Accepted for what it is (and, critically, what it is not), and viewers should find it a rock-solid amusement park of a movie.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 7, 2024

Lean, mean and will leave your underpants anything but clean.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

...a sporadically affecting yet undeniably uneven exercise in horror.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 1, 2009

A disturbing DV-shot horror thriller.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 11, 2009

Mostly an exercise in frustration.

| Original Score: C | Feb 9, 2009

Definitely one of the best horror films I've seen in a while, and plays to the key of terror and our imagination provoking enough imagery without the director having to do much of anything...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2008

You can always expect a little embellishment for any horror film or thriller that claims to be based on a true story or actual events. This one, however, doesn't sell it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Jan 10, 2008

First-time directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud have crafted a highly effective horror film that combines a plausible narrative with accomplished use of sound and image.

| Jan 3, 2008

The final 20 minutes contain some of the best, uncontrived twists of any post-Sixth Sense American suspense film, but there is a good reason for that, as the co-directors reveal with a shocking epilogue.

| Oct 23, 2007

This freshman effort from the French team of David Moreau and Xavier Palud would rate an A in film school. But that doesn't mean it's worth seeing.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2007

The essentially nonexistent characterizations do little to help matters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2007

Moreau and Palud play on the way our minds fill in the gaps of the unknown and the very primal fear of things going bump in the night.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2007

A nerve-wracking finale, a 30-minute chase through the house's catacombs, followed by a closing image that will chill you to the bone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 14, 2007

Those who don't need all that graphic content to be jolted and unnerved may find a few things to like here.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 13, 2007

It's refreshing to see the French finally producing a worthy entry in the horror genre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2007

Those who like their horror served up neat, no chaser, can safely belly up to Them. It is a pared-down French thriller that trades splatter and gore for tense efficiency.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 7, 2007

There is absolutely no fat on this brief, 74-minute film, but even as you get caught up in the suspense you come to realize that there isn't much meat on it, either.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 6, 2007

A well made, if extremely hollow, technical exercise... so wafer-thin, I'm a little wary of calling it a movie. It's more like a photographed premise.

Full Review | Sep 6, 2007