They

They
by Robert Harmon

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Movie Review: The Horror of Reliving Childhood
Summary: 5 Stars

And what if that fear wasn't simply something of a childhood trauma playing out, but was something more sinister and far more real? What if those sounds had figures and they came back for you now?

Within "They," the ideas themselves are not original and the process of eliminating the characters is nothing that audiences haven't seen. All fans of the genre have heard these thoughts recycled over and over again, and all of those reprocessed affairs never seem to lead to new revelations on what being afraid truly amounts to.
But the fear that is produced therein is effective nonetheless, not really needing to be something unique to allow one to shiver and fear the dark.

By using a cascade of effects that let the shadows breathe just out of sight, you can see images that aren't quite images as they skulk into the "real world" in search of something that eludes their "reality bound," docile prey. As the movie progresses, those shadows show more and more of what they are, too, and the beasts therein seem like something out the nightmarish Silent Hill 2 while culminating on other plateaus.
As the onlooker, you find yourself sitting at a table with characters who peer into the shadows that you wouldn't want to look into, and you know that something is lurking there and that it is looking back.
Honestly, it is a frightening affair in some places.

Added to that are people that seem like people, with lives that try to mingle in the world of absolutes but that find themselves disassociated as the themes progress. From the initial blows landed, with the shock causing little reality waves to the worlds awash in nightmares, you find yourself watching faces that find themselves thrust into a world where they are, in so many ways, lost and looked at as crazy.
This leads to some moments that are a little odd and disconnected, but that are nonetheless interesting to watch because the disintegration of lives as monstrosities terrorize them is oftentimes beyond the mundane.

The one complaint I would voice is that some people jump into the pool of thought from far left field, leaving you to feel like you've missed something at first. Things do come around and are explained, mind you, but that initial confusion is something that I've never liked breeding in my mind.

Still, if you like your shadows with claws, the darkness with an agenda, and your endings unhappy, then the flaws are easily overlooked. Little kids being taken and marked, disappearing into the night, isn't something you get from a genre that has become infested with "let the little boy go" mentalities too often in this PC world of demise. Here, in those nightmarish alleyways, is something akin to horrific redemption from that fatal movie flaw and it is nice to behold.
If only the shadows bore gore, too.

Summary of They