It says it was on William Friedkin's list of 13 Must-See Horror Movies that he did for Entertainment Weekly, so he did say it. He included Psycho, Alien, Rosemary's Baby, Diabolique, Onibaba, Suspiria, Deep Red, La Boucher (The Butcher), Funny Games, The Lodger, The Spiral Staircase, The Exas Chainsaw Massacre and Them.
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN SAYS: ''If you'll notice, most of the films on my list are from many, many years ago. For the most part, I'm not interested in horror films that I see today. But Them is an exception. It's based on a true story, and similar to Funny Games, it's about some young people who go around a small vacation town and kidnap various visitors, take them to a house, torture them, and kill them. For the entire length of the picture, you have no idea who's doing this or why, and then the final scene kind of explains it. Those sequences of hunting, capturing, and torturing are really among the most brilliant that I've ever seen.''