Review of You're Next (2013) by Marissa K — 18 Mar 2014

I'm not a fan of the horror genre. To give you a reference as to where I'm coming from, I'd say my favorite horror films are the Scream franchise. I like my horror with at least as much wit as gore.

That's not to say that You're Next isn't gory, because it is; I mean, it's certainly not something I would have been allowed to watch at, say my fifth grade slumber party. That being said, I'm sure there are true fans of the horror genre that wouldn't necessarily have loved this movie the way that I did.

To say much more is to give things away, but this one kind of got a bit swept under the rug during its release due to another masked fauxrror movie The Purge. While that movie was greenlit for a sequel, this one struggled to stay in the box office.

I just felt like I really quite enjoyed this movie and not enough people had taken the opportunity to see it. If there was any curiosity over this one when you saw the trailer, and you're capable of stomaching some gore, I'd say definitely give this one a watch.