Barbara Crampton and Andrew Sensenig star as a couple who
are still reeling from the death of their son.
They move to a house in the country and almost immediately, Barbara thinks
her dead son is trying to communicate with her.
She invites her hippie friends (Lisa Marie and Larry Fessenden) over to
hold a séance in the house to make contact with him. Instead of reaching
their son, they find a malevolent spirit that awakens every thirty years to
devour the occupants of the house.
We are Still Here is a frustrating and slow moving film. It’s almost as if it’s taking delight in
foiling the audience’s expectations and testing their patience. It takes so much time gathering steam that I found
myself nodding off halfway through. It
would be one thing if I had it on in the middle of the night, but I was watching
it in the afternoon.
While the film takes an awfully long time to get itself in
gear, the final act certainly has its moments.
I dug the séance scene and the crispy, burnt-up ghost with white eyes
that lives in the house is pretty cool. The
scenes of the house “eating” people are juicy, as are the assorted head-crushing,
eye-poking, and throat-gouging effects.
It’s just a shame that it takes its sweet time getting to the good
stuff.
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