Directed by Adam Wingard, and starring Sharni Vinson, Nick Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, Larry Fessenden, Kate Lyn Sheil, Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran, “You’re Next is a chilling warning scrawled in blood on a neighbor’s wall, starts an evening of bloody mayhem for the Davison family.

A lively reunion is abruptly brought to an end when a gang of mysterious killers, disguised in animal masks, wage an all-out assault on the Davison’s secluded home. Using a series of sophisticated traps, axes, crossbows and machetes, the family are slaughtered one by one until nowhere is safe. But neither the attackers, nor their victims, have counted on Erin (Vinson); an innocent girlfriend who has the killer instinct to fight back…”

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In the film out tomorrow, “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Check it out below!

In the film it’s mentioned that your character is on medication and hasn’t been drinking. How do you picture the fragile place she’s coming out of?

I think she obviously had her first child when she was very young and got married when she was very young. And it seems like she was quite well taken care of by her husband and hasn’t had to do very much. She had four kids, I only have two and I’m tearing my hair out [laughs] so having four I can’t even imagine. She’s also at an age where she’s going through a change in her life, which has affected me as well. I think a lot of women have physical issues at this time in their lives and maybe they don’t get addressed. And I think that’s maybe what’s happening with her. So she at times is very fearful and timid and then other times she feels a little bit stronger.

I got the part 10 days before I left for Missouri so I didn’t have a lot of time to think about it, but I remembered when I was thirteen my Mother started going through these changes. Physiological stuff that affected her psychology. I can remember being in the grocery store with her and she would always have to be holding on to the shopping cart because she would feel like, if she wasn’t holding on to something, she wouldn’t be able to walk and would fall. So a lot of things I play in the character I got from watching my mother.

There’s a representation of grief in this movie that you don’t really see in a lot of horror films. What’s it like playing that when things are moving so fast onscreen?

It’s a very difficult place to go into, but to make that situation believable I felt I had to go deeply into that moment. So mentally I used one of my children, thinking about this happening to one of my children in my own life. So maybe a half hour before filming this particular scene I was putting myself in this dark place where I imagined losing this particular child. You have to be in that place for a number of minutes before the camera rolls so you can be secure in that space and it can be grabbed on camera.

The movie doesn’t go out of its way to manufacture a bunch of “you should like these people” moments for the family. I think the audience cares about the family because they’re recognizable.

I think that Simon [Barrett], in the writing of the piece, set up really specific archetypes that the audience member can relate to quite easily. It’s a family that’s dysfunctional and we can all recognize ourselves in one or two characters in the movie. Also, a lot of the actors in the film have worked together before, there was a certain shorthand and camaraderie that these people had. Ti West, Joe Swanberg, Amy Seimetz, Simon and Adam. Also Nick Tucci was in a movie that Keith Calder and Jessica Wu [the producers] did called Undocumented. We are a family and we have a relationship and dynamics that work between us, and you want to see something real and immediate on camera. Rob [Moran] and I came in and we didn’t know anybody, but everyone in this movie was so real and welcoming and wanting to be in a relationship with us – on camera and off camera. Within three days we felt like part of the family. AJ was sort of the ringleader and was the glue for all of us. I’ve grown to love him like a son.

It seems like Keith Calder and Jessica Wu are fairly hands on producers. With a low-budget film like this, what kind of environment do they foster?

It’s interesting that you ask that question because not a lot of producers know a lot about what goes on in terms of making a movie but, more than anyone I’ve ever worked with, Keith and Jess know everything. They’re very smart, dynamic people. They were on set every single day. Every moment. Talking to Adam and talking to Simon and watching every scene and every shot in a very encouraging way. They were very good at working in concert with everybody else and with everything that was going on. They were a welcome part of the entire process and you don’t always feel that way about producers.

The dinner scene is sort of the heart of the movie, I can’t imagine how much went into that.

It was the longest scene to shoot, it was at least two days. Maybe three. I was told after we shot it that it was nine minutes, so that was obviously going to be too long. It is the heart of the movie, during the dinner scene the complexity and dysfunction comes out and you really get to see what everybody is made of. And by the end of the scene, we know what kind of danger the characters are in and how they deal with peril.

