Ah the old movement sensors, such a classic. We open with a disturbing sex scene and as we get straight into violent action I realise that the movie's pulling a cold open. Didn't feel sorry for gross shower guy anyway, but the sound here is great. The music fades and wavers away as a tense drone increases in volume, and it's all quite nicely shot. The bloody message looks good (if I wrote a message on a wall in blood to someone I was going to kill, I'd spend far more time trying to get the font just right - and it would be serif).
Then we proceed into the more drawn out main characters, who consist of a couple and their son, who's bringing his girlfriend to meet them in a massive second house (urgh) in the country. Someone's obviously in the house, but they don't worry too much about it, and then a bunch of other siblings turn up. We quickly discover that they suck, in fact I don't particularly like anyone, not even the main character couple (I'm so glad I'm an only child. The worst you have to worry about when you're an only child is growing into a pretentious arse or never learning how to share - oh. Damn). Most of this movie is just one big encouragement not to procreate, or to at least keep it a little more controlled than the seemingly endless piles of young adults that are running about in this. At least they provide the interestingly masked killers plenty of red shirts. God I wish they'd hurry up though, as all these cardboard cutouts of characters do is shout at each other and then complain about it. Thankfully someone heard me, and soon they're being peppered with crossbow bolts (though if anything this makes them more noisy).
After a fair start, the movie quickly goes downhill for me, thanks to an almost comedically annoying and badly written set of characters. There are several nice shots, and the use of sound is effective throughout (I especially liked the weird 60's sci-fi movie music used occasionally), but for the rest of the movie I struggled to stay interested. The first twist is alright, though I had been suspecting those two for a while (honest) but the second twist was better, though it resulting in a sort of pointless ending. There were also a few lines worthy of a chuckle:
"Would you just die, already? This is hard enough for me!"
"We never do anything interesting."
"I don't think that's a fair criticism."
"Fuck me next to your dead mother then!"
But overall the movie ended up being fairly meh. Not bad for a slasher, though.
You're Next: 35.2