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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaThey has a low-budget, generic feel -- but also enough sense to know that unseen menace is a lot creepier than explicit gore.
- 60Film ThreatFilm ThreatWhile it does deliver some good jolts, it never quite cranks up the terror.
- 50Village VoiceEd ParkVillage VoiceEd ParkEfficient, suitably anonymous chiller.
- 50The New York TimesDana StevensThe 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.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin 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.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickA dull, dumb and derivative horror film.
- 30Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos 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.
- 30Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago 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.
- 20VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasThey ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering from director Robert Harmon, whose debut film "The Hitcher" set a high bar for screen terror in the 1980s. Pic looks like a holiday gobbler.
- 10L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmThe film stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom.