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Encyclopedia > They (film)
They

Movie poster for the They.
Directed by Robert Harmon
Produced by Tom Engelman
Ted Field
Written by Brendan Hood
Starring Laura Regan
Marc Blucas
Ethan Embry
Dagmara Dominczyk
Jon Abrahams
Distributed by Dimension Films
Release date(s) November 27, 2002 (USA)
Running time 89 min.
Language English
Budget $17 million (estimated)
IMDb profile

They (also known as Wes Craven Presents: They) is the title of a horror film released in 2002. The plot centers on the phenomenon of night terrors and their impact on the lives of adults who experienced them as children. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (450x669, 144 KB) This image is of a film poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the film or the studio which produced the film in question. ... = == = Robert Harmon, born may 11 1981 monrovia, Liberia. ... Ted Field (1953 - ), music producer, movie producer, and heir to the Marshall Fields department store fortune. ... Laura Regan (born in 1977 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Jessica Lynch in the movie Saving Jessica Lynch. ... Marc Blucas Marc Blucas Marc Blucas Marcus Paul Blucas (born January 11, 1972 in Butler, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... Ed ONeill (left) as Det. ... Dagmara Dominczyk as Mercedes in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002 film) Dagmara Dominczyk (born July 17, 1976) is a Polish actress. ... Jon Avery Abrahams (born 29 October 1977 in New York) is an American actor, most notably playing Bobby Prinze in the horror spoof Scary Movie. ... Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Wesley Earl Craven (born August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed Nightmare on Elm Street series featuring the redoubtable Freddy Krueger character. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. ...


The film has received a very mixed reaction since its release, but it should also be said that They had a very troubled production with many reshoots by Rick Bota and rewrites by an estimated group of ten people including Joel Soisson and Frank Spotnitz. The original spec script by Brendan Hood (which has developed a cult following online via websites where it has been posted) had absolutely nothing to do with night terrors, and not a single word of his work ended up in the finished film aside from the title and a few character names. Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning writer and producer best known for his work on “The X-Files” television series. ...


A combination of science fiction, subtle horror, and full-scale paranoia in the vein of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," the original spec dealt with a group of four recent college grads who make a terrifying discovery: our planet is populated by a race of organic machines which prey upon human beings for "spare parts" and have the power to erase their victim's identities (as well as the memories of others) out of existence. Soon afterwards, the college kids start to vanish from photographs, their identification disappears, and family members fail to recognize them. As the students are picked off, one by one, the script's main character realizes that both she and her friends aren't the first people who have suffered their inescapable fate, and they certainly won't be the last. The original script's central idea combined fears of rampant technology and loss of identity with several memorable, creep-out scenes: the students accidentally hit a dog with their car on a darkened, lonely road -- only to discover that it isn't a dog at all, a little girl confides about something which is watching her from a shed, and a boy offers a truly hideous smile on a subway train. Nevertheless, the producers who bought the script in the summer of 2000 threw out Hood's entire concept and started over from scratch.


At least three endings were eventually filmed, but only two are present on the DVD. With several release date changes, poor test audience scores, and box office failure, They is not what Robert Harmon and Brendan Hood intended it to be, but what the producers molded it into. = == = Robert Harmon, born may 11 1981 monrovia, Liberia. ...

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Plot

They tells the story of a Psychology grad student named Julia (Laura Regan) and an event that turns her life upside down. As a child she experienced horrifying night terrors, but has seemingly overcome the problem. She reunites with a childhood friend, Billy (Jon Abrahams), and he tells her that he believes their night terrors are caused by something otherworldly and warns her to stay out of the dark, before suddenly committing suicide. At his funeral, Julia meets two of Billy's friends who slowly begin to believe his claims. Julia's night terrors return and she begins to doubt her perception of the world around her. Laura Regan (born in 1977 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Jessica Lynch in the movie Saving Jessica Lynch. ... A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. ... Jon Avery Abrahams (born 29 October 1977 in New York) is an American actor, most notably playing Bobby Prinze in the horror spoof Scary Movie. ...


Cast

Laura Regan (born in 1977 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Jessica Lynch in the movie Saving Jessica Lynch. ... Marc Blucas Marc Blucas Marc Blucas Marcus Paul Blucas (born January 11, 1972 in Butler, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... Ed ONeill (left) as Det. ... Jon Avery Abrahams (born 29 October 1977 in New York) is an American actor, most notably playing Bobby Prinze in the horror spoof Scary Movie. ... Alexander Jerome Gould (born May 4, 1994) is an American child actor. ... Jodelle Micah Ferland (born October 9, 1994 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a young Canadian actress. ...

See also

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Sleep paralysis is a term either used to describe the normal paralysis of the body that occurs during REM sleep, or the disorder in which awareness is maintained when the body becomes paralysed when entering sleep (known as hypnogogic paralysis) or remains inappropriately paralysed when awakening (known as hypnopompic paralysis). ...

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