Check Out the Trailer for Jim Mickle’s ‘WE ARE WHAT WE ARE’

One film that I have been looking forward to this year is Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are. I have been so impressed with Mickle’s work since I have seen Mulberry Street and my admiration continued with Stake Land. While We Are What We Are is a remake of Jorge Michel Grau’s 2010 film, from what we have been hearing, Mickle takes a different approach. Add in the fact that some St. Louis flavor were involved in this film including underground cult director Eric Stanze and Aaron Crozier.



IGN premiered the trailer last night. The film looks pretty somber, which is what I would expect from Mickle based off of Stake Land. “Gothic Americana” is a term I used when describing Stake Land and it looks like that might even more fitting to what I can see here.

Trailer

Synopsis

In WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, a seemingly wholesome and benevolent family, the Parkers have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank (Bill Sage, BOARDWALK EMPIRE) rules his family with a rigorous fervor, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes and his daughters Iris (Ambyr Childers, THE MASTER) and Rose (Julia Garner, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR) are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. As the unrelenting downpour continues to flood their small town, the local authorities begin to uncover clues that bring them closer to the secret that the Parkers have held closely for so many years.

If you visit the website shown in the last part of the trailer, you can hear some gorgeous music from the film which includes composer Jeff Grace and Philip Mossman who was a live musician/member of LCD Soundsystem.