2007 · horror · mystery · thriller
They Wait
Directed by Ernie Barbarash1h 29m2007
Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his Aunt Mei. Already disoriented, Jason and Sarah are unnerved when their son, Sam, begins seeing ghosts and violent deaths. After Sam is hospitalized, Sarah consults with a pharmacist who's well-informed about Chinese mythology and who tells her that supernatural forces threaten her son.
Our read: They Wait (2007) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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