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nicfit · 10.31.2007, 11:16 AM

"Them (2006)
Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN SAYS: ''If you'll notice, most of the films on my list are from many, many years ago. For the most part, I'm not interested in horror films that I see today. But Them is an exception. It's based on a true story, and similar to Funny Games, it's about some young people who go around a small vacation town and kidnap various visitors, take them to a house, torture them, and kill them. For the entire length of the picture, you have no idea who's doing this or why, and then the final scene kind of explains it. Those sequences of hunting, capturing, and torturing are really among the most brilliant that I've ever seen.''

Well, that is not what happens in the movie, actually

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10.31.2007, 11:16 AM	#6
nicfit invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: banana boat Posts: 15,570	"Them (2006) Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud WILLIAM FRIEDKIN SAYS: ''If you'll notice, most of the films on my list are from many, many years ago. For the most part, I'm not interested in horror films that I see today. But Them is an exception. It's based on a true story, and similar to Funny Games, it's about some young people who go around a small vacation town and kidnap various visitors, take them to a house, torture them, and kill them. For the entire length of the picture, you have no idea who's doing this or why, and then the final scene kind of explains it. Those sequences of hunting, capturing, and torturing are really among the most brilliant that I've ever seen.'' Well, that is not what happens in the movie, actually .... __________________ 11:11 11-11-11 I Ascended.
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