October 23, 2013

You're Next (2011)


3/5

You're Next is a fairly standard slasher movie with a somewhat clever premise. A dysfunctional family plans a reunion in an isolated vacation home in the woods when a group of psychotic murderers start picking them off one by one. But the family soon realizes that it wasn't a random act of violence; they were being watched and tracked for days. The "clever premise" is the twist at the end, the explanation of what's happening, but that's about the only novel part of the movie. The rest is predictable and expected gory filmmaking with a badass heroine. All in all, a decent flick if you're a fan of the horror genre, but nothing that will sway horror-haters.

IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853739/