'You're Next' and Who Is to Blame When a Movie Is Oversold

You’re Next is a strong entry in the home-invasion horror subgenre. It’s often funny, exciting and harrowing, and has some better-than-average character work supporting its familiar premise (masked thugs terrorize a well-to-do family in a remote mansion). It’s highly entertaining. So, why did I walk away disappointed? This is the question I asked myself after the film’s first SXSW screening. You’re Next made its debut at TIFF in 2011, and has since been placed on lock by the studio that bought it (Lionsgate), holding it for that perfect release window (it opens wide in August 2013). The praise from that first screening was loud and proud, and was reinforced by its second (and until now, final) screening at Fantastic Fest that same year. People seemed...
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John Gholson 15 Mar, 2013
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