HDnext-full watch You're Next Online Free Enjoy HD Streaming Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett have given themselves so many characters to kill, they start off with a few quick killings in which the victims are behaving so stupidly they're practically asking to die. Most frustrating during the film's first half is that only one among the 10 characters, Erin, has anything approaching a self-preservation instinct. While others scream or stand around dumbly, she hustles off to lock windows and gather weapons. While the mask-wearing villains have a hard time delivering the kind of novel slayings horror fans demand, Vinson musters the ferocity to compensate — the moment she meat-tenderizes an attacker's skull, the movie starts to turn fun.

In the absence of sympathetic characters, a little humor would have gone a long way here. But aside from a near-miss sex scene in a bed shared by a corpse, there's practically none on hand. Only when the reasons for the attack become clear does the movie find its feet, but "You're Next" ends on a high enough note that buzz on the way out of the theater should work in its favor.

"You're Next," a Lionsgate release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "strong bloody violence, language and some sexuality/nudity." Running time: 96 minutes.

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MPAA rating definition for R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian


Bloody violence, coarse language, nudity.” The warnings for the horror film You’re Next will probably entice as many viewers as they scare off, but they don’t really do justice to this home-invasion thriller. It’s horrifying, but it’s kind of funny too, in its terrible way: the story of a large dysfunctional family that very quickly becomes a small, non-functional one, it’s also notable for its innovative use of kitchen implements as weapons of mayhem. Is that a meat tenderizer in your hand, or are you happy to pulverize me?

You’re Next doesn’t exactly turn the genre on its ear — indeed, in many ways it’s an update of the proto-zombie invasion classic Night of the Living Dead — but it manages to reinvigorate it with a feisty heroine, some unexpected villains and a generous amount of gut-tightening terror. If that sounds like a fun night at the movies, come on in.

You might want to pack a raincoat, because You’re Next is also one of the goriest horror movies in memory. Just about everyone ends up beaten to a pulp, hacked to death or covered in blood, right from the very first scene when the threat of the title is found written in blood on a window. The man who discovers it — a guy who probably deserves his fate, insofar as he is a professor sleeping with one of his students — is shortly macheted right out of the picture.

We then go to the isolated country home of Aubrey (Barbara Crampton) and Paul (Rob Moran), who are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary. She’s a nervous wreck — Crampton is the scream queen of such classics as Re-Animator and Chopping Mall — and he’s a retired defence contractor, so the scares and slaughter to come are both extra-terrifying and extra-justified.