A psychology student finds all her childhood fears and phobias becoming real after a traumatic event.A psychology student finds all her childhood fears and phobias becoming real after a traumatic event.A psychology student finds all her childhood fears and phobias becoming real after a traumatic event.
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Peter LaCroix
- David Parks
- (as Peter Lacroix)
Jodelle Ferland
- Sarah
- (as Jodelle Micah Ferland)
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- TriviaIn the original unaltered script by Brendan Hood, the plot dealt with a group of four recent college grads who discover that Earth is actually run by a race of organic machines which allow the human race to exist so that they can kill them and harvest their corpses for 'spare parts' as "Their" bodies break down and deteriorate.
- GoofsIn the opening stormy weather scene lightening and thunder crash and the power goes out. Young Billy's flashlight quits working as the scene shifts back to young Billy's window there is a night-light lamp that is still illuminated.
- Alternate versionsA work print shown to test audiences features an open credits sequence of young Julia sleeping.
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Written by Ryan McAllister
Performed by Dakona
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They Come With the Dark
While preparing for the examination of her Master Degree in Psychology, Julia Lund (Laura Regan) is called by her friend from childhood Billy Parks (Jo Abrahams) to meet him in a bar. They both had nightmares when they were children, and Billy is totally disturbed with demons from the dark that would be chasing him and commits suicide in front of Julia. The traumatic experience, plus the meeting with two friends of Billy, Sam Burnside (Ethan Embry) and his girlfriend Terry Alba (Dagmara Dominczyk), in the funeral make Julia having nightmares again. When Sam tells her that they four have been tagged in their childhood, and demons are coming to get them to the darkness, Julia becomes afraid of the dark and asks for help to her boyfriend Paul Loomis (Marc Blucas).
"They" is a promising good movie that fails in the conclusion, which is not satisfactory. This movie is not totally bad, but I prefer "Fear of the Dark" (2002), which explores the same theme using the psychological factor of the common fear of the dark that children might have. The option in "They" of making the demons real, with reasonable special effects, is sillier, unexplained and not so scary. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Habitantes da Escuridão" ("Inhabitants of the Darkness")
"They" is a promising good movie that fails in the conclusion, which is not satisfactory. This movie is not totally bad, but I prefer "Fear of the Dark" (2002), which explores the same theme using the psychological factor of the common fear of the dark that children might have. The option in "They" of making the demons real, with reasonable special effects, is sillier, unexplained and not so scary. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Habitantes da Escuridão" ("Inhabitants of the Darkness")
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- claudio_carvalho
- Apr 1, 2006
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Box office
- Budget
- $17,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,840,842
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,144,090
- Dec 1, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $16,446,271
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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