You’re Next turns 10: Watch it on Hulu and Epix

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The American home indie indie You’re Next turns 10 this month, and the brilliantly reduced horror film is one of the best horror films to come out since its premiere. Thankfully, you can now stream it on Hulu and Epix, in time for Halloween.

With a mix of comedy, family melodrama, and terrifying horror, You’re Next got director Adam Wingard off the beaten track to direct Godzilla vs Kong this year, and it can’t be missed.

In You’re Next, the wealthy Davison family meets in their summer home for a small family reunion. Middle son Crispin brought his new girlfriend home to meet his parents and siblings.

The house is besieged amid the introduction of significant other and the usual bickering of siblings. Cut off from civilization during the Cottage Country off-season, the Davisons must fight masked intruders who want to kill the family. But who does this and why did they choose the Davisons? How did they even know the family would be here?

The film premiered in the fan-favorite Midnight Madness genre showcase at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2o11 and received generally positive reviews from critics. However, it didn’t officially come out in the US until 2013 and has had a small cult following since then.

Extreme family melodrama

For the first half hour, You’re Next lulls you into a false sense of security with a captivating family comedy. It never completely lets you forget that you’re watching horror, but it also builds a brilliantly simple screwball chamber piece to build on.

You’re Next comedy has a clever, cynical twist. The Davison family’s passive-aggressive bickering feels just right in a familiar indie film way.

Director Adam Wingard started out as a member of the Mumblecore movement. Mumblecore is an indie sub-genre that focuses on dialogue and human relationships. Films like Humpday, Drinking Buddies, and Jeff Who Lives at Home take fairly simple, often nondescript premises, and make the films compelling and engaging by focusing on the characters in them and finding depth in their relationships and interactions.

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It’s an approach so well suited to horror that a horror sub-subgenre has emerged. Mumblegore films (get it?) Include Baghead, V / H / S, The House of the Devil, Creep, The Invitation, and indeed You’re Next.

This focus on people and dialogue gives the film a terrific vein. Nobody in the Davison family is really personable. Some of these people are downright terrible. But these are guys we’ve seen in movies before with, well, lower stakes.

It also helps boost comedy, with runs throughout the film. Elder brother Drake insists that he is the fastest runner in the family, even though he struggles to remove an arrow from his shoulder is a hilarious gesture. A Home Alone-like sequence also leads to a darkly funny slaughter with pratfalls and angry meltdowns that feel all too real and absurd at the same time.

You’re Next is an influential modern classic

You’re Next also feels like an important entry in horror canon and specifically in the Home Invasion movie. You can see echoes of You’re Next in everything from Us to Ready or Not to Hush to The Purge.

The film perfectly balances everyday domestic reality with sudden outbreaks of violence and calibrates its tone for maximum impact. It presents a nightmare scenario that feels incredibly real and immediate.

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Of course, 2011 was not entirely unprecedented and has been an integral part of horror for decades. Think of the night of the living dead, fun games, and the strangers. But You’re Next fits in perfectly with the hipster irony and distance of the 2010s and still feels completely new and original.

It also helped launch a mainstream career for Wingard. You’re Next director would become criminal under the radar The Guest in 2014, followed by Blair Witch, Death Note and the hugely successful Godzilla vs Kong just earlier this year. He will also direct a sequel to Face / Off and new adaptations of ThunderCats and Robert Kirkman’s comic hardcore. That explosion in big budget franchise film production dates back to You’re Next.

If you haven’t seen it before, it’s definitely worth checking out Hulu or Epix.