After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.
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As the title indicates, you're in for a creepy treat! Bloody hell, this was scary! The scares start off subtle yet highly effective. It gave me gooseflesh more often than not! The very natural acting from a veteran cast ensures credibility. The music was effective, as well, and the visuals were utterly stunning. The scares are so effective without the help of overbearing music. In fact, at times there are no music at all and it was terrifying! 'We are still here' will no doubt go down as a classic!
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.
Now does this movie have flaws? What movie does not have any flaws? Some care about those more, some care about them less. Some are more apparent, some are almost invisible (like ghosts). Which brings us to this movie, that has some over the top dialog and some over the top things happening, but all are meant to be this way.That doesn't mean you have to like the movie, but it also doesn't mean you have to hate it for that. I actually thought a lot of things were funny. Especially when the movie gets self aware and has fun almost kind of spoofing itself. That's a fine line of course and not everyone will be loving this. I thought this is well executed and while not the best horror movie of 2015, still a very enjoyable one
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.