Waste of time

That was an excellent one.

hyped garbage

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

We Are What We Are is a brooding slow burn with little to no jump scares and disturbing subject matter, specifically cannibalism. Believe me when I say I really wanted to love this movie. Sadly, the first two acts of this movie are a chore. I fell asleep the first time around the 20-minute mark my first watchthrough. It begins with a family tragedy and shows their subsequent grieving period. This family has a secret but it's established early on so we're just watching them do stuff. It's a way to develop the characters and set the mood, sure, but it completely failed to grip my attention. You know where the movie is going right off the bat. It shows its hand too quickly and doesn't gain any momentum until the final act.The third act is enjoyable, though. It's thrilling, tense, borderline silly at times but all in good fun. The problem is whether it's worth the wait. Like waiting in line for five hours for a roller coaster ride and you finally get on and have a good time, but was the wait really worth the few moments of enjoyment? Honestly, it's entirely up to you. The movie certainly has its perks. The acting is excellent across the board, the daughters in particular, and the cinematography is superbly crafted to give you the eerie vibe necessary to pull off this subject matter. Production value wise, We Are What We Are is quality stuff.I'd recommend it to horror buffs, specifically those who prefer a slow burn over cheap jump scares. We Are What We Are just happens to be the particular slow burn that's slow to the point that it produces more of a flicker than a flare.

Jim Mickle remakes the Mexican horror thriller very well. Its nice to see a Gothic inspired modern day horror with the market going overboard with torture and found footage movies... it does take a while to get into things but the last 45 minutes gives you a great twist you didn't see coming So the movie is based around the Parker family, a reclusive family in small town America living in Victorian values. Mother is unfortunately killed, pretty daughters Iris and Rose, young Rory and the matriarch father Frank.A storm has just started to hit the small town, whilst out getting groceries the mother ignores warnings and is consumed by the storm. Having to survive the sisters take on their mothers religious duties whilst keeping an eye on their brother.As the storm over the next few days is pouring bone fragments are making there way down stream and into the hands of Doc Burrows, meanwhile a local girl has been reported, one of many over the past few years.The police now on the trail are searching around the vast grounds of the Parkers home, one copper gets close to one of the sisters which will always be a bad idea. The family secret is about to be exposed after many years which is sending Frank into a frenzy.The ending has a twist I wasn't expecting at all and after you find that out the movie all makes sense If you want something different, a break away from Hollywood fails of horrors or sequels this is one to watch, little gore but more thriller.

All Spoilers Ahead!Pretty standard backwards cannibalistic/murderous nuclear family story. This was a little different in that rather than the family being mutant deformed creeps living in caves or off the beaten track (TCM, The Hills Have Eyes et al), this movie took aim at a more home-schooled Bible belter kind of target.There were some pretty big plot holes. For instance, the police chief was spectacularly absent. (Seriously, it took the town *doctor* to figure out there had been an inordinate number of missing people in the area?) And the question of how the family managed to perpetuate its line through several centuries was completely unexplained. (Normal genre M.O. would probably be to chain up women in the basement, have the patriarch impregnate them, then kill and eat the mother after delivering. but none of that was explained or demonstrated.) There were some scene-setting anachronisms: hair & styling were kind of all over the place; the doctor records his observations on cassette tapes, but people have cell phones; etc.But overall it was a pretty decent little film and the acting was okay. The father was actually a pretty stock-issue backwoods Bible thumper but the kids weren't bad. One thing I will give it credit for, the scene on the table at the end was good. That scene was quite reminiscent of Beatrice Dalle's Coré in Trouble Every Day -- though far less disturbing!

The only thing I got from watching this movie was I must stop going by IMDb reviewers reviews. After reading about how great this was, 7 and 8 stars it was getting, so as you can imagine I rushed out and got the DVD, I feel duped, lied to, This was awful. I've never been so bored. I expected so much and got so little. Listed as a horror? Really? There's more macabre in Bambi. The only thing good about this movie was the acting. Solid acting from Bill Sage and Michael Parks but just so slow and sluggish. Honestly, don't waste your time if your looking for a good horror, but if your having restless nights and need help sleeping, whack this on.