In the same way George A. Romero used zombies as a flesh-eating statement on US consumerism, so Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are takes a sharpened knife to fillet class issues in Mexican society with unsparing satire. And, as you can see from the clip below, more than a little "AAARRGGHHH!"
We're not saying it's Night Of The Living Dead, but as Empire's reviewer points out, it is "macabre, biting and grimly funny". And it's tough stuff. If you're feeling fragile this frosty morning, dust yourself down, make yourself a cuppa and gird your loins for a roadside abduction that, like Let Me In's, is ham-fistedly horrible yet undeniably jarring.
Members of a cannibal clan, the two abducters are out hunting for prey because the family's patriach - and bread-winner - has died suddenly. And by the looks of things, they're not brilliantly good at it. We're putting a fiver on them being in Mexico City's equivalent of Sun Hill by breakfast.
Part art-house horror, part social-realist drama, We Are What We Are is out on Friday, November 12.