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Anyways, they always have super fun “Don’t Talk” PSA videos that play before each feature, and Bloody Disgusting has your exclusive look at one featuring to stars from Adam Wingard’s You’re Next, in theaters Friday.

In the below video, Scream Queen Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak) and horror icon AJ Bowen (A Horrible Way to Die, The House of the Devil, The Signal and the forthcoming The Sacrament) tell you to shut the fuck up. Do it, or You’re Next!

“When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

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Then we skipped ahead a bit to discuss The Guest, which they had just started filming in New Mexico (right now they’re a little over 30 days into it). I remain optimistic that there’s some Satanic stuff going on in that movie (even though I’m likely 100% wrong) – though Wingard and Barrett dodge my potential Bob Woodword moment with admirable dexterity.

Check it out below!

It’s been mentioned that initially Simon wanted to do something that was more of a screwball comedy and Adam wanted something more serious. How different from the final product was that first draft?

Barrett: It wasn’t, really. Ultimately it was the film. Adam and I are collaborators but we also give each other space in certain phases of the process. I tend to write in complete isolation and I don’t show Adam any pages until I have a draft I’m pretty happy with. And he tends to edit in the same way. That way he can approach my first draft with objectivity as a reader whereas I’ve gone insane for the past 6 weeks and have no idea if it’s any good or not. Then [after Adam edits alone] I can see the assembled film for the first time as a viewer. There’s a lot of good things about that and it’s obviously been very successful for us and we intend to keep doing it. But there’s also some anxiety there because I’m sitting there writing this script thinking, “oh my God, this isn’t what Adam wants but this is what my characters keep doing! What if he hates this? What if he looks at this and goes, ‘Simon! Goddammit!'” But so far, so good. I don’t think it was what he was expecting but we have a very similar sense of humor and I think he was down with it.

Wingard: Yeah, and I trust Simon’s instincts so much I kind of take them over my own, especially when it comes to story. I kind of came into this wanting to do something more technical and very scary. When Simon added the whole comedic element I never questioned it. It was the type of comedy I could relate to. It’s not an overly comedic script, there’s no jokes in it necessarily. It’s just more circumstantial so, from that perspective, I was totally onboard with it from the get-go. It still had all the creepy stuff to play with, the violence and all that.

So there’s not a window of time where you have to emotionally adjust to the script not being exactly what you’re expecting?

Wingard: Yeah, when I first read it I definitely had to. But it wasn’t ever a bad adjustment, I just go, “this is the script that Simon wrote.” I didn’t know he was going to write this female protagonist who was basically going to become the hero of the film.

Barrett: That was also way more hidden in the script.

Wingard: That made me a little nervous going into it because every time I had seen that outside the Alien series I felt like the filmmakers fell on their face. It just depends on finding a really good actress. And since I was just used to casting people I knew, I didn’t really have anybody in mind for who that might be. I knew we’d have to find somebody and that was a little scary. Luckily, Sharni – no pun intended – stepped up and became that character.

You mentioned that watching the audience respond to the more fun moments in A Horrible Way To Die was really gratifying and you wanted You’re Next to capitalize on that. Is that something that’s continuing with The Guest?

Wingard: Yeah. The Guest is again us asking, “what are we in the mood to do? Given our experience level, what’s a fascinating challenge?” You’re Next is a mainstream audience film, which was a challenge. We had to play by new rules in terms of the way we filmed it. I couldn’t just rely on experimental techniques to get me through it. The reason I did rely on those [techniques] before was because we didn’t have enough money and I had to get clever with it. So with The Guest it’s a different thing because we have more money on it. And it’s not just a horror film. With You’re Next there’s the fallback that there’s always something happening and there’s a kill scene every few minutes. With The Guest the challenge is going to be, while still having all sorts of crazy stuff happen in the movie, this thriller suspense element we’ve added to it. It’ll be a real challenge to pull off but so far it’s going well.

I’m convinced Satan plays a role in The Guest.

