This movie was made as a homage to the late great Lucio Fulci (probably best known for the infamous Zombie Flesh Eaters) which may explain why it is set in 1979 and is quite slow to kick in. It may also be why the acting was so wooden, possibly on purpose.
We Are Still Here breaks no new ground but is altogether a pretty decent film, apart from the questions I had for it at the end.
A couple who have recently lost their son move into a new house in a new town which happened to be the setting for a history of corpse looting and town vigilante justice.
Voices are heard and things go bump in the night so the wife, believing that it may be her deceased son trying to contact them enlists the help of her long standing clairvoyant friend. Quite obviously though, it is not.
An evil that the town knows and fears lives there and is granted a sacrifice when it raises it's head.
There are a few quite decent jumps and some wonderful deaths along with possessions and a town wide conspiracy that comes to a climax at the end. Although not before a few people have had their heads squashed like melons and their torsos torn open.
The film did suffer slightly from sub-par acting and I couldn't help feeling that it could have gone much better with some more experienced thespians in the seats (unless this was to give it the 70's video nasty vibe, in which case well done). Also, when the premise of the film is revealed I was left with the questions: why did the nasties kill all those people then, and why they didn't just do what they did at the end in the first place.
Anyway - great gore and charred corpses ripping people apart, let's not spilt hairs.
6/10 Masks.
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