You're Next

You're Next is a 2011 American slasher film directed and edited by Adam Wingard, written by Simon Barrett and starring Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn, A. J. Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton, and Rob Moran. The plot concerns an estranged family under attack by a group of masked assailants during a family reunion.

Produced on a low budget, You're Next had its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically on August 23, 2013, in the United States. The film grossed over $26 million from a $1 million production budget and has since gained a cult following.

The film opens with a couple, Talia and Erik Harson, having sex. After a shower, Erik finds the message "you're next" written on the window in Talia's blood, and her body lying dead on the ground. An attacker wearing a lamb mask kills Erik with a machete.

Erin accompanies her boyfriend, Crispian Davison, to a family dinner at their vacation home in rural Missouri. Present are Crispian's parents Aubrey and Paul, Crispian's older brother Drake and his wife Kelly, Crispian's younger brother Felix and his girlfriend Zee, and Crispian's younger sister Aimee and her boyfriend Tariq.

During dinner, a man in a tiger mask shoots crossbow bolts through the window, one of which hits and kills Tariq. The others try to contact the police, but discover that their cell phone reception has been jammed. Aimee runs outside to get help, but runs into a garrote wire, lethally slicing her throat. A distraught Aubrey retreats to her bedroom, but another intruder in a fox mask kills her with a machete before writing "you're next" in blood on the wall.

Kelly flees the house and goes to Erik's house nearby, where she finds his corpse. Lamb kills her by ramming an axe into the side of her head. Crispian leaves the house to look for help. Tiger attacks Erin but she stabs his arm, then smashes his kneecap and bludgeons him to death with a meat tenderizer.

Paul finds sleeping bags, food wrappers, and bottles of urine in the closet, indicating that the killers have been hiding out in the house for some time. He presents this evidence to Felix and Zee, proclaiming that this was a targeted attack and not a random act of violence. Fox then approaches from behind and slits his throat. Felix and Zee emotionlessly watch him die, before Felix admonishes Fox for having killed his father right in front of him; the murderers are in fact assassins hired by Felix and Zee to murder the family so the two could collect their inheritance. Meanwhile, Lamb finds Tiger's corpse and becomes enraged. He discovers a wounded Drake, but retreats after Erin stabs him in the back with a screwdriver. While setting up nail traps, Erin explains to Zee that she grew up in a survivalist compound, where she learned combat and survival skills. While they are looking for tools to use as weapons, Felix reveals to Drake that Kelly has been killed. He then stabs Drake to death with several screwdrivers.

Erin is attacked by Fox and jumps through a window to escape, injuring her leg. She hides in the woods, but is chased back to the house by Lamb. She sneaks into the house and hides behind a curtain. Lamb, climbing through the window, is injured by one of the nail traps. Erin overhears an argument between Felix, Zee, Fox, and Lamb, revealing that Lamb and Tiger were brothers. Her phone receives an alert stating that one of the emergency texts she was attempting to send to 911 has gone through. She ambushes Lamb before fatally stabbing him.