Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that You're Next is a much-hyped indie horror movie of the "home invasion" variety, but with a kind of twist. Violence is over the top and bloody, featuring many attacks and killings with various weapons including knives, axes, machetes, wire, and even a blender. There's some female toplessness, and sex is both implied and discussed (once in a rather disgusting, disturbing manner). Language isn't constant but includes more than one use of "f--k." And some social drinking is shown, as well as a character who takes a Vicodin.
Sexual
Content
A few women are shown topless, and sex is implied between various characters. One character wishes to have sex with a man "on a bed next to his dead mom."
Violence
Many characters die in many gruesome ways, with lots of blood and gore. Characters are killed with arrows, knives, axes, screwdrivers, blenders, and machetes; heads are smashed; necks are sliced with wire; heads are cut off; and there's a shooting.
Language
Language isn't constant but does include many uses of "f--k," plus "s--t," "damn," "oh my God," and more.
Social
Behavior
The movie is basically a festival of shock and gore, but it does show that women don't necessarily need to be victims in this kind of movie. They can fight back -- and indeed, be stronger than just about anyone else. Although it ultimately doesn't feel like much of a victory for the heroine, she at least gets to survive.
Consumerism
Not applicable
Drugs / Tobacco /
Alcohol
Adult characters are shown drinking casually (i.e. at dinner). A character takes some Vicodin.
