The movie has a very depressing atmosphere. It's dark, gloomy, and rainy for the most part. The performances are slow, but excellent nonetheless. Rarely do I come across a horror movie with such strong performances. It's probably because it's closer to drama than to the horror genre. There is no real mystery in the movie, because if you have seen 2 horror movies in your life, you can figure it all out 20 minutes into the movie. I kept asking myself; why I kept watching it, despite the deliberate slow pace and the predictability of the story, and I figured it was because the movie relied on good acting, an extreme dramatic experience, excellent camera angles, and an atmosphere perfectly in line with the depressing story of the movie. The ending was rather abrupt and not as dramatic as it could have been. They could have injected more thrills into the movie, especially towards the end, than just Christ-like calmness (in a deranged way of course); although the movie left me with a tinge of unpleasant feeling, which is a quality that not many horror movies manage to achieve these days; and if this was the intended effect, I must say it was effective. In my opinion, the movie is worth watching once or twice, only if you don't mind the slow pace, which I'm sure some of the audience would find boring and might fall asleep before they are frightened, a feeling pretty much absent from the movie that is supposed to function as a horror movie rather than a sleeping pill for the majority.
Review of We Are What We Are
