The opening scene of the movie sets the tone and a fairly high quality bar for the movie. While the original was a solid film in its own right, the remake improves many aspects of the original, and we found it to be a superior effort in many ways.

We Are What We Are is a remake of the 2010 Mexican Horror film of the same name. Nastiness and uncomfortable dinner scenes ensue. With a dead mother, a shaky and creepy dad, a nosy neighbor, and the town Doctor and Police asking too many questions, the daughters of the Parker Family take up their womanly duties and do their best to uphold a family tradition that really shows just how messed up their family is. When the same torrential rainstorm that threw their ailing mother in a ditch starts washing old human bones downstream, the local Doctor (and Coroner?) starts to question just what is up with the clan, and if they had anything to do with the recent disappearance of his daughter. The Parker clan lives a simple life in the Catskills, serving God and doing their best to avoid notice. After their mother dies in a tragic slip and fall, the young girls of the Parker Family are not only left to take care of their distraught father and oblivious younger brother, but to tend to the family traditions, most of which involved butchering young girls and eating them, because, God says so.

We are what we are 2010 review