Wingard: Satan just plays a role in my life in general. He will always be at my side helping me and pushing his dark powers into the inner-depth of my mind. That’s just going to come through in general.

Barrett: That’s going to come through whether Adam and I are doing a film like You’re Next or The Guest, or whether we’re doing a romantic comedy or an Oscar bait war movie. All of those are hopefully on the horizon for us. You want to make all kinds of movies on all kinds of levels which means you have to be pushing your talents to new fields at all times.

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Am I guilty of this? Absolutely. I first saw the film in November of 2011 and I haven’t stopped banging the drum since. There’s a reason for this: You’re Next is my favorite horror film in years. No qualifiers needed. So while I acknowledge the perception many of you have that some “overhyping” has gone on, the truth is that this is a special movie that I (and many of my peers) felt like throwing a lot of energy into supporting simply because I know you’ll love it. You’re Next, while gory and smart, is also a “mainstream” effort in the best sense of the word – I can see it pleasing millions of people without talking down to them.

Head below for 5 Reasons You’re Next Isn’t Your Typical Home Invasion Movie!! The film hits theaters on Friday, August 23rd (and will be playing a lot of midnight shows on the 22nd)!

IT’S FUN

Most home invasion films are dour, brutal affairs where ugliness and violation reign supreme. You’re Next is certainly brutal, but one of the first things you’ll notice about the film is the active love it has for its audience, rather than the causal contempt a lot of filmmakers and studios serve up these days.

Structurally speaking, it’s a pure home invasion movie that thoroughly explores all of the options that its sub-genre provides. But tonally it feels much more like a traditional slasher in all the best ways. With over a dozen kills it easily exceeds the norm for a typical home invasion film and the creativity behind many of them definitely harkens back to a period when people were more interested in thrills than immature “hardcore” one-upmanship.

It’s also funny. While You’re Next is a pure horror film (not a horror-comedy) it does wring laughs organically out of the intensity of the situation the characters find themselves in.

THE CHARACTERS

You’re Next manages to feature an impressive cast playing nuanced characters without coming across as self-satisfied or beating you over the head about it. Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett populate the house with people you recognize from your own life. While I would like to believe there are some fundamental differences between my own family and The Davisons, this is the first horror film in ages where I see family dynamics I’ve experienced in real life successfully and tangibly replicated here.

Many films paint families in hugely broad strokes – “here’s the troubled son, here’s the spoiled daughter, here’s the aloof father.” While You’re Next certainly plays with those archetypes, it has the sense to realize that a good character has more than one defining characteristic. These just feel like real people. Not in a mumblecore way, not in a Kenneth Lonergan Margaret way (after all the film has to spend more time killing these people than exploring them) – but in just the right way for a slasher movie.

IT’S THE ORIGINAL HORROR YOU’VE BEEN ASKING FOR

Whenever we do a story about a remake or sequel on the site we invariably get the comment, “ugh. Why don’t they make something original? Is Hollywood all out of ideas?” You’re Next is one of the better answers to that. I can’t pretend it’s the only original horror film coming out this year, it’s not. But there’s an exciting energy here because of the way in which it’s positioned, “what if a GOOD horror movie actually does well?”

People love to talk about “envelope pushing” as a means to expand the reach and relevancy of the genre. The envelope You’re Next pushes is simply marked “good.” No one involved settled for something they themselves wouldn’t want to pay to see, and to me that’s where the true difference lies. That’s the reason you’ve been hearing about it for two years. It’s also the reason that, if you’re sick of all the jabbering about the film, you’ll feel completely refreshed once you actually start watching it.

LOOKING FOR THE MAGIC

I’m not just referring to the song you’ll immediately download after leaving the theater, I’m talking about the little things that make You’re Next sing in other ways. The iconic animal masks. Joe Swanberg at the dinner table. The way the score switches gears in the film’s second half to simultaneously echo Wang Chung and John Carpenter. The way Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran masterfully sell their grief on the fly. Sharni Vinson saying, “no, he’s not” when someone mentions that her boyfriend is a strong guy. There’s a thousand tiny moments that make the film special, moments that would have been vacuumed out of a typical studio project.

