"One of the least understood movie monsters is the pronoun." - Ed Gonzalez

*SPOILER WARNING* I'm going to spoil the hell out of this piece of shit, so if you don't want to know, don't read it. A couple lives in a big old house in the country and one night they get killed for no reason. This flick is reasonably well made, and it makes somewhat effective use of darkness and sound effects to create a tense and creepy mood. However, it turns out that the deadly assailants who terrorized them the whole time are children. CHILDREN! Fuck that. Stupidest ending ever.

i think... i was expecting something else.

Leaves the viewer feeling like he just played a very finely-crafted and very creepy survival-horror video game... and lost.

A preview of what would come from French home invasion horror.

Nice French couple living in a rambling country house outside Bucharest is menaced by faceless assailants. This is a well-paced film, directed with taste and restraint, but it lacks both flair and originality.

I liked the cinematography, the acting was OK, but the story was just ''blah'' ... it could have been much better.

Certainly very flawed - the opening eight minutes add nothing to the film, it doesn't give you enough to chew on for the half hour before the main horror starts, some of the attempts at scaring you are a bit rubbish, blinking lights at one point serve more to annoy than ramp up tension, the characters aren't desperately smart - but overall I found it perfectly serviceable little horror film. I could probably be harsher on it but it was completely inoffensive, watchable, forgettable stuff.

It started fair enough, but the sheer ludicrousness of the situations and the unlikeable couple were so offputting. The filming was actually competent and looked nice enough, but as far as any suspense/horror movies go, it ruined its own consistency and logic, especially with the reveal at the end. God, what a dumb movie.

Slow in the beginning and quite French but worth a watch.

It has problems. Characters don't answer questions, like: "Did you hear that noise?" He doesn't say "what noise?" Why? I don't know, apparently you're not allowed to answer and have a conversation about it in horror movies. People walk through the house at an excruciatingly slow pace. People don't carry a weapon when approaching a potential intruder. The acting of the first teen girl was inexcusable. Besides all that, I enjoyed it because the tension and dread was well done. I became immersed.

In the first half it basically goes like this: "Did you hear that?" "What?"...(silence)...(loud noise) "Aaarh!" The terrors are too formularic, often opting for the 'strange sounds-'effect or 'creepy silence broken by sudden loud noise'-effect, and thus the horror never creeps truly under your skin. The last half hour has some nightmarish feel to it but way too little too late.

tinerci cocuklar, psikopat cocuklar, evli cift, evde rehin kalmak, karanlik, tünelde kacis, orman, kacma kovalama, gercek bir hikaye, romanya, fransiz okulu (romanyada ögretmenlik yapan kadin ve esinin evine bir gece birileri girer. kadin ve esine saldiranlar onlari yaralar. cift evden kacip ormanda kosmaya baslar. adam bacagindan yaralidir. kadin bir tünele iner. orada da saldiri devam eder. son on dakikada heyecan artiyor oraya kadar pek canli bir hikaye yok. fena degil)

It was okay

This is probably one of the most tense films I've watched in a while. From the moment the film begins, it is already making the viewer panic. That opening scene has to be the most well shot opening horror scenes ever. Although the films weakest point is probably the plot. It claims that is based on actual events, and it seems to give some pretty realistic facts, but you never know these days with the whole "based" on actual events. But the weak plot does not at all poison the film whatsoever.

Good Movie

Conceptually, I'm completely in love with this film, and for the first 45 minutes, it was everything I had hoped it would be: a tense, disturbing home-invasion thriller. But when the action moves to the exterior my interest started to wane, culminating in the revelation of "their" identity. Why did the film do that? I was so much more engaged when I didn't know who "they" were. I would have gladly finished the movie having never found out. Something about a faceless threat is always creepier.

"A perfectly-fine stripped-down little horror movie and if you're not a hardcore horror fan you'll probably find some of it surprising."

If you like survival horror, this is film for you.

Irritating irrational-acting lead pair. Worth watching though, if you are a fan of horror that is done by sound effects and non-gore gut splashing.

Like blair witch but instead of screaming teens there is a normal french couple. LOTS of suspense, I almost couldnt bare some scenes.

A bit long even when it was only 77 minutes! It is scary to wait what's behind the corner, but not when that's the only exightment in the movie. The movie is baised on a true story and it shows - real life horror is just not that horrific.

Somebody's a fan of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"! I dunno...it seems like I've seen a million of these movies already, and although it's technically well made (nicely photographed, good performances, quality suspense)...the whole enterprise just felt slight, and a tad flat. And there are enough of the tried and true horror cliches that had me rolling my eyes on at least a half dozen occassions.

Having been spoiled by intense home invasion horror like Martyrs and À l'intérieur, I could not help but be a little underwhelmed by this one. It doesn't rely on gore, which is good, but the tension ebbs away a bit too often.

Creates quite a bit of good tension, but the build up is very slow and too drawn out. When the attacks come, they're a little underwhelming. A lot of horror-by-numbers "doing-stupid-things" and "running through the house/attic/woods/sewers." After the reveal, the somewhat interesting "ambiguous, spooky intruders terrorizing with noise" angle became a much less interesting "betrayal of innocence" perspective that seemed to drop the ball.

This is an amazing exercize in tension and subtle, ungory horror...right up until the final act where it becomes a fairly standard slasher film trying to convey a muddy moral. If you watch the first hour (?) it's fantastic. I think they just ran out of steam, which is a pity because this could've been a classic horror film.

A very good French gem in suspense. A pleasant surprise where a movie like The strangers, Vacancy, movies like that came from. The two leads were excellent in their role and to see who the antagonists at the end are make this just a tad more creepier. Even the beginning with the mother and daughter really drags you into this, but the movie is very short, but to the point. Doesn't overdo things and the fact that this was based on a true story and then what one of the villains said, creepy.

"No cheap scares, genuinely scary."

if "the strangers" was a rip off of this movie they couldnt have gone more out of the way to omit every good part of this movie and expand on the bad parts. it's an all around good movie, got great horror action--and light, but not neglected--gore. my biggest complaint is that the end was pretty stupid, and a whole lot of bs--you'll agree once you see who "they" are.