A psychology student who experienced night terrors as a child must face the chilling realization that her nightmares were not all in her head.
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This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
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
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.
After her childhood friend Billy (Jon Abrahams) commits suicide, convinced that something waiting in the dark is going to eat him, psychology student Julia Lund (Laura Regan) becomes convinced that she is also being stalked by creatures who intend to to her harm.My automatic reaction to seeing the words 'Wes Craven presents' on a DVD cover used to be to put it straight back where it came from: to me, having a film-maker who has zero connection with a production lend his name to help shift units smacked of desperation. The strange thing is, having now seen a few of the films that Wes has endorsed, I can honestly say that they're not as bad as a lot of horror films I've seen (including a few of Craven's own!).'They', for instance, is is a textbook example of how to develop a solid scary movie out of the flimsiest of set-ups; the story (if one can even call it that) goes absolutely nowhere over the course of an hour and a half, but is fun while it lasts. Director Robert Harmon wrings every last ounce of tension from his unexceptional set-up, preying on the audience's inherent fear of the unknown, repeatedly immersing his characters in darkness where something dreadful lurks waiting to whisk them away to somewhere terrible.Harmon wisely keeps the film's creatures, who attack those who are afraid of the dark, as indistinct as possible, well aware that what the viewer will conjure up in their mind will be far more terrifying than any CGI special effect. All Harmon shows us are vague, inhuman forms scuttling in the shadows, making some really creepy sounds as they stalk their victim—and that's all is really required to deliver some decent jump scares and hair-raising moments of fear.Sadly, after such a fine build up, the film wraps up matters in a really weak fashion no matter which of the two endings you watch: ending A) Julia's mad and the creatures don't exist, or ending B) Julia's not mad and the creatures do exist. Neither makes for a particularly satisfying conclusion, but neither is terrible enough for one to dismiss the film entirely.
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.