It’s none too often a horror title finds itself screening at Cannes — blame lack of quality, blame some sort of institutional snobbery, or blame both — so there’s a larger-than-usual amount of attention to give We Are What We Are, a remake of the Jorge Michel Grau-directed feature from 2010 that managed to screen in the Directors’ Fornight series this past May (following a Sundance premiere) and, no less, earn generally positive notices during its festival run (including our own). Well, cannibal movie, you have my attention.
Such hubbub may have colored my perception, as watching the preview does inspire a genuine amount of curiosity as to the final result. We can thank director Jim Mickle‘s well-composed, impressively lit images or the use of a Michael Parks performance — the latter a bonus that’s all the better for not coming around with such frequency — but the Texas Chainsaw-esque story of a backwoods cannibal family, handled with proper degrees of austerity, has the chance of yielding a unique power by virtue of its own infrequent application. All things considered, this early promise of We Are What We Are is hard to fully deny.
Have a look for yourself, along with the poster (via IGN):
We Are What We Are will open in limited release on September 27, courtesy of eOne.
What are some first impressions of the title, based on all that’s present?