This is about as lame and pointless as a horror movie can get.
The full title is "Wes Craven Presents They", but I couldn't find anything on the IMDb about Wes Craven having anything to do with it. He should count himself lucky; the man can direct a good movie, but apparently hasn't a clue when it comes to "presenting" something (the last movie he "presented" was "Wishmaster", which was even worse).
The film is about a group of young adults who all suffered from night terrors (sudden, intense fears in the night) as children. So the plot the writers pasted on has to do with the idea that these night terrors were caused by these slimy, spider-like creatures from, I don't know, an alternate dimension. Now, for some reason, these creatures HAVE COME BACK FOR THEM! (gasp in terror).
What are they? Where do they come from? What do they want? Why are they coming back for these characters? What do they really look like? Why am I watching this? The screenplay doesn't even attempt to answer any of these questions (especially that last one), and instead just settles for the highest number of "What was that noise/Who's there?" scenes I've ever seen in one movie. One literally follows another the entire time.
"They" steals from so many movies it's hard to keep track, but most blatant is a scene lifted directly from the entertaining, little-seen 80's horror/comedy "House", in which a medicine cabinet becomes a doorway into another world.
Repetitive, dull, predictable, not scary, and it has an attempted "Gotcha!" ending that instead just comes off as annoyingly anti-climactic.
Star Laura Regan is pretty and doesn't seem to be that bad an actress, but as her boyfriend, Marc Blucas (who was so good as Riley in the 4th season of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer), is astonishingly bad.
Skip it. You'll thank me.
The full title is "Wes Craven Presents They", but I couldn't find anything on the IMDb about Wes Craven having anything to do with it. He should count himself lucky; the man can direct a good movie, but apparently hasn't a clue when it comes to "presenting" something (the last movie he "presented" was "Wishmaster", which was even worse).
The film is about a group of young adults who all suffered from night terrors (sudden, intense fears in the night) as children. So the plot the writers pasted on has to do with the idea that these night terrors were caused by these slimy, spider-like creatures from, I don't know, an alternate dimension. Now, for some reason, these creatures HAVE COME BACK FOR THEM! (gasp in terror).
What are they? Where do they come from? What do they want? Why are they coming back for these characters? What do they really look like? Why am I watching this? The screenplay doesn't even attempt to answer any of these questions (especially that last one), and instead just settles for the highest number of "What was that noise/Who's there?" scenes I've ever seen in one movie. One literally follows another the entire time.
"They" steals from so many movies it's hard to keep track, but most blatant is a scene lifted directly from the entertaining, little-seen 80's horror/comedy "House", in which a medicine cabinet becomes a doorway into another world.
Repetitive, dull, predictable, not scary, and it has an attempted "Gotcha!" ending that instead just comes off as annoyingly anti-climactic.
Star Laura Regan is pretty and doesn't seem to be that bad an actress, but as her boyfriend, Marc Blucas (who was so good as Riley in the 4th season of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer), is astonishingly bad.
Skip it. You'll thank me.