REPLAY VALUE

I have seen You’re Next five f*cking times. Admittedly, I attended screenings 4 and 5 so I could show the movie to people who had been begging me to see it (my cousin and a friend who I had been “overhyping” the movie to for years – both loved it) but I never grow tired of watching it. Right before I saw it again at SXSW I was actually kind of nervous and began steeling myself, “is this going to be the time when I realize the movie actually sucks?” Nope. Not only was it just as good as I remembered but it played incredibly well with an audience. Same thing goes for the Comic-Con screening I attended.

When the movie comes out on Blu-ray it will be on an easy-to-reach spot on my shelf and I anticipate revisiting it as often as I revisit my favorite horror films. Why? Because it’s one of them.

Now do me a favor and watch it on Friday.

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Since a good deal of the movie remains unspoiled by the trailers we couldn’t get too deep into surprises, but it’s a good primer for the film nonetheless.

In the film, “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

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The film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Sharni Vinson (the upcoming Patrick remake), Nick Tucci (Choose, Undocumented), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), AJ Bowen (A Horrible Way to Die, The House of the Devil, The Signal), Joe Swanberg (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S), Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die), Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Calvin Reeder (V/H/S, The Rambler), Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter), Kate Lyn Sheil (V/H/S), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak) and Rob Moran all star.

Here’s Fred Topel’s review out of TIFF 2011.

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Slashing its way into theaters August 23 from filmmaking duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S, V/H/S/2), Bloody Disgusting has two new stills featuring both Bowen and Crampton, who play two family members in peril in the slasher that reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror.

“When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Sharni Vinson (the upcoming Patrick remake), Nick Tucci (Choose, Undocumented), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), Joe Swanberg (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S), Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die), Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Calvin Reeder (V/H/S, The Rambler), Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter), Kate Lyn Sheil (V/H/S), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond) and Castle Freak) and Rob Moran also star.

Here’s Fred Topel’s review out of TIFF 2011.

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Slashing its way into theaters August 23 from filmmaking duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S, V/H/S/2), You’re Next reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Sharni Vinson (the upcoming Patrick remake), Nick Tucci (Choose, Undocumented), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), AJ Bowen (A Horrible Way to Die, The House of the Devil, The Signal), Joe Swanberg (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S), Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die), Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Calvin Reeder (V/H/S, The Rambler), Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter), Kate Lyn Sheil (V/H/S), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak) and Rob Moran all star.

Here’s Fred Topel’s review out of TIFF 2011.

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Slashing its way into theaters August 23 from filmmaking duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S, V/H/S/2), You’re Next reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Sharni Vinson (the upcoming Patrick remake), Nick Tucci (Choose, Undocumented), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), AJ Bowen (A Horrible Way to Die, The House of the Devil, The Signal), Joe Swanberg (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S), Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die), Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Calvin Reeder (V/H/S, The Rambler), Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter), Kate Lyn Sheil (V/H/S), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak) and Rob Moran all star.

Here’s Fred Topel’s review out of TIFF 2011.

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Slashing its way into theaters August 23, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Here’s Fred Topel’s review out of TIFF 2011.

Sharni Vinson (the upcoming Patrick remake), Nick Tucci (Choose, Undocumented), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), AJ Bowen (A Horrible Way to Die, The House of the Devil, The Signal), Joe Swanberg (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S), Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die), Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Calvin Reeder (V/H/S, The Rambler), Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter), Kate Lyn Sheil (V/H/S), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak) and Rob Moran all star.

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Since new reviews are beginning to hit the Web, we thought we’d point you to our previous two that are both insanely positive.

Right here is Fred Topel’s review of the Adam Wingard/Simon Barrett home invasion slasher, which was one of the first ever. We were both on hand in 2011 for the World Premiere at the TIFF’s Midnight Madness.

We also have a review out of the super secret Fantastic Fest screening that took place later that month.

In theaters August 23, “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.“

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The pic come from filmmaking duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S, V/H/S/2).

Slashing its way into theaters August 23, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Here’s Fred Topel’s review out of TIFF 2011.

