Truly Dreadful Film

Good start, but then it gets ruined

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

We Are Still Here is a modest, but great horror film. The tale displays a knowing nod to Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (but makes sense!) and presents an effective ghost story that builds up to a satisfying gore-filled conclusion. At one level, the story is somewhat familiar, and the haunted house with a 'dark secret' and 'don't go into the basement' tropes are all present and correct, but the novel 'protective' ghost angle gives the story an original edge and, crucially, an emotional core (as evidenced by a subtle but effective final scene). Furthermore, the cinematography is crisp and not only visually establishes the remoteness of the Sacchetti's house, but captures its glacial milieu. For some, the lingering exterior scenes may slow the narrative down, but for me they added to the richness of the story and help to reflect the grief that lies at the heart of the story. In the final analysis, then, Ted Geoghegan is a talent to watch and I look forward to seeing his future work.

I have to admit this movie made the atmosphere decent enough to for a horror film but it didn't deliver.All this "tribute" films taking place in the 70s-80s trying to capture that essences that creepers us as kids, instead we get a step by step remake environment were there focus is make it as period time as possible so the audience will have their nostalgia goggles on, were they fail is that they bring many ideas to make it more intriguing and it turns out a mess, the ideas are their but they are semi placed and with a length of an hour and twenty three minutes there's no time to explain them so you have to build your own ideas on what's going on.The acting doesn't help as it feels wooden and amateur at times, the effects were mostly practical honestly that was refreshing, and that 70s feel was their but barley meaning they did the best they could to make it in that era but it's a small town covered with snow so we see mostly the house furniture.Watch it or don't watch it ,to me it just didn't work

Looks good, but the reveal is far too early.I was really enjoying the creepy start to this, but it's reveal is far too early, unfortunately. I was so impressed by part of the reveal, but so disappointed at it's timing, that I turned it off. It looked great though, and had great acting, I just lost interest.You may feel this is unfair, but I've seen enough really good horrors to know which ones I should finish.Now, I'm just filling up the space so that I publish my review. You can stop reading now.Here are some of my favourite horrors: The Orphanage, House of the Devil, Creep, Halloween.

"We Are Still Here" is a type of movie that I thought was extinct. It reminds me of Raimi's "The Evil Dead" (1980). It constantly borders on funny, serious, disgusting, over the top gore-fest, and downright terrifying, and most of the time, it works.Anne and Paul Sacchetti have just lost a son in a car accident, so they decide to move up into a small rural town to get their mind off of things. But right off the bat, something is up. They feel it, and the viewer feels it with the film's ominous opening shots leading up to a picture frame being suddenly slammed down. As the strange occurrences escalate, they invite their friends May and Jacob Lewis, who specialize in the supernatural. From there, all hell breaks loose. Literally.The film knows how to build tension from the start. There are several instances where a shot will suddenly glide away from the protagonist, putting the viewer on edge for what will happen next, since the viewer is expecting something to happen in this spot it is now facing, but, throughout the first half of the movie, big things rarely happen. Early in the film, it is established that there is some presence there. There are glimpses of silhouette figures in the background, either stationary or suddenly swiping across the screen, only rarely does the film break this tension with a jump scare. It lets the tension build and build, and when the viewer least expects it, the jump scare hits so the viewer never knows what to expect while watching the film.There is also a constant sense that the townsfolk are never to be trusted, and we never truly know what is going on with this house and the people in the town. All this mystery culminates with an absolute, balls-to-the-walls gore fest. There is a moment in the seance scene where Jacob suddenly lets out the words "Tear his skin off his bones" completely unexpectedly, and then begins to act very strange when questioned about it, almost unaware of what had just happened. I mention this specific moment because this marks a moment in the film that I began to laugh at for its absurdity and delivery, but also made me way more tense about the following moments. From here on out, it juggles these tense thriller moments with hilarious outbursts and excessive amounts of blood. I will admit the absurdity of these moments can often kill the tension, as well as the stupidity of the characters specifically in one moment when Anne is almost killed (Why were they staring out of the window for so long?). Also, the film has got a little metaphor about acceptance and moving on at the end, which is then totally ruined by its dumb ambiguous ending that doesn't really work in this scenario.Okay, so once this hell breaks loose, the script totally falls apart in some places. There is insinuation that it was the towns fault, and that they unleashed this evil from the house but there is really no motive for them to do this, and the entire story about the man who was selling corpses kind of falls apart. The old mans whole monologue to the supernatural things at the very end is weird and doesn't make much sense when thinking about what it insinuates. There are way more holes, but basically, if you really think about it, the logistics of these scenes don't make much sense. But what is confusing dialogue in retrospect serves its purpose while watching the film, which is mostly to emphasize the danger of the town and build tension, so these flaws aren't really that big of a deal.Nonetheless, the result is pretty impressive and it manages to feel very original in this age of horror films.