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You're Next

It's been a while since I have seen a decent horror film, the last great one being The Conjuring. Just last week I saw You're Next, a very interesting take of home invasion horror.

Now there have been many home invasion movies in the past, The Strangers and Panic Room. But what I found You're Next was able to do was add in some tongue and cheek humour, like Wes Craven's Scream.

The story is simple, a family comes together to celebrate the anniversary of the parents marriage. From there we get interactions between the family members up until the big fight at the dinner table and the beginning of the end for the family.

The cast is full of mostly unknowns, which is a good thing cause then no one over shadows anybody but also a little underwhelming because some of the cast are not to great in the acting category. Not so terrible that you would notice but not so great that you grow a liking to the character. The main reason I wanted to check this out, well two reasons actually.

One, Sharni Vinson. She might sound unfamiliar but if you loved the step up franchise you may recognize her from the series first 3D instalment. She has a terrific part in the movie coming into the family with a truly secret past, she was raised in the belief that the world was going to come to an end. So she learned a lot of how to survive through her father as he taught her some very handy skills on making traps and killing pray.

The other reason was the costumes of the bad guys. I am a huge fan of Furry art (anthropomorphic characters) and when I saw the bad guys in the movie wearing wolf and sheep masks, it hooked me immediately.

 What was real good in this film, similar to what conspires in Panic Room, is that the victims start to hunt the hunters eventually culminating in the victim turning into a full blown killer with no remorse.

We come to the final moment when our female heroine comes face to face with the true bad guy. He confesses he does not like killing people but sought to make sure she was not harmed. That is something that can not be avoided seeing as she didn't know and went on to killing the bad guys leading them to decide to kill her off anyways. She then goes off and kills him. He asks why? Her reply, "Why the f$#k not?"

Thus the ending, it is fantastic. The cops finally do arrive only to have something awful happen to them in the end.

The kills in the film were very creative and there was a jump scare or two that made me shoot out of my seat. And I am telling you that made me real impressed with this film.

With a smart script, nifty villains and a heroine who knows how to take out the trash You're Next really nails its title and gives its audience one of the best cheeky horror films since Scream.

4 1/2 out of 5.

You're Next

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