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Ready or Not
Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Searchlight Pictures
Mythology Entertainment Mythology Entertainment
Radio Silence Radio Silence
TSG Entertainment TSG Entertainment
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Vinson Films
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Ready or Not

A killer game of hide and seek.

2019 96 min ★ 7.1 (5,858) Released
Comedy Horror

A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

Original title
Ready or Not
Language
EN
Country
US
Budget
$6,000,000
Revenue
$57,615,777
Reviews & Ratings 6
Vinicius Monteiro

Vinicius Monteiro

Jun 11, 2026 · via TMDB

★ 6.0

The promise of a happily-ever-after has always been the backbone of fairy tales. But the reality of marriage can hide much darker and bloodier rituals. When a young woman from a humble background marries into a millionaire dynasty, what should be a toast to her new life turns into an unpredictable hunt where the prize is her own survival. The premise takes on a darkly comedic edge, drawing in anyone who loves seeing things spiral out of control on screen. It's a macabre irony about the institution of marriage that really makes you want to peek behind the curtain. It's pretty much unanimous that the lead carries the movie on her back, and that's no exaggeration. Samara Weaving delivers a spectacular, attitude-packed performance, quickly establishing herself as a totally badass final girl. You know that feeling of watching someone slowly break down, only to rise back up fueled entirely by hatred and raw survival instinct? That's exactly what she does here. She effortlessly switches between the genuine panic of a terrified victim and the blind fury of someone who simply refuses to die. The audience gets completely invested because her physical reactions are so authentic. Her screams are guttural. Her exhaustion is palpable. You spend the whole night rooting for Grace because her pain and shock feel incredibly real in the middle of such an absurd situation. Adam Brody really stands out as the wild card in the mix. He brings a nice, melancholic dramatic weight playing the groom's brother, acting as the only broken moral compass in that house. Andie MacDowell also tries to bring a dark, sober vibe to the clan's matriarch, balancing elegance with a chilling coldness. But the rest of the Le Domas family slides way too far into caricature. Sure, the bizarre contrast between their psychopathy and their total incompetence at wielding antique weapons brings some good laughs. Seeing coked-up rich folks accidentally kill their own maids is hilarious. The downside is that this constant clowning around takes a lot of focus away from the actual threat. It's hard to feel genuinely scared when the villains just seem like spoiled idiots with money, which waters down the tension the story really needed. The directing duo knows exactly what kind of chaotic circus they've set up. They don't try to reinvent the wheel of psychological thrillers, opting instead for pure action. The camera work is super agile, closely following the despair, almost glued to the protagonist's heavy breathing during the chase scenes. You can tell they're having fun throwing the viewer from one hallway to the next. But maybe it lacked a little more subtlety and boldness in building up the fear. The direction leans heavily on the screaming, the general confusion, and the bloodbath, missing the chance to create quieter sequences that would actually send shivers down your spine. The story simply has no patience for beating around the bush. The script steps on the gas at the end of the first act and never lets up. You're thrown right into the middle of the hunt incredibly fast, which guarantees a dynamic pace that won't let you look away from the screen. This frantic structure keeps you hooked from start to finish. And the transitions are blunt and ruthless. Grace can barely catch her breath between dodging a shotgun blast and stumbling into a pit full of dead bodies. It's a roller coaster designed never to stop, and the script hits the bullseye by keeping the urgency of the night alive right up until the final minutes, even if it means sacrificing deeper development for the supporting characters. We're living in an era of movies that love to bash the elite and explore the horrors of capitalism. This movie tries to ride that wave hard, and the social critique angle actually grabs your attention at first. It becomes obvious right away that the real villain isn't the occult curse or Mr. Le Bail, but the sick greed of an elite