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{{Infobox film
| name = They're Watching
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*Micah Wright
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| based onbased_on =
| starring = {{Plainlist|<!--- Per poster billing block --->
*[[Brigid Brannagh]]
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*[[Dimitri Diatchenko]]
*[[Kris Lemche]]
*[[Carrie Genzel]]
*[[Tatiana Dumitru]]
}}
| music = Jonathan Wandag
| cinematography =
| editing = Blake Barrie
| production companiesproduction_companies ={{Plainlist|
* Best Served Cold Productions
* Warsong Entertainment
}}
| distributor =[[Amplify (distributor)|Amplify]]
| released = {{Film date|2016|03|25|United States}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/theyre-watching-and-you-can-see-them-next-month/ |title=“THEY’RE"THEY'RE WATCHING," and you can see them next month &#124 |author=Michael Gingold |publisher=[[Fangoria]] |date= |accessdate=2016-03-08}}</ref>
| runtime = 195 hr. 35 min.minutes<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.moviefone.com/movie/theyre-watching/20079152/main/ |title=They're Watching (2016) - Movie |publisher=[[Moviefone]] |date= |accessdate=2016-03-08}}</ref>
| country = United States, Romania
| language = English
| budget = $3,650,000
| gross =
}}
'''''They're Watching''''' is a 2016 American [[Horror film|found footage horror]] [[Comedy film|comedy]] filmmovie directed and written by [[Jay Lender]] and [[Micah Wright]]. The filmmovie starsfeatures [[Brigid Brannagh]], [[David Alpay]], [[Kris Lemche]] and [[Dimitri Diatchenko]] and was released in theaters and [[Video on demand|On Demand]] on March 25, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|author=By MrDisgusting on March 3, 2016 |url=httphttps://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3382057/theyre-watching-trailer-only-a-taste-of-the-insanity-to-follow/ |title='They're Watching' Trailer Only a Taste Of the Insanity to Follow |publisher=[[Bloody Disgusting]] |date=2016-03-03 |accessdate=2016-03-08}}</ref>
 
==Plot==
The film crew of a popular home-improvement TVtelevision showseries headsgoes to a remote village in [[Moldova]] to film a follow-up segment about an American homeowner, Becky, who's been transforming a rundown house into an artist's haven. The crew, consisting of Greg, Alex, and newcomer Sarah, meet up with their irritable producer Kate and a Moldovian businessman named Vladimir. While getting some footage of the town, Greg and Sarah sneak into a funeral and attempt to record it, only to be exposed when Kate calls them by cellphone. A police officer manages to calm the furious crowd before ordering themthe crew to leave.
 
The crew continue filming overduring the next few days, onlywhile toexperiencing repeatedlynumerous findinterruptions themselves at theand receiving end of hostility and suspicion from the locals, including an old woman who sneaks into Sarah's hotel room to chant a prayer at her. Greg and Alex later show Sarah a video of Greg and Vladimir walking into thea barn to find Kate having sex with Becky's boyfriend Goran six months ago when the house was purchased. Despite telling Kate the camera was off at the time, they planned on showing it to their boss should Kate try to fireget them dismissed from employment. Vladimir tells the crew a story about how the village had once been struck by a plague generations previously, and theythe villagers had accused a woman who lived alone outside of town of being a witch before burning her atalive. During the stake.last planned day of filming, Becky shows the crew a mural on the wall of her cellar that depicts the story. AThey're doginterrupted thatby Alex's cries of pain from outside when a dog he was playing with suddenly becomes aggressive and bites him in the arm,. onlyThey abandon filming to beget gunnedAlex's downwound byat a local butcher's shop, and resolve to finish the policenext officerday shortlybefore after.their flight leaves.
 
AfterThat Alex's wound was treated,evening the crew go to a bartavern and attempt to make peace with the locals. Everything goes well until a drunk Sarah instigates a fight by shouting "witch" in the local language. The next day, they rush to finish filming at Becky's home so they can leave Moldova as soon as possible. However, they discover their car has been vandalized and rendered unusable, forcing them to spend the night with Becky and to wait for Goran to arrive the next morning. Vladimir offers to walk to town and bring back a taxitaxicab. Kate blames Sarah for the vehicle's destruction due her actions the previous night, causing Sarah to reveal that the affair was recorded.
 
A few hours later, Becky and Sarah discover Vladimir's dead body crucified onto an outdoor furnace,. andSo the crew barricade themselves inside the house. Later that night, Greg tells Sarah his story about his time in Afghanistan (something he was uncomfortable to talk about earlier in the filmmovie). While filming at an all-girl school, Taliban local police entered the school and executed a child while forcing Greg to film it. As Greg breaks down in tears, Sarah comforts him and the two then have sex. Later they wake upawaken to find Kate gone. The remaining survivors hear a noise and go out to investigate,. only toThey find Kate nailed to thea roofwall of the barn with her intestines hanging out. Sarah spots Becky'ssees Goran's car in the barn and realizes Becky has been lying about Goran being outgone. She and Alex later findlearn outthat Becky knew of Goran's affair with Kate when they spottedsaw her in the video, watching them through the window. They believe Becky killed them as an act of vengeance including Vladimir because he witnessed the encounter, and realize Greg could be next because he recorded it. Before they could warn him, the villagers begin breaking into the house, forcing everyone to flee into the basement. There, Sarah uncovers a mural that depicts the production crew's entire stay in Moldova,. This including their deaths, as well as a demonic Becky surrounded by fire.
 
Becky reveals herself as a real witch (implied to be the same witch as infor Vladimir's story), who brought the crew to Moldova to witness her vengeance on the villagers,. and sheShe drinks from a large vat of blood that has the decomposed body of her boyfriend floating in it. She disintegrates Greg, prompting Sarah and Alex to escape into the woods. They run into an angry mob of villagers, and. Sarah is murdered by the police officer with an axe to the head. Becky appears and uses her powers to kill brutally and bloodily kill all of the villagers while a terrified Alex records everything. After everyone is dead, Becky orders Alex to share the footage of her rampage with the world before disappearing. The filmmovie ends as a blood-soaked and traumatized Alex wonders how he will explain everything to his boss.
 
==Cast==
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*[[Carrie Genzel]] as Kate Banks
*[[Dimitri Diatchenko]] as Vladimir Filat
*[[MiaTatiana FaithDumitru]] as Sarah EllroyPavlovka Villager
*Mia Faith as Sarah Ellroy
*Bogdan "Baros" Guta as Village Brute
 
==Reception==
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the movie has an approval rating of {{RT data|score}} based on {{RT data|count}} reviews, with an average rating of {{RT data|average}}.<ref>{{Cite Rotten Tomatoes|id={{RT data|rtid|noprefix=y}}|type=m|title=They're Watching|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the movie has a [[weighted mean|weighted average]] of 39 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |title=''They're Watching'' Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/theyre-watching |access-date=November 29, 2023 |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=}}</ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.theyrewatchingmovie.com/}}
*[httphttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt3096858/ They're Watching] at [[Internet Movie Database]]
*[httphttps://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=theyrewatching.htm They're Watching] at [[Box Office Mojo]]
*[httphttps://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/theyre_watching/ They're Watching] at [[Rotten Tomatoes]]
 
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