YOU’RE NEXT (2011)
This one is about a
family (having a reunion at the family house) that is attacked by strangers
wearing animal masks which kind of adds to the creepiness. As you can probably
tell I don’t watch a ton of fairly new horror flicks. In my head this was just
another throw away movie that was better off left in the “maybe I will watch
that someday” category. Well I finally got around to it and let me just say
this movie is pretty freakin nuts. The good news for fans of old school horror
is that this one isn’t over the top just trying to gross you out. There are
some pretty interesting and clever plot twists here that almost limit what I
can say in the review without spoiling things. Right now you can check this out
on NETFLIX or REDBOX.
About mid-way through the
movie the writers give away what is going on, but even after the movies pretty
cool ending we are still left with questions and that is part of what makes
this one so unique. So often we are given decent motives from the killer’s
point of view, but over time the reasons become so far gone that we almost
forget why so and so just can’t seem to stop chasing teen agers down. That
isn’t a problem here. This probably isn’t a movie I’d watch over and over
again, but for horror fans this is probably one of those you would put in the
must see category.
Sharni Vinson is the main actress in this one and does just about as great a job as Jennifer Lawrence does in HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET. Oddly the roll didn’t win her any huge productions but you can still catch her in a few relatively unknown films here and there (BAIT & PATRICK to name a couple). Nicholas Tucci also delivers a strong performance but much like Sharni, we haven’t seen him in anything well known since this movie came out either.
This is a great flick for your Halloween marathon and as such I give this film a 5 out of 7.
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