willing to wipe out anyone necessary to keep their privileges intact. The problem is that the script only scratches the surface of this idea. It lacked a much sharper, smarter bite to truly poke at how these people live. The movie would rather spend its screen time showing exploding heads than deeply exploring the complex motivations of that rotten family dynamic. The metaphor is there, but it's treated like a shallow accessory. This crazy balancing act of genres ends up splitting opinions and will define whether you love or hate the experience. The script tries to balance raw survival instinct with absolutely badly-timed jokes. And the dark humor works beautifully in several scenes, creating wonderful comedic catharsis amidst the chaos. But there are times when the comedy crushes and drains the horror. The movie rarely lets your stomach churn with dread before throwing in a ridiculous situation, a stupid line from a family member, or a massive screw-up in the middle of the slaughter. The suspense never fully manages to settle in because the film seems almost terrified of taking itself seriously for more than five minutes at a time. Being trapped inside a giant, locked-down house with a bunch of armed millionaires should be a purely terrifying experience. The setting really creates a suffocating vibe at the start of the hunt, putting you on high alert in the wide, dimly lit spaces. But the mood gives so much ground to the absurdity of the premise that the oppressive feeling evaporates. Instead of biting your nails in fear, the atmosphere drags you into a nervous laugh at the sheer stupidity of the situation. The house stops being a terrifying slaughterhouse and turns into a giant, bizarre playground for a deadly, childish game. The decision to confine almost all the action to that closed space results in some great shots. The cinematography makes brilliant use of the secret passages, the rustic wooden walls, and the dark corners of the luxurious mansion. The visual contrast between the pristine rooms and the accumulating grime is beautiful to look at. But the biggest visual charm, without a doubt, is the wardrobe. The way the wedding dress transforms carries fantastic symbolic weight. That white gown, once immaculate and untouchable, gets chopped up, stained with dirt, soaked in blood, and torn at the legs to make it easier to run. It's the perfect, methodical image of a naive woman transitioning into a lethal, ruthless warrior. The makeup and production design teams completely nailed it by avoiding the lazy CGI that haunts so many movies today. Going with practical effects makes everything look raw and visceral. The deep flesh cuts, the arrow wounds, the shots to the face, and the exploding bodies look disgusting and very real on screen. The over-the-top use of gallons of fake blood clashing with the absolute luxury and wildly expensive rugs gives the deaths a highly comedic visual weight. And the art design shines in the choice of the family's weapons. Each character gets a tool ranging from heavy halberds to hunting crossbows, which brilliantly reinforces just how outdated, ridiculous, and sick this family tradition really is. The original score completes the movie's irony in a subtle, highly sarcastic way. The composer uses classical, polished, and serene instrumental melodies to mock the aristocracy that is losing its mind and killing each other in such dirty, beastly ways in the hallways. It's the sound of luxury clashing with the image of barbarism. But the sound design itself is what shines the brightest in building technical tension when the direction falls short. The creaking of the old floorboards, the tense zip of arrows slicing the air near the protagonist's face, the muffled crack of gunshots, and breaking bones-all of this fills the dense silence of the house and drags you right into that intense, painful night. At the end of the day, the experience feels like a fast, but slightly derailed roller coaster. The movie loses some valuable points for keeping its class critique shallow and for letting the slapstick comedy tone overshadow and run over the suspense during crucial moments of the plot. But even slipping up on those important details, Samara Weaving's absurd charisma and that explosive, stupidly brave climax make up for every minute you invested in the ride. It's the kind of movie that embraces what it is and delivers an extremely cathartic popcorn flick, made to entertain without weighing heavy on anyone's conscience. Get the couch ready, call your friends, and find out for yourself if you'd have the stomach to survive a wedding in this family.