Sharni Vinson (the upcoming Patrick remake), Nick Tucci (Choose, Undocumented), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), AJ Bowen (A Horrible Way to Die, The House of the Devil, The Signal), Joe Swanberg (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S), Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die), Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Calvin Reeder (V/H/S, The Rambler), Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter), Kate Lyn Sheil (V/H/S), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak) and Rob Moran all star.

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…and one of them looks vicious. Bloody has landed a brand spanking new image from Lionsgate’s You’re Next, the insane slasher from filmmaking duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S, V/H/S/2). It gives a modest homage to Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees with the machete.

Slashing its way into theaters August 23, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Here’s Fred Topel’s review out of TIFF 2011.

Sharni Vinson (the upcoming Patrick remake), Nick Tucci (Choose, Undocumented), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), AJ Bowen (A Horrible Way to Die, The House of the Devil, The Signal), Joe Swanberg (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S), Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die), Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Calvin Reeder (V/H/S, The Rambler), Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter), Kate Lyn Sheil (V/H/S), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak) and Rob Moran all star.

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Lionsgate has released the first full theatrical poster for You’re Next, the insane slasher from filmmaking duo Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S, V/H/S/2).

Slashing its way into theaters August 23, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Here’s Fred Topel’s review out of TIFF 2011.

Sharni Vinson (the upcoming Patrick remake), Nick Tucci (Choose, Undocumented), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), AJ Bowen (A Horrible Way to Die, The House of the Devil, The Signal), Joe Swanberg (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S), Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die), Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Calvin Reeder (V/H/S, The Rambler), Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter), Kate Lyn Sheil (V/H/S), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak) and Rob Moran all star.

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The UK trailer has now been released, and features the same footage as the U.S. version from one of the smartest and most terrifying slasher films in years, which reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. It’s time for a reminder anyways…

“When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Sharni Vinson, Nick Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, Larry Fessenden, Kate Lyn Sheil, Barbara Crampton, Rob Moran all star.

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After popping up at a Wedding and on a Temptation Bus Ad, another one of the film’s masked killers has popped up on a poster for Peeples in New York City, defacing yet another perfectly good Lionsgate poster.

In the slasher penned by Simon Barrett and directed by Adam Wingard, “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.“

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While the ads had previously been reported across the New York area, an eagle-eyed reader in Culver City, California confirmed that Los Angeles is also being stalked by the killers from Adam Wingard’s You’re Next! Inside we have an insanely cool bus shelter ad for Tyler Perry’s Temptation that reflects yet another “animal” from the film. It’s unclear how old the Temptation photo is as the movie came out end of March, but these ads must have been up for a while. Lionsgate would not return our calls to comment. Special thanks to Bloody reader “Justin K.” for the the image and news tip!

In the slasher penned by Simon Barrett, “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.“

The image below is the bus shelter ad for Temptation that allegedly has a killer from You’re Next “printed” on the face of it, although we can’t confirm how this effect is being achieved. Pretty cool…

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While we’re unaware of how many cities partook, Los Angeles and New York bus stops reportedly carry displays for Lionsgate’s upcoming comedy, The Big Wedding, which reflect one of the “animals” from the hotly anticipated slasher You’re Next!!

Looking at the following image, I can’t tell of there’s an actual reflection or if Lionsgate “printed” the animal on the top layer of the Big Wedding poster; either way, what you’ll see inside is pretty haunting and beyond eye-catching. Take a look and marvel at the brilliance behind Lionsgate’s marketing department. What do ya’ think?

In the slasher penned by Simon Barrett, “When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.“

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Directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, the duo best known for A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S and the forthcoming V/H/S/2, “You’re Next is one of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, one that reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively premiere one of three You’re Next teaser posters. It displays one of the film’s “animals”, as well as the tagline: “Did you remember to lock your door?” It’s an astoundingly artistic one-sheet that’s both haunting and beautiful. It’ll definitely grab people’s eyes as they’re walking through a theater lobby…

Still, the best part of the slasher is that it boasts an astounding cast that includes Sharni Vinson (the upcoming Patrick remake), Nick Tucci (Choose, Undocumented), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), AJ Bowen (A Horrible Way to Die, The House of the Devil, The Signal), Joe Swanberg (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S), Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die), Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Calvin Reeder (V/H/S, The Rambler), Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter), Kate Lyn Sheil (V/H/S), Barbara Crampton (80’s fav who starred in Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak) and Rob Moran.

