Them

Directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud's debut feature is a disappointingly clichéd "horreur", returning to that hoary old chestnut of the genre, the isolated house in the woods. The terrified residents in this case are a writer and his wife (Cohen and Bonamy), whose domestic bliss in the Romanian countryside comes under attack from "Them". To reveal the exact nature of Them is to give away the one surprise the movie has to offer, given that the paper-thin plot and narrative devices have been seen so many times before. Moreau and Palud have recently been hired to direct the pointless Hollywood remake of the Pang Brothers' superior horror flick, The Eye. Now that's terrifying. [Colan Mehaffey]