Ready Or Not

Ready Or Not is a satire/ horror film starring our very own Samara Weaving who plays a newlywed bride, Grace, and has just married into a very wealthy and very ‘fucked-up’ family. The Le Domas family. What ensues is a game of hide and seek which becomes a hunt with the Le Domas family fully armed and determined to find and kill the fairy tale bride in her long white wedding gown.

A very clever take on the gap between the rich and the poor, something the British do brilliantly. The film never quite manages to pull off the kind of satire it’s aiming for, due to the penchant for actual rather than imagined violence and the constant repetition of the word ‘fuck’ in all its various forms instead of witty throwaway insults. 

Still, this is perfect for Halloween.

The set is wonderful. An old mansion with hidden rooms and corridors, a psycho aunt, a maniacal butler and frightened bride who eventually turns the tables on all, though, not without toughening up and becoming more like Uma Thurman, not in this film but in Kill Bill. 

Ready Or Not will, no doubt, have a sequel and the gun-toting, hunted bride with attitude, is certainly a game-changer.

★★★

Reviewed by Renee Lou Dllow