
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her...... (Full plot summary below)
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After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her...
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| Film ThreatRich ClineWhile it does deliver some good jolts, it never quite cranks up the terror. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIt starts pushing buttons immediately and never lets up. This proves to be both its strongest asset and, unfortunately, its biggest flaw. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThey has a low-budget, generic feel -- but also enough sense to know that unseen menace is a lot creepier than explicit gore. |
| The New York TimesDana StevensSensation, not sense, is the point of this exercise, and what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSallePerfectly acceptable, perfectly bland, competently acted but by no means a scary horror movie, in which "they" are coming to get people. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThough the story eventually runs out of steam and it's never clear why the night-crawlers torment certain children and then come back to get them, fledgling screenwriter Brendan William Hood and director Robert Harmon -- whip up some effective suspense sequences. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAs far as pronoun horrors go, They can't hold a candle to Them or It, but as an anti-tourism ad for Seattle, it's right up there with The Ring in terms of overcast, glistening panache. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThe grad student and her boyfriend (Marc Blucas) are blandly written and the story never develops any psychological depth; the paranormal explanation for what's going on is equally slight. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasThey never generates any real fear until its last minutes, by which time it is too late to redeem the dull events that preceded them. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe hilarious diminuendo of that title is such that the movie might as well have been called ''Wes Craven Presents: Not a Hell of a Lot.'' |