Them (French: Ils) is a 2006 French-Romanian horror film directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud.
A mother and daughter drive along a deserted country road at night while having an argument and crash their vehicle.
He swings a poker at an intruder and shatters the door glass, his leg getting impaled by a large shard in the process.
The film ends with a group of four hooded children emerging from the woods and running for a bus.
On-screen text explains that the bodies of Clémentine and Lucas were found five days later and that the murderers were children aged 10–15.
The "true story" on which the film is supposedly based is that of an Austrian couple who were murdered by three teenagers while vacationing in the Czech Republic, but no concrete evidence has emerged to prove this tale.
According to Moreau, Olivia Bonamy had suffered from claustrophobia, and so during the scene where her character Clémentine crawls through the narrow tunnels, much of her performance was her genuine fear of being in the tight spaces.
The site's critical consensus reads, "Suspenseful and tense from start to finish, the French horror film Them proves that a lack of gore doesn't mean a dearth of scares.