Often the cannibalism in these works is a sideshow detail meant to provoke, but “Stake Land” writer-director Jim Mickle put the practice at the center of his new film “We Are What We Are,” a reworking of a 2010 Mexican film of the same name. Mickle retains the film’s macabre focus on ritual and family loyalty but moves the action from Mexico City to the Hudson River Valley. In Mickle’s version, the wife and mother of the reclusive Parker family dies mysteriously, leaving the fanatical father to keep his daughters true to the family tradition. But heavy rains and suspicious neighbors suddenly threaten the cohesion, sanity, and secrets of the conflicted clan. Critical response following the film’s Sundance Film Festival premiere in January was mostly favorable,
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