WE ARE STILL HERE

WE ARE STILL HERE

WE ARE STILL HERE: B

Suspenseful, eerie, creepy and unsettling, if I dare say frightening. A story who made the most of simple scares, tension and the unknown. The cinematography, camera angles and overall choices concerning visuals and shots was quite impressive. Award winning impressive. It added to the overall uneasiness of the film's atmosphere.

My only criticism and it's not severe, was the film tried to hard to be two polar opposites at once. There are some ideas that are in absolute juxtaposition of one another. Ideas like two negative charges or two positive charges. When you try and put them together they repel off each other. I feel that happened in this film.

At points it seemed the film wanted to head into and leave its audience with an ambiguous ending. At other times it seemed the film wanted to be very open as to what was going on with a grand reveal. The audience was sort of left with both at the end and I feel that had a choice been made to go one way or the other, it would have made for a stronger ending.

Too much was revealed to satisfy an ambiguous hunger and not enough was revealed to satisfy the what happened and why it happened starvation. We were given samples of each, perhaps one more than the other.

The acting in this film was also good. No academies or Oscars will be sought after, but Monte Markham gave the best performance over all. Between his iconic voice and eccentric mannerisms, I felt a genuine fear of the man.

I've seen better horror films, but I've also seen a lot worse. Comparatively speaking to the horror genre as a whole, nothing too special. Comparing to horror films in the last 7 years, it is one of the better.