Two years ago home invasion horror You're Next received a rapturous reception at genre film festivals, yet it got stuck on a shelf. But this week, the tale of a family reunion going horribly and violently wrong finally hits screens. To celebrate the release of the film, we're travelling back in time with director Adam Wingard, screenwriter Simon Barrett and star Sharni Vincent to tell the story behind this soon-to-be cult classic.
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Simon Barrett: We had a film that we did together called A Horrible Way to Die, and because it had some genre elements it played at some genre film festivals. But it wasn't really a genre film. But we got to see all these new genre movies coming out, and to see what people were responding to and not responding to in them. It felt like there were a lot of home invasion movies coming out, but that they were all doing the same thing that they'd always been doing. I think Colin Geddes of the Toronto Film Festival called them 'Movies in which someone is tied to a chair. Adam wanted to do a home invasion film, and I've really loved those films too, but it was kind of like 'How do you do that when no one is tied to a chair? Or tortured? Or threatened? Where nobody is sexually assaulted?' All of these films were hitting those points. That was the key to coming up with this story.
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