Sierbahnn

Sierbahnn

May 5, 2026 · via TMDB

★ 7.0

This is a deeply silly premise, but they play it more or less completely straight, and with the casting and directing being this good, it comes off as a completely sincere take on something outrageous. The ending is one of the best in recent movie-goes history. I can whole-heartedly recommend this, if nothing else then for the casting.

Dean

Dean

Apr 5, 2026 · via TMDB

★ 8.0

Ready or Not (2019) is a brilliant, high-energy fusion of dark comedy and survival horror that breathes fresh life into the "most dangerous game" trope. The film excels by taking the universal anxiety of meeting the in-laws and escalating it into a literal, blood-soaked fight for survival within a sprawling, gothic mansion. Samara Weaving delivers a powerhouse performance as Grace, evolving from a confused bride into a gritty, resilient survivor. Her descent through the literal and metaphorical filth of the Le Domas family estate is both harrowing and darkly hilarious. The film’s greatest strength lies in its tone—it manages to be genuinely tense and violent while simultaneously skewering the absurdity of "old money" traditions and the incompetence of the entitled elite. The production design is lush, utilizing the labyrinthine hallways and candlelit rooms to create a claustrophobic yet grand atmosphere. While the central mystery of the "curse" keeps the stakes high, the sharp writing and eccentric supporting cast ensure the momentum never falters. It is a stylish, savage, and immensely satisfying ride that stands out as one of the best horror-comedies of its decade.

r96sk

r96sk

Aug 17, 2024 · via TMDB

★ 8.0

What to think about this one... I'm not totally sure how I view <em>'Ready or Not'</em>. There are elements to it that I love, things I would've liked to have played differently and one bit that I kinda hated. I'll start with the big positives: Samara Weaving and the visual of Samara Weaving. How epic does Grace look by the end of the movie? So good! Weaving herself gives a brilliant performance, easily the star of the show. Now for the parts I'd change, admittedly I haven't thought it through properly so probably wouldn't have made sense, but I digress. Based on the early knockings, I could sense the obvious rift in terms of support that the characters had for 'the event'. I would've loved if we had a civil war-esque situation develop, you could've had basically everything that still happens in the film but Grace, Alex, Daniel and Becky vs. the rest would've been cooler and more eventful imo. As for the bit I disliked: it involves Mark O'Brien's Alex at the end. What an utterly woeful twist, a twist for the sake of twisting. It was quite something how my interest in the movie left me in that exact moment, I don't think a film has lost me that sharply before. So stupid and unnecessary. However, there is a caveat to that. The flick, in fairness, kinda won me back shortly after with the actual conclusion. The 'pops' are amusingly ace, while the final line of Weaving's Grace is a good'un. I just wish that aforementioned issue with Alex didn't happen, because it has altered how I feel about this; albeit, I think, after judging it as an overall, I can still class this 2019 picture as very good.

Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

Dec 12, 2023 · via TMDB

★ 3.0

**The evil of money, a brutal carnage and a marriage for love in a movie of ups and downs.** How many times we, common contributors, do not think of the hypothetical dark side that would like to exist in those rich families of business, politics and the arts? For many people, envy is very natural. Others, like me, are more concerned with the lawful origin of fortunes (what matters to me is that the rich honestly earn their money, the rest I feel it does not concern me) and others think that, since money is so earthly and perhaps evil, all great fortunes have some dose of perversity. Unlike people like me, who face money as a tool that can be well used or not, there are a lot of people who associate this malevolent load with money. This movie begins around this wealthy family and creates a story of Satanism, carnage and lack of scruples. Everything is set on the wedding of the Patriarch's firstborn son. The young bride, for his family to accept her, will have to play a mysterious traditional game that they all have to play at a given moment. A crazy initiation ritual in a hunting room full of weapons and embalmed animals. What follows is the predictable carnage. And I say predictable because the movie is stupidly easy to guess, which is the weak point of the plot. As a horror movie, it will only work for those who have a weak stomach for bloody scenes: yes, the movie has a lot of gore, but I've seen worse. Technically, the movie has its ups and downs. Taking advantage of the places that the production has achieved to shoot in Canada, including a famous museum-mansion, sets and costumes are excellent and worthy of a much more expensive thing. It is not a low-budget movie, it is obvious the producer has invested in the project, but it does not seem to be the first bet for a movie season: convincing and effective visual and sound effects help a lot and the editing was well performed. The soundtrack has its moments, but in contrast, cinematography is excessively trembled and occasionally poorly framed. With such apparently heavy bets, it was a shame to feel the production went to seek a third-ranking cast. The protagonists are not bad, but they lack the experience of first water projects with more calloused colleagues: Samara Weaving made a secondary character in “Three Billboards…”, Mark O'Brian went to do another in “Arrival” and Adam Brody participated In “Mr. & Mrs. smith ”, but it's that. They are actors competing for their space in the sunlight, a rightful desire, but without experience and perhaps a little raw. Truth be told, the movie also does not give them challenging characters or complex situations. The best actress here is Andie MacDowell, but it is far from showing the qualities we saw in her oldest work. Canadian Henry Czerny does what he can and is remarkable, but cannot save the movie alone.

