They Wait

They Wait

Official film poster
Directed by Ernie Barbarash
Produced by Diane Boehme
Uwe Boll
Stephen Hegyes
Andrew Koster
Jonathan Shore
Shawn Williamson
Written by Trevor Markwart (story)
Trevor Markwart
Carl Bessai
Doug Taylor
Starring Terry Chen
Jaime King
Regan Oey
Cheng Pei-pei
Henry O
Colin Foo
Michael Biehn
Yee Jee Tso
Music by Hal Beckett
Cinematography Gregory Middleton
Edited by Lisa Robison
Distributed by Brightlight Pictures
Release dates
 2007
Running time
 89 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

They Wait is a 2007 Canadian horror film.[1] It stars Jaime King as a mother attempting to find the truth and save her son, Regan Oey, when threatened by spirits during the Chinese tradition of Ghost Month. The other leading star is Chinese Canadian actor Terry Chen, who plays her husband. It was both filmed, and set, in the city of Vancouver, in British Columbia in Canada, and was featured at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival.

Plot

Married couple Sarah (King) and Jason (Chen), and son Sammy (Oey), travel to Vancouver for the funeral of Uncle Raymond (Foo). During this time, Sammy begins to see ghosts and falls gravely ill, his illness coinciding with the Chinese festival of Ghost Month. After traditional western medicine fails to help Sammy, Sarah turns to a mysterious pharmacist who tells her that her son is held in a death grip by a living corpse. Sarah now must find what the spirits want before the last day of Ghost Month, or Sammy will be lost forever.

Cast

Production

They Wait was filmed on location in Vancouver in March 2007.[2]

Reception

Critical reviews for the film have been mixed, with the film currently holding a 40% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Joe Leydon of Variety wrote that "Director Ernie Barbarash makes judicious use of CGI trickery -- in one key scene, he cleverly shocks his audience into laughing -- but at heart, he's an old-school traditionalist when it comes to scary stuff." [3] The Toronto Star and ReelFilm both panned the film, with ReelFilm's David Nusair saying that They Wait is "...a tedious and downright silly piece of work."[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "TIFF: First Horror Film Announced, 'They Wait'". Bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  2. ↑ "THEY WAIT for Jaime King and Michael Biehn". Fangoria. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  3. ↑ They Wait Variety
  4. ↑ 'They Wait': Not a ghost of a chance Toronto Star
  5. ↑ They Wait ReelFilm

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