MYST POST # 2: You're Next

While me and my friends were perusing Netflix for another decent horror movie we came upon this one, You're Next. You're Next is a rather small profit film that still gets its point across. This movie is not exactly a horror, at least for me, but there are some elements that could frighten people whom frighten very easily. But for me and my friends, we gladly accepted this movie to be a sick, twisted thriller movie. I would compare this movie to Thirty Minutes or Less because the plot was somewhat similar. In You're Next two family members hired some weird, masked hit men to murder their family to be the only ones to inherit their parents estate. While in Thirty Minutes or Less two masked men hired a random guy to rob a bank so they have enough money for a hit man, to kill their father, so they get the rest of HIS estate. One other movie you can compare You're Next to is The Purge, as more people are going on killing sprees with masks on. But, all in all, You're Next a rather unique movie, with many small time actors.
This movie didn't "wow" me too much with the editing. The editing was there, and it made you feel as if you were in their current position, wondering why so many people are just randomly killing your family. But something I would like to point out is their number of camera angles they used. In one particular scene that stood out to me for this is when one character jumped out of window to save herself from one of the killers, after she hits the ground thinking she is safe, a climactic rush of music makes your heart skip a beat when the killer's masked face peeks out from the window. 
This brings me to another aspect the movie does exceptionally well. Of course, horror movies and thriller movies need to have many different kinds of sounds, songs, and background music or else it wouldn't be very scary. For instance, whenever something scary is about to happen, in any scary movie, the pitch of the music is very high. But when something jumps out at you, there is so much sound that it can become overwhelming with fear, if done correctly.
One scene in particular that was done exceptionally was earlier in the film when the family agreed together that someone should run out of the door to seek help. It seemed that this plan was going to work, as the movie spent a couple minutes for planning, and it was slow motion while the actress was running out of the door. Two guys were holding the door handles, and going to open them right before she would step outside. The only problem was..... was that the hit men placed a extremely sharp wire in the neck area of the door. This ensued panic when the girl inevitably would die as she just sliced here neck. I loved the camera angles of this scene. Before the girl was getting ready to run, there were extreme close ups of her face and how she felt about this. The camera was pointed at all of the characters and they counted to three... While she was running in slow motion, all of the action was on her, watching what will happen when she runs into potential bad guy territory. Once she gets her throat cut, many high pitched violins played for around 30 seconds until she bled out. But while the girl is dying on the floor, the camera angles switches to looking up at the characters. Signifying that they are the only ones that can do anything, but in reality, they can't do anything because how can you stop someone from bleeding out of their corroded artery. Lastly, I liked the close up of the lady's cut which intensified the scene.
Overall, this movie was a great thriller, and was one of my better liked thriller/horror movies. I would persuade many of you to watch the trailer here---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHhtpW6xHg4
In the end though, I would give this movie 4/5 stars