Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
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.
We Are Still Here is a lean, effective supernatural horror that earns genuine respect among genre enthusiasts. Its ending delivers a memorably unhinged, gory climax that sets it apart from most slow-burn haunted house fare — the violent payoff is genuinely surprising and well-executed. The cinematography captures the bleak, snow-covered New England atmosphere with real conviction. Plot and acting are competent and serve the genre well without being exceptional — the grieving-parents premise is familiar, and the performances, while earnest, don't transcend the material. Novelty is moderate: it lovingly channels 1970s Italian horror aesthetics (Fulci especially) with enough specificity and commitment to feel distinctive rather than merely derivative, though it doesn't fully transcend its influences.