10 Criminally Low IMDb Movie Ratings You Won’t Believe

3. You'€™re Next

IMDb Rating: 6.5

Depending on who you're asking, Adam Wingard is either one of the most promising emergent filmmakers with an eye for gleeful pastiche, or a lazy purveyor of faux-stylish clichés. Now everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but there's a distinct feeling that those in the latter camp are missing the point of it all.

You're Next, thus far the director's most high profile movie, marketed itself as a typical home invasion flick, complete with the tonally juxtaposed use of Lou Reed's Perfect Day in the trailer attempting to inflate the material. But while the opening twenty minutes of the film begins following the usual genre tropes, once the blood starts gushing it becomes apparent the whole thing is very self-aware. It's not overt, with little in the way of winks to the audience, but when an exhausted is Erin is asked where her brother-in-law is and she matter-of-factly responds "I put his head in a blender," it's clear the film is hiding some comic aspirations.

Wingard's next, The Guest suffered in a similar way, its twist on narrative expectations (after an hour of mystery build-up, it turns out why the murderous soldier has turned up at a grieving family is less important than what he does afterwards) aggravating rather than impressing audiences, leading to it only sitting two points higher than You're Next on 6.7.