For more you can become a fan on Facebook, follow Lionsgate’s on Twitter @lionsgatehorror (#YoureNext), and even check out snapshots via Instagram. Meet the other two “animals” at Collider and Shock Till You Drop. Also, the trailer is set to premiere on March 28!

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In the film directed by Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S,V/H/S/2), “One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.” Sharni Vinson, Nick Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, Larry Fessenden, Kate Lyn Sheil, Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran all star.

You’re Next hits theaters on theaters August 23, 2013. Become a fan on Facebook and head inside for the interview!

The film feels really big and has amazing sound design and pacing. What’s your approach to achieving that on a smaller budget?

It really boils down to the fact that I edit my own stuff. Whenever I’m shooting I’m thinking about the most optimum way of making the scene work and thinking of alternatives in case it doesn’t work. I’m always trying to get the best coverage I can. Whenever I edit, I like to have at least 70% of the score done beforehand so I can let that influence me.

Going into this movie I made a conscious choice that I did not want any slack on the film. We shot it with two cameras and I really wanted the whole movie to move at a fast pace and wanted to be able to cut at a fast pace. All of our influences were, for the most part, bigger budget movies. My DP and I studied a lot of stuff like Face/Off and other absurdly huge movies to see what made them feel big and a lot of it was pacing.

You’re trying to get all of this stuff on a fairly limited schedule, shooting all nights. How does that impact the process?

It’s just really stressful. Going into this I had been used to doing very experimental indie stuff and a lot of my stylistic choices were dependent on the budget itself. The reason those movies are shot the way they are is that we didn’t have time to shoot it any other way. With this film, my choices were based on how to make a film that’s successful to a wider audience which meant using some more conventional cinematic language and then figuring out how put my own twist on it. But that creates a whole other realm of problems, because now you have all of these rules. If you set out in an experimental style you can beak those rules at any minute in case you need a fix. But with a film like this you’re constantly in your head thinking, “If I don’t get this, we’re totally screwed.” It’s gotta play real.

You really feel the impact of the violence in the film, but it doesn’t overdo it on the gore. Did you shoot a lot more of that stuff than you used in case you needed it?

The funny thing is, everything you see in the film is basically every bit of violence we had. A lot of times special effects wouldn’t work, so you’re just getting a little bit here and there. But the film isn’t really about gratuity. To me it was more about making the kill scenes interesting.

I was really influenced by this 80’s serial killer film called White Of The Eye, I saw clips of it on YouTube initially and it’s Donald Cammel who did Demon Seed and stuff. But the way that they shot their kill scenes was with a lot of inserts, a lot of slow motion. Like you’ve got a vase of flowers smashing in slow motion, it focusses on a lot of things that aren’t necessarily part of the gruesomeness, you know? I just wanted to make the violence interesting, which ended up great for this film because it didn’t mean gore – it meant building stuff up in a very stylistic way. So while the movie is still really violent and gory, the emphasis is really on building the audience’s expectation of it through slow motion and all of these other things and then just hammering it home with these quick barrages of shots.

I noticed feeling a lot of that, “I can’t believe they’re about to do this.”

Totally. When [character redacted for spoilers] is [death redacted for spoilers], we wanted to set it up. The savvy horror fans already know we’re setting up a kill and we’re not going to disguise that. But at the same time we’re not going to tell you exactly what’s going to happen. We just want to build up the anticipation to make it more exciting and more fun.

Any updates you can give on The Guest and Dead Spy Running?

Yeah we’re going forward with The Guest right now, hopefully shooting in the next few months. And Dead Spy Running is moving forward pretty well too, I’ve been having a lot of actor meetings on that and Simon’s still plugging away on the script. Hopefully we’ll be able to knock them out back to back.

