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2015 · horror

We Are Still Here

Directed by Ted Geoghegan1h 23m2015
ElsewhereIMDb5.720kRT95%Metacritic65TMDB5.6524
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.

Our read · We Are Still Here (2015) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want smart New England grief horror with a vicious final act.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 20attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorejump scaresbody horrorchild perilsuicide theme

Skip it tonightYou cannot stomach jump scares, gore, or parental loss themes tonight.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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