HOME ALONE MEETS LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT?
What started off looking like a complete rip off
of "The Strangers" soon turned into "Last House On The
Left" which then turned into "MacGyver" meets "Home
Alone" for the horror genre.
I think where "You're Next" went wrong,
was when they revealed the killers and the plot too early. Though we do not get
the full murderous confession until near the ending, you'd have to be pretty
stupid not to figure it out, once they revealed the mastermind behind the
killings, early on.
I think it would have been much better, creepier
and more effective, if they did not reveal the big plot "twists"
until the end. I think they totally missed the mark on what could have been a
much better movie. "The Strangers" was a brilliant movie, because you
did not ever really see the killers unmasked faces until the end, and by then,
it didn't even matter what they looked like under the masks , because they were
complete strangers, that had absolutely no motive for the mass murders, except
that "they were home".
Though I loved Sharni Vinson's character Erin, it
was a little over the top and unbelievable, that this one feisty Aussie woman
was like a highly skilled ninja and a one woman A Team? I think the writers
knew her character was totally unbelievable, so they made up the " I was
raised in a survivalist compound" to try to make some sense out of it.
I think the funniest part of the movie, was the
fact that it could have easily been called "Look Who's Coming To
Dinner". I guess these scheming brothers, after their families
inheritance, did not count on one of their girlfriends being a highly trained
survivalist?
My favorite kill, was when Erin took the blender,
shoved the blender ,blade and all, into the cute brothers head, plugged it it
and turned it on. Now, that's what I call "scrambled brains"..lol
All in all, it was an enjoyable, edge of your
seat, movie but nothing new, exciting or creative.
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