Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Bereamic Awesome Movie

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Kittycat63 I watched this the other day, on Amazon Prime, with totally 'fresh' eyes - i.e. I'd never heard of it (or the original Spanish version) before and I didn't know who most of the actors were (except for Kelly McGillis). I was torn between watching this and, ironically, another film with Kelly McGillis in (The Innkeepers), but I didn't even know initially that she was in this movie too so when I first saw her in it I found it very coincidental!Anyway, I'm very glad I watched this movie. Anyone expecting a nonstop, moronic gorefest though should look elsewhere. That's NOT what I was looking for and was looking to watch something a bit more challenging, interesting and less 'lowest common denominator'.We Are What We are is a slow burner of a movie but from the get go I found it captivating, mainly thanks to the 'moody' setting, the rainy ambiance, the dark colours, etc. It's a beautifully shot movie and the actors were all very good, and I especially liked the performance of the doctor whose daughter went missing and who gradually puts two and two together to realize what became of her. The actor who played the father was also great. There are some gory moments in the movie but few enough that even fairly squeamish people should be able to watch the movie without feeling the need to flee! Having said that, my sister - who HATES scary and horror movies - would probably refuse to watch it! As the movie progressed the beginning made more sense - i.e. why the mother died the way she did and why she did what she did after leaving the store (re the flyer!).The only thing about this movie that disappointed me was the bizarre, schizophrenic, unexplained ending. It was way too far fetched and the total turnaround of the younger daughter (not so much the older daughter who is a lot more 'knowing' and calculated) from how she was shown throughout the rest of the movie was totally illogical. It just made no sense, unless she was supposed to be even more 'addled' than the older sister. Overall I really enjoyed this movie and am glad I happened to come across it quite randomly. I can definitely recommend.P.S. Some of the reviews for We Are What We are are SOOOOO detailed they're really not fair. To pretty much give away what an entire movie is about is so wrong - people need to review movies clearly and fairly without resorting to giving everything away. Personally, I think IMDb should refuse to publish such spoiler laden reviews.

rdoyle29 The matriarch of the Parker family dies suddenly right before an important family ritual. It falls on eldest daughter Iris (Ambyr Childers) to take her mother's place and complete the ritual. Heavy rains and flooding have revealed evidence that leads to Doc Barrow (Michael Parks) investigating the Parkers and their connection to a host of missing people. This one's a really slow meditation on religion and familial authority that has an explosively gory climax. Kelly McGillis and Larry Fessenden turn up in supporting roles.

thelastblogontheleft This was an interesting one for me since I think it did a great job at walking that line between a dark thriller and an actual horror film. It relies much more heavily on a general sense of dread and a more relatable feeling of claustrophobia that results from being trapped in an overbearingly traditional family. This is an American remake of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name (also known as Somos Lo Que Hay), which was directed by Jorge Michel Grau. I went into this movie not realizing it was a remake and while I do wish I had seen the original version first, I'll definitely watch that at some point as well because I'd love to compare the two!After the sudden and mysterious death of their mother (which we witnessed in the opening act — it really set the tone for the remainder of the movie), daughters Rose (Julia Garner) and Iris (Ambyr Childers) are left to carry on with their domineering father, Frank (Bill Sage), and their naïvely innocent younger brother, Rory (Jack Gore). We quickly learn that, in the absence of the matriarch of the family, the eldest daughter must take the lead for an archaic tradition they are about to take part in… one that involves the consumption of human flesh. We learn, by way of one of the daughters reading an old diary, that these traditions have been passed down for generations in their family, stemming from a time when it was necessary to do anything to survive the harsh winters. The family, previously content to live solitarily, are now thrust into a spotlight of sorts, both from the expected grief over their wife and mother's passing, and from the local doctor, Doc Barrow (Michael Parks), pairing up with a deputy sheriff (Wyatt Russell) after he finds evidence of Kuru during the mother's autopsy and bone fragments thanks to a days-long rain storm. Everything comes to a head with a fairly shocking ending as people are forced to get desperate.** SPOILERS! **Firstly, I think it's used so often in horror movies, but in this particular one I LOVED the atmosphere that the non-stop rain added, I think in great part because it actually tied into the story in a significant way and wasn't just a random weather occurrence added in to make things more spooky. The heavy rain resulting in some upheaval of trees and land is what caused Doc Barrow to find the bone fragments to begin with, which aided in his further investigating the family… it was a clever plot point that not only helped in a key part of the story but also definitely did add to the brooding atmosphere.I, naturally, loved the brief sighting of Nick Damici (who was so awesome in Late Phases the following year, and who also co-wrote this film with director Jim Mickle) — he plays a sheriff and you only see him for a short bit but YAY NICK! On the flip side there is also a brief appearance by Larry Fessenden and I just have yet to understand his appeal or why he's in every damn movie ever.It did a great job at addressing issues surrounding both religion and deeply-rooted tradition, and the effects both can have on childhood and development — we see these daughters wanting desperately to be like other kids their age, but told that "this is how things have always been done" and asked to take on responsibilities that should not only be beyond their capabilities as teenagers but beyond their capabilities as human beings. We see the conflicting desires to please your parents and to do what's expected of you in a stoic and noble way but also wanting to appease the part of you that may want to rebel, or even just the part of you that wants to remain young and innocent.I think this concept is really shown when it comes to the budding romance between Iris and Deputy Anders. He has obviously had a crush on her for a long while but she seems like she's unsure what to even do with such information — almost like she doesn't believe it. When they finally have a chance to be alone, she goes into overdrive… like she's either so unfamiliar with how romances typically go, or she's so desperate for a chance to escape her life in any way possible, and they wind up having sex within mere minutes of being alone in the woods. Her father finding them and brutally killing Anders — probably the most shocking scene in the movie, and intensely well done — is really a perfect physical representation of the hold he has over her, the control he has over how she lives (or doesn't live) her life.The scene where the father is angrily chopping trees with an axe and he starts to notice bones in the felled tree is pretty intense. Again, him almost adrift in the swiftly moving stream as he tries and fails to scoop up all of the evidence of their past "traditions" is a great representation of him just trying desperately to keep things "the way they always have been" but everything is slipping out of his grasp.I thought the ending was kind of great in an odd, cyclical way… the traditions of yore coming full circle to completely envelop the father in ways he never imagined.Ultimately, I loved that this movie was so much less about the traditionally scary and gory aspects, though they did exist. You become invested in it for the character development, the atmosphere, the crime-solving aspect of Doc Barrow investigating, the perfectly ominous music, the lush cinematography, and then you're like… oh, right, they also eat people. COOL.

mr-roboto-kilroy Let me first start off with telling you that I loved this movie up until the last 10 minutes. It was slow moving, but not boring. The cinematography was excellent, acting was superb, there was suspense, there was a feeling of creepiness and the plot was very interesting. The problem is with the very end. It didn't follow through with the believable line of thinking that it had been up until that point. These people believed that they had to eat human flesh in order to stay alive and that regular food was poison to them. They had always eaten their human meat cooked like we would beef, pork or chicken, but at the last five minutes the two girls suddenly started to eat their father alive. That would be like me, after eating cooked meat all my life, suddenly just biting into a cow while it was still alive. The children were not crazy. They were just taught from birth that they needed human flesh to live. So why at the very end, did the writer decide that they out of the blue liked raw meat. Sure they wanted to kill their father and were biting out his jugular and wrist veins, but they weren't spitting it out. They just kept eating him. Didn't make sense to me. Too bad, because it was doing so well. Unbelievable ending. It's like a train speeding rapidly down the tracks and for some random reason, jumps the tracks and crashes.