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SXSW Review: 'You're Next' Isn't Exactly A Next-Level Genre Triumph (But It's Still Pretty Fun)

  • By Drew Taylor
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  • March 18, 2013 2:19 PM
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When low budget horror movie "You're Next" premiered back at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, it received a rapturous response and set off a small scale buying war (Lionsgate, home to the "Hostel" and "Saw" franchises, and savior to Joss Whedon's marooned masterpiece "Cabin in the Woods," eventually won out). It played Austin's Fantastic Fest later that same month, to equally enthusiastic crowds and then…nothing. The movie is finally going to be released in August of this year, and in anticipation, the movie came back to Austin, this time for SXSW. And while it isn't quite the genre breakthrough many, at the time, were claiming it was (a prominent blogger provocatively asked if it was the next "Scream" -- it's not), it's still a fun, bloody, occasionally scary home invasion romp.
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More: Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, SXSW Film Festival, South By Southwest Film Conference and Festival (SXSW), Review, Reviews, You're Next

Sundance Review: 'S-VHS' Is An Uneven, Occasionally Thrilling Sequel To The Horror Anthology

  • By Drew Taylor
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  • January 20, 2013 10:30 AM
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Last year, the indie horror anthology "V/H/S" was released and promised to be chock full of truly in-your-face terror – these were fearless directors, given complete creative freedom, and squeezed together under a tight, blood-soaked package. Of course, the promise of "V/H/S" and the actual movie itself were quite different, and while there were certainly some gems (including entries by Ti West and Joe Swanberg that blurred the line between mumblecore and horror even further), most of them were overlong and uninvolving and (worse yet) reinforced some of the worst traits in the horror genre, including an undercurrent of ugly misogyny that was knotted through almost every section.
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More: V/H/S/2, V/H/S, Jason Eisener, Adam Wingard, Gareth Evans, Eduardo Sanchez, Simon Barrett, Sundance Film Festival, Review

'You're Next' Director Adam Wingard To Helm Actioner 'Dead Spy Running' For Warners

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • September 14, 2012 4:36 PM
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Movie development is always interesting to watch, both to see how a movie changes shape and who could or could not have taken it on at any time. "Dead Spy Running" has been kicking around Warner Bros. for a while now, with the studio picking up the project in 2008 with McG first considering the gig, after which, in 2009, "Traffic" scriber Stephan Gaghan was brought on to write and possibly direct. And while the latter didn't happen, "50/50" helmer Jonathan Levine was in talks this spring for the job, and though those conversations didn't pan out, WB has a new man ready to take it on.
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More: Adam Wingard, Dead Spy Running

On The Rise 2012: 10 Directors Who Look To Be Bright Sparks Of The Future

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • May 15, 2012 2:33 PM
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Like it or not, filmmaking is undeniably a director's medium. It wasn't always like that, of course: it was only the coming of the auteur theory in the 1950s and 1960s that popularized the idea of the director as the person responsible for all that was great and terrible about a picture. And while anyone who's worked in film knows that it's a collaborative medium, there's still no better way of seeing where the form might be going in the next few years than by looking at the directors who've been making splashes of late.
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More: Features, Benh Zeitlin, Justin Kurzel, Lucy Mulloy, Adam Wingard, Colin Trevorrow, Will Sharpe & Tom Kingsley, Alan Taylor, Dee Rees, Gareth Evans, Zal Batmanglij, On The Rise Features

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