The Mexican Cannibals Are Coming.

[The trailer is now in hand and loaded in to the ScreenAnarchy video system. We'll be taking it live at noon EST Friday.]

I've been writing about Mexican cannibal film We Are What We Are (Somos Lo Que Hay) since I first saw it in Guadalajara and with the picture about to premiere in Cannes as part of the Directors Fortnight lineup, I'm not about to stop any time soon.

I said at the time that the film was my favorite of the year so far, an opinion that I still hold to today. Though the tone and look are quite different, We Are What We Are draws comparisons to Let The Right One In for the way it balances realistic character drama with the genre elements - i.e. don't expect a splatter fest right off the top, because there isn't one - to become a slow burner that really sticks with you for days after the fact.  Here's how sales agents The Wild Bunch describe it:

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.

Well, ever since seeing the film I've been aching for the chance to actually show it to you rather than just telling you about it and that chance is coming. Keep an eye on ScreenAnarchy, kids, because I've just had word that the trailer is on its way (as in literally on its way) and we will have the premiere of it for you shortly.