Review of We Are Still Here (2015) by Charles B — 17 Aug 2015

Poorly paced and scripted, this sophomore effort boasts a few recognizable faces but lacks any real atmosphere or tension. The photography is cramped and banal, the performances seem like third rate impersonations of other, better ones (there's a faux-Nicholson and a Burstyn knock-off,) and the ghosts are dull, scorched, black-eyed zombie specters that jump out in the first ten minutes and then never stop leaping out to grab people's faces with their smoking fingers.

The location is a dull one and the house has no particular geography or presence. Haunted houses don't have to be shadowy mansions: think the little suburban dwelling in 'The Grudge'. It's not funny enough to be a camp pastiche and its high rating on RT mystifies me.

I can only imagine the reviews were written by the director's friends. A very inauspicious debut. Come back Ty West: all is forgiven.