Movie about in laws trying to kill bride11/15/2023 ![]() The odds of her pulling that card were so tiny, he reasoned, and he couldn’t bear to live without her. Alex replies that he was in an impossible Catch-22 she made it clear that she was expecting a proposal, but if he told her about his family’s dark rituals she would leave him. Grace inquires why the hell he didn’t warn her that this could happen. But she drew the Hide and Seek card, which means the family has to sacrifice her to their demonic benefactor before dawn, otherwise they’ll all be destroyed (or so the legend goes.) Newcomers must play a game before they officially join the clan - sometimes it’s Checkers, sometimes Old Maid. When she asks why her new family is hunting her with antique weapons, he explains that his great grandfather made a literal deal with the devil upