We live here in a whole range of horror events. The story is about the Barkers family, an isolated family that follows the old habit, which may be different and strange habits. But one day the secret of their existence was threatened, as they seemed to be planning to solve that disaster. Perhaps that secret, which will be revealed, will make the members of the family headed by Frank worry, which may force two daughters, Iris and Rose, to take responsibility.
We Are What We Are doesn't waste time with cheap scares. Mickle keeps his story on a steady, slow simmer, transporting us minute by minute into the very heart of dread.
... a horror film by definition-an isolated family in rural America cloisters its teenage daughters in a religion/ritual that reaches back to their starving forefathers who turned to cannibalism to survive a harsh frontier-but a family drama at heart.
Another welcome entry in the ongoing revival of horror movies that rely on character and setting rather than shock and gore to chill audiences to the marrow.
The movie stays elegantly restrained just long enough for the true horror of what they're doing to sink in.
Observer (UK)
March 02, 2014
An ambitious (if somewhat uneven) slice of downbeat American gothic which interweaves grim melancholia with pointed satire, doomy portent and moments of gnawing revulsion.
