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We Are the Flesh

Released Jan 13, 2017 1h 19m Horror Fantasy Drama List
74% Tomatometer 46 Reviews 29% Audience Score 250+ Ratings
After wandering a ruined city for years, two siblings enter a building and find a man who makes them a dangerous offer. Read More Read Less
We Are the Flesh

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Visually striking and aggressively confrontational, We are the Flesh may prove as difficult to watch as it ultimately is to forget.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas The Blue Lenses While a difficult film to claim as 'beautiful' in the sense of classical prettiness, there is ... a dizzying exquisiteness to Minter's craft. Aug 25, 2018 Full Review David Ehrlich indieWire For every moment of sick visceral genius (e.g. whenever Hernandez or Evoli are left to their own devices), there's another of clumsy metaphor (e.g. the limp punchline of the movie's final minutes). Rated: C Jan 20, 2017 Full Review John DeFore Hollywood Reporter Viewers expecting a garden-variety horror flick will likely recoil, but those seeking new voices in Mexican cinema may well hail Minter's effort. Jan 19, 2017 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Profoundly allegorical yet not far removed from a psychedelic journey. Rated: 3.5/4.0 Sep 26, 2020 Full Review Beth Accomando KPBS.org A brutal, intense story with a riveting performance by Noe Hernandez... Oct 10, 2019 Full Review Joey Keogh Wicked Horror There's nothing realistic about these scenes, nothing new or potentially boundary-pushing. Rated: 2/10 Oct 8, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jerry F Noe Fernandez's performance was excellent, but this must me one of the most disturbing movies I've ever watched. Definitely not for the meek. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Let's just take out the incest, necrophilia, nudity and cannibalism, what's left is about 30 minutes of confusing mess disguised as art. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Late R This is one big visual and auditory assault that manages to make you feel very uncomfortable in an impressively visceral fashion (some of it is truly vile and sickening), pushing boundaries whenever possible – it really feels like a descent into darkness, depravity and madness. Is there an explanation, a reason to all that we see happening? That's the most interesting thing about the film: you can interpret it how you like and I have my theories, but one thing's for sure, there's no obvious answer. ‘We Are The Flesh' does what it set out to do and it does it with little restraint. Having said all that, I honestly can't actually tell you whether I enjoyed the process of watching or not – I can't imagine ever wanting to watch it again, so I guess that says something. It's as intriguing as it is repulsive, and it's definitely going to put a lot of people well and truly off, but it's also going to stick in people's minds and have them talking, even if only to say "wtf". Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/30/21 Full Review Audience Member okayyyy. like i've said before about other films, i don't think this is all that extreme as other people claim. my initial reaction is wtf - where's the backstory. we're just to assume that we know why these people are confined to this run-down seemingly post-apocolyptic building. what happened? how did they get there? however, now knowing the ending i can move past the non-existent backstory. although in the same train of thought, you're led to believe the couple are brother & sister, when there was zero minutes of character development to convince you. besides them verbally telling you, they didn't feel like brother & sister to me - which took away the feeling i think you were supposed to get while watching the rest of the film. absolutely nothing explained the random rebirth that happened mid-movie. OR how there was all of a sudden 100 people in that cave. the only thing i did enjoy is the very very end. that's a great twist. that's a really fricken fantastic twist. BUT i have no idea what happened & my final reaction is just wtf. it's extremely unsatisfying. i probably will not forget that i watched this film by any means, but it felt like a waste. i do not recommend. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Definitely a mind fuck of a movie, which was interesting. Theres tons of nudity and sex, which is different for a horror movie. Hard to explain... likely have to watch it again as the ending just totally confused me. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Thoroughly disturbing, weird as can be. Not an enjoyable film but not a bad film. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis After wandering a ruined city for years, two siblings enter a building and find a man who makes them a dangerous offer.
Director
Emiliano Rocha Minter
Producer
Emiliano Rocha Minter, Julio Chavezmontes, Moisés Cosío
Screenwriter
Emiliano Rocha Minter
Distributor
Arrow Films
Production Co
Piano, Sedna Films, Detalle Films
Genre
Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 13, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 27, 2020
Runtime
1h 19m