Films like We Are What We Are.

We Are What We Are (2010) reads as Heavy, measured, extreme horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Goodnight Mommy (2014) poster
1. Goodnight Mommy2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ward No. 6 (2009) poster
2. Ward No. 62009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Shelley (2016) poster
3. Shelley2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dumplings (2004) poster
4. Dumplings2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

It Follows (2015) poster
5. It Follows2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Hard Labor (2011) poster
6. Hard Labor2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bad Tales (2020) poster
7. Bad Tales2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ivy (2015) poster
8. Ivy2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (2010) poster
9. Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Witch (2015) poster
10. The Witch2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Starve Acre (2023) poster
11. Starve Acre2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Park (2016) poster
12. Park2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a heightened unreality.

These are We Are What We Are’s neighbours — where are yours?

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