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Ready or Not ... The thrilling hunt is on

Ready or Not is a fun and gory thriller, even though those two statements feel like they shouldn’t belong in the same sentence. The film stars Samara Weaving who does a great job showing the lengths of her characters frustration in the movie. The picture brings about its thrilling, and gory, moments in a manner that I can only describe as realistic. I also don’t mean realistic as in it obeys the laws of physics, but that all the characters act in line with how they should be in their respective situations. Additionally, the moments of comedic levity don’t actually feel like they should be comedic moments at the start. However, this dynamic works for the film incredibly well as you’ll find yourself laughing at unexpected times while simultaneously gasping out of shock. Samara Weaving also made a great main character, and there’s something about a character in a wedding dress holding a shotgun that I personally find incredibly appealing. The rest of the cast also did well with their respective character roles. My favorite of the group was Melanie Scrofano who plays the coked up family screw-up and she never failed to make me chuckle. Andie MacDowell and Henry Czerny both nail their parts with an admirable job of accentuating their roles as the family heads. Ready or Not also uses a very interesting device that is typically in more horror centric films. The concept of whether the supernatural is real or not is played with through out the entirety of the movie till the very end, as opposed to other horrors films. I often find that in these horror films that around the end of the first act the character who said “Ghosts aren’t real!” is usually already being dragged off by some demon. In the end I would recommend watching Ready or Not if gore doesn’t bother you and you’re just looking for what I would say is a fun, visceral thriller with a solid main character.


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