The Movie Mob

The Movie Mob

Aug 27, 2022 · via TMDB

★ 8.0

**In a world of remakes, Ready or Not brings a bold new take on fun old horror.** It’s no wonder Ready Or Not’s directing duo was asked to take over the Scream franchise. This film has Scream’s dark humor dripping from every kill, every snarky one-liner, and every fully embraced horror trope. Ready or Not is a beautiful mixture of Scream, Clue, and The Most Dangerous Game, all held together by Samara Weaving’s fantastic performance. Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are the masters of taking over used horror tropes and using them to tease and subvert expectations creating dark, fun, and tense movies that delight any horror fan. Ready or Not does just that with a story that feels familiar and surprising, recognizable and innovative, resulting in an original slasher filled with charm and chills.

User reviews courtesy of TMDB.

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Cast 24
Samara Weaving

Samara Weaving

Grace

Adam Brody

Adam Brody

Daniel

Mark O'Brien

Mark O'Brien

Alex

Henry Czerny

Henry Czerny

Tony

Andie MacDowell

Andie MacDowell

Becky

Melanie Scrofano

Melanie Scrofano

Emilie

Kristian Bruun

Kristian Bruun

Fitch

Elyse Levesque

Elyse Levesque

Charity

Nicky Guadagni

Nicky Guadagni

Aunt Helene

John Ralston

John Ralston

Stevens

Liam MacDonald

Liam MacDonald

Georgie

Ethan Tavares

Ethan Tavares

Gabe

Hanneke Talbot

Hanneke Talbot

Clara

Celine Tsai

Celine Tsai

Tina

Daniela Barbosa

Daniela Barbosa

Dora

Etienne Kellici

Etienne Kellici

Young Daniel

Elana Dunkelman

Elana Dunkelman

Young Helene

James Eddy

James Eddy

Masked Family Member #1

Adam Winlove-Smith

Adam Winlove-Smith

Masked Family Member #2

Alicia Richardson

Alicia Richardson

Police Officer

Nat Faxon

Nat Faxon

Justin (voice)

Guy Busick

Guy Busick

Richard (uncredited)

R. Christopher Murphy

R. Christopher Murphy

Charlie (uncredited)

James Vanderbilt

James Vanderbilt

Mr. LeBail (uncredited)

Crew 27
Laura Hokstad

Laura Hokstad

Assistant Art Director

Aaron Becker

Aaron Becker

Main Title Designer

Brett Jutkiewicz

Brett Jutkiewicz

Director of Photography

Jennifer Vey

Jennifer Vey

Stunt Coordinator

Bas Reitsma

Bas Reitsma

Stunt Driver

Adam Winlove-Smith

Adam Winlove-Smith

Stunts

Darren Marsman

Darren Marsman

Stunts

Duncan McLeod

Duncan McLeod

Stunts

Edward A. Queffelec

Edward A. Queffelec

Stunts

James Eddy

James Eddy

Stunts

Jeanette Roxborough

Jeanette Roxborough

Stunts

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

Director

Tyler Gillett

Tyler Gillett

Director

Joanna Moore

Joanna Moore

First Assistant Director

Chad Villella

Chad Villella

Executive Producer

Daniel Bekerman

Daniel Bekerman

Executive Producer

Bradley J. Fischer

Bradley J. Fischer

Producer

James Vanderbilt

James Vanderbilt

Producer

Tripp Vinson

Tripp Vinson

Producer

William Sherak

William Sherak

Producer

Ashley Shields-Muir

Ashley Shields-Muir

Unit Production Manager

Mark DeSimone

Mark DeSimone

ADR Mixer

Ryan MacNeill

Ryan MacNeill

Foley Artist

Brian Tyler

Brian Tyler

Orchestrator

Brian Tyler

Brian Tyler

Original Music Composer

Guy Busick

Guy Busick

Writer

R. Christopher Murphy

R. Christopher Murphy

Writer

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