They (2002 film)

• Laura Regan: Julia Lund
• Marc Blucas: Paul Loomis
• Ethan Embry: Sam Burnsdine
• Dagmara Dominczky: Terry Alba
• Jon Abrahams: Billy Parks
• Alexander Gould: Young Billy
• Mark Hildreth: Troy
• Jonathan Cherry: Darren
• Jessica Amlee: Young Julia
• Jay Brazeau: Dr. Booth
• L. Harvey Gold: Professor Crowley
• David Abbott: Professor Adkins
• Jodelle Ferland: Sarah

They - come (Original Title: Wes Craven Presents They or shortly They, Alternative Title: They - Fear the Dark) is an American horror film of 2002, despite the original title did not result in Wes Craven, but Robert Harmon as director.. The main role was played Laura Regan.

Action

From her boyfriend Billy learns Julia that this is haunted since childhood by nightmares. Though it fared in childhood as well, she does not believe him. Billy desperately commits suicide, but Julia finds two other fellow sufferers and it is getting worse plagued by nightmares. Finally, it turns out that she is haunted by beings who are not visible to other people. Just escape so, Julia goes to an institution. But the doctors can not prevent them from ultimately being can not escape.

Review

TV movie writes of a " hackneyed plot ", but ultimately comes to a positive conclusion because "the whole [ a ] attracts more and more under his spell ."

Mario Rossel writes, the film sat " on the atmosphere and the imagination of the audience " and play " doing well with the fears of the spectators ." He also praised the performance of the lead actress Laura Regan. Negative, he notes that the film for fans of the genre is nothing new was partly predictable and, moreover, he noticed some lengths in the plot.

Background

The film premiered on 27 November 2002 in the U.S. and on 16 August 2003 at the Hamburg Film Festival premiere. They was a financial failure, he only played about 16 million U.S. dollars with a production budget of about 17 million U.S. dollars. The film was shot in Canada.