Review of You're Next (2013) by Filipeneto — 22 Jul 2018

When this movie came out, horror films about house breaking were in vogue, so its not difficult to find great similarities between this film and others from that period such as "The Last House on the Left" or "The Strangers".

The formula works out. The problem is the film takes time to get interesting, presenting us characters that we never care about and who will soon be slaughtered before our eyes like pigs in late Fall.

The proof of our disinterest is that we soon forget who is married to or is dating what person there. In fact, this is totally ancillary. The strong point of the film is the way one of the characters, Erin (Sharni Vinson), reacts to the threat, quickly revealing the central character in an excellent twist.

This is something so positive that we have come to ignore the poor explanation given for this reaction, with that ragged story of survival training. The actress did a good job, standing out from the rest of her peers, who mostly make poor performances, but within what we could expect.

Thus, the film goes from an uninteresting horror to a movie that we can see with pleasure, even if it only surprises us once.