting "night terrors," and we feel the main characters increasing panic as she realizes what's next for herself. When these people are creeped out, so are you.The "gotcha" moments are worth putting up with the little problems...give it a shot.
