Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

31 Days of Spookoween: DAY EIGHTFilm #8: We Are Still Here (2015)Review: "We Are Still Here" is one of those modern indie horror flicks that seem to be helping resurrect the genre. It is jam packed with obvious flaws and occasionally falls into the easy entrapment of cliché, but it makes up for these problems by packing a real punch in its climax and by retaining a sense of mystery and intrigue throughout. The atmosphere and silence of the film is golden, some sequences are brilliantly minimalist, and the cinematography is absolutely stunning! The special effects range in quality, but most of the gore towards the end is really fun and is pulled off very well, while the more tragic and horrific side of the film is never overshadowed by the possible silliness these effects could infiltrate into the film. The performances are mostly sort of mediocre, while some of them are quite good and others are pretty bad, but it doesn't harm the film all too much. Parts of it are so slow it becomes boring, but by the end I was grateful for this because it makes the wild finale all the more exciting! The concept, at first, feels very cliché, but as the film continues and plenty more twists and turns are established, it becomes a rather clever melding of various genre tropes that successfully come together to create a haunting and creepy premise in its own right. While not a very scary movie overall, there are certainly moments of tensity, which lead towards a final feeling of "true" horror. It's not really a masterpiece, but it is clear that the filmmakers behind this one have the potential to make a masterpiece sometime in the near future.

RELEASED IN 2015 and directed/written by Ted Geoghegan, "We Are Still Here" is about an aging couple (Andrew Sensenig & Barbara Crampton) who move to the quiet New York countryside after the death of their college-age son. Unfortunately, their fixer-upper is haunted by malevolent ghosts. Monte Markham & Connie Neer play their weird neighbors, the latter secretly warning them to GET OUT. Lisa Marie plays a medium friend of the couple and Larry Fessenden her stoner husband. Older haunted house movies turned me off to the genre, like the lame "House on Haunted Hill" (1959) and the better-but-dull "The Legend of Hell House" (1973); even 1999's "The Haunting" was relatively uninteresting (except the quality cast). The effective remake of "The Amityville Horror" (2005) changed my mind, along with films like "The Grudge 2" (2006). "We Are Still Here" is another quality movie in the genre. The film wisely takes its time to set up the mysterious ambiance, the protagonists and their situation while slowly building up suspense before all hell literally breaks loose. The possession sequence is particularly well done. THE MOVIE RUNS 84 minutes and was shot Palmyra & Shortsville, New York. ADDITIONAL CAST: Michael Patrick Nicholson & Kelsea Dakota play the college couple who visit the house and Marvin Patterson appears as the electrician.GRADE: B+

I F*** hated it, it was terrible and not in a good way. I started to see it and first 10-15 minutes and I thought OK it's somewhat boring but let's give it a chance, it has many good reviews and everything, so I gave it a shot and turned out to be a complete disaster.let's begin with the history which was none(I mean there's no explanation, although some other movies pull it off quite well )and the development of the same(poor) and justification for the action of some characters. Also ..what's up with the acting? gosh they were so bad.There are people who say it's a good 70s/80s kind of film but NO way I've seen quite a few(many) films from that time and they were great. So... I feel I lost my time watching this..

We Are Still Here (2015, ***) is a newish horror movie set in the 1970s. What's more, it maintains the look and feel of a movie released in that time frame, from the easy stuff like hairstyles and clothing to more abstract concepts like mannerisms and dialogue. It's a heck of a lot better than many of the cheesy horror movies released in that decade, too.It's about an older couple (Barbara Crampton and Andrew Sensenig) who move to an isolated farmhouse in order to cope with the loss of their grown son, who died in a car wreck about a month earlier. Getting away to get away, in other words. Anne and Paul busy themselves fixing up the old place, but it's not long before Anne's getting the willies – you know, weird sounds in the night, things moving that shouldn't be able to move even a littler. Paul, ever the pragmatist, insists there's a logical explanation, but he consents to having hippie-New Age friends of theirs, May and Jacob (Lisa Marie and Larry Fessenden) come up for a few days. You know, to calm things down. Of course, May and Jacob are into spiritual matters, and May instantly feels a presence. Is it the dead son of Paul and Anne? Meanwhile, May and Jacob's own son Harry is also coming up for a visit with his girlfriend Daniella.True to its bloodline (ha), We Are Still Here does have plenty of blood, but it's the terrifying kind, not the Friday the 13th kind. That is, you genuinely feel like you're in this farmhouse with these normal folks, trying to communicate with the dead. The dead, it seems, bring dread. And death, which is sort of their thing. There are plenty of frights and good twists, with quick pacing and some visceral visuals. Huge praise is also due to Monte Markham, who plays a neighbor who knows more than he's letting on. Probably.