Simon Barrett is certainly a rising voice in horror filmmaking. Starting with 2013’s
You’re Next, Barrett has been making a name for himself as a go-to guy when it comes to writing scripts for new spins on old tropes. He’s done it with home invasion in
You’re Next, psychological thrillers in
The Guest, and helped do something interesting with found footage and anthologies with the
V/H/S/ films alongside his frequent collaborators Adam Wingard and the Radio Silence posse.
Unlike those collaborators, Barrett had yet to step behind the camera to take the director’s chair. That changes with