Your visual style is always evolving. There are huge differences between A Horrible Way To Die, You’re Next and V/H/S/2. Are there any new tricks you’re dying to try on these new ones?

It’s just contingent on the screenplay and what best brings that out and what I’m influenced by. I guess we’ll just ultimately see what things stick with me going into this next one. You never really know what it’s going to be until you actually start shooting. You can plan out a lot of stuff, but at the end of the day once the actors show up and you start shooting you’re going to find all of these new influences and points of focus. On the page, You’re Next felt like a completely different film from what we have. I actually pictured it as a different movie – I pictured it as taking place in a more modern Frank Lloyd Wright kind of house. But when you end up with what you end up with… it really pushes you in new directions and inspires you in great new ways. It’s kind of unpredictable, really.

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In the film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S,V/H/S/2), “One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Sharni Vinson, Nick Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, Larry Fessenden, Kate Lyn Sheil, Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran all star.

You’re Next hits theaters on theaters August 23, 2013. Become a fan on Facebook and head inside for the interview!

Your character is soft and light on the outside but tough on the inside, what’s the trick for capturing that and internalizing her backstory? “At the end of the day Erin is just a very happy-go-lucky girl, she’s sweet and innocent. You see that very much in the opening scene with her. She’s young and she’s having a great time. And, as for her history, it is quite the revelation that that’s how she’s been brought up. I feel that this is the first time she’s had to use those skills, and she’s surprising even herself.”

From what I understand it was a difficult shoot with a lot of nights, combining that with the physicality of your role – were there any nights that were particularly brutal? “[Laughs] I’m not normal. It’s really hard for me to answer this one from a sound mind, I love this job so much more when it combines physicality with the acting. This was the first role where I feel like I really achieved so much and a lot of that was due to the fact that the schedule was huge and we shot a lot of the movie between 7PM and 7AM six nights a week. And the one night you have off a week you have to stay up and stay on schedule to keep your body clock correct. I just revel in being awake. I’m not a big sleeper, I love to be moving. For me the hours weren’t difficult, it was something I enjoyed. I’d love to play Erin for the rest of my life.”

What’s it like working with [director] Adam Wingard? I don’t think I’ve spoken to someone about the actor side of that relationship. “It was a new experience. Totally new. This was the first independent movie that I’d done, and it worked differently than a studio movie. Adam’s style of direction was so different from anyone I’ve ever worked with. He’s in there, in the action, sweating with the camera on his shoulder. And that initial dinner table scene, there was so much coverage. He loves to get all this footage. He loved to get right in there. And with the action stuff he would tell us, “just keep going. Keep moving. If you hit me, don’t worry about it because I can’t tell you where I’m going to end up. But just keep playing the scene.” There was this moment, on the first day of filming, where he was shooting this very simple moment of Barbara Crampton washing dishes in the sink. And all he did we dolly out. And he held it for so long. Initially I wondered what he was doing, but as he kept going it got scarier and scarier and scarier. The suspense was holding. It was in that moment where I turned to Simon [Barrett; writer] and just said, “Adam Wingard is a genius.” He’s changing this generation of horror movies right now. ”

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Directed by Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the duo best known for A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S and the forthcoming S-VHS (V/H/S/2), “One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Sharni Vinson, Nick Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, Larry Fessenden, Kate Lyn Sheil, Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran all star.

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Directed by Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the duo best known for A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S and the forthcoming S-VHS (V/H/S/2), “One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Sharni Vinson, Nick Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, Larry Fessenden, Kate Lyn Sheil, Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran all star.

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Directed by Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the duo best known for A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S and the forthcoming S-VHS, “One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped…until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.”

Sharni Vinson, Nick Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, Larry Fessenden, Kate Lyn Sheil, Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran all star.

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In the film, which received rave reviews (read mine here), “A family comes under a terrifying and sadistic attack during a reunion getaway. Barricaded in their secluded country home, they have to fight off a barrage of axes, crossbows and machetes from both inside and outside the house. Unfortunately for the killers, one of the victims proves to have a talent for fighting back.”

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett also collaborated on V/H/S, which is now available On Demand, as well as A Horrible Way To Die.

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