Cannes 2010: An Exclusive First Look At The Trailer For Mexican Cannibal Drama WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (SOMOS LO QUE HAY)

Todd Brown, Founder and Editor

The time has finally come where we stop talking about Mexican cannibal film Somos Lo Que Hay and show it to you instead. Jorge Michel Grau's film blew my mind when an in-progress version premiered in Guadalajara and the fully complete edit will soon debut in the Directors Fortnight program in Cannes. Find the first trailer for the film below.

A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge - how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a diet of human flesh consumed in bloody ritual ceremonies... and the victims have always been provided by the father. Now that he is gone, who will hunt? Who will lead them? How will they slake their horrific hunger? The task falls to the eldest son, Alfredo, a teenage misfit who seems far from ready to accept the challenge... But without human meat the family will die.
Shocking, bloody and deeply moving, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE is a remarkable reinvention of the horror genre - a visceral and powerfully emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible secret hunger and driven by monstrous appetites.

Around the Internet:

kidlazarus

The plot recalls The Hamiltons, but, the production value of this trailer appears to be on another level altogether. Looks to be a winner.

kujoo1

Another wow. This looks great. Damn, some really good films coming out of South America lately.

bagless_hound

Uhm... Mexico is part of North America, true story. Look it up.

Will

Is this the son of Jorge Grau of Let sleeping corpses lie fame?

Swarez

Jorge Grau was Spanish but I thought I recognized the name from somewhere.

mrhibbert

Oh wow. Nice.

Tory

I echo your wow.

Airchinapilot

This looks really good. I'm also a big fan of film trailers with nothing but music and the music here really works as well.

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