fedor8 What really sinks this semi-weird movie is the predictably disappointing ending that lets you down in every conceivable way. Most movies of this sort are good at build-up but suck at wrapping things up intelligently and neatly. (The David Lynch school of BS writing.) And that's what separates the men from the boys in cinema, the excellent mystery films from the mediocre ones. In fact, nothing is wrapped up; the conclusion is simply confusing, offering no answers at all: is he insane or not? was he cured?If you're going to revolve the ENTIRE movie around a simple two-way dilemma (insanity or aliens, in this case), you'd better reward the viewer with SOMETHING, anything. But we get squat. Very lazy. Pity, because a smart ending could have turned this into a well-made movie. Even cheesy hand-to-hand chop-sokey combat between some aliens and the two protagonists would have been better than what they gave us.Or were they saving money on CGI?

ManOfKino Wyatt has secret knowledge he can't easily divulge to others: he knows that malevolent entities are replacing humans in their own skin. Only he and a few others can hope to stave off this invasion, but it's difficult to know who can be trusted and saved, even if it's one's best friend...They Look Like People is a simply-made and effective horror film that actually isn't exactly a horror film. It has a "body snatchers" kind of story in which the stakes one of the main characters has to fight for are very personal, but on top of that said character is an unreliable one, and shares the stage with the other main character who is his best friend Christian. The tone of the film is extremely paranoid and tense (set up with small details such as Wyatt secretly taping a knife under a table when invited to Christian's apartment) and what is real or not is so well-blurred that the answer eludes the viewer until the very end. It is in that finale however in which the film's nature as a horror/thriller changes to something completely different, revealing what the message itself of the whole work is.Despite this double nature, They Look Like People features some incredibly creepy and unsettling moments and thus should be of interest to those looking strictly for horror elements. It also portrays crippling paranoia rather convincingly, while also delving into everyday problems regarding private lives and alienation. Still its greatest strength becomes apparent, in my opinion, after the film itself ends, and gives the viewer something genuinely important to reflect on.

Jess-Dellen Watch literally anything else. This isn't mysterious or a slow burn. It's unimaginative garbage. What you think it is 20 minutes in? That's what it is. Move along because there is less than nothing to see here.

hnhovitz I skimmed the IMDB reviews and thought, okay, "It's going to be a slow burn, it's not about jump scares, it's an indie film, but with a 6 it's gotta be worth it, right?" The only thing scary or remotely psychologically disturbing about this experience was that I didn't turn it off after 15 minutes like my gut told me to. It was the longest 80 minutes I've spent being trudged through a movie all year. This is an art school vanity project by an art school student who may have heard hipster voices at the Brooklyn dive bar where this was conceptualized late one night after one too many telling him to make this movie. The voices were likely drunk friends with cameras. Real voices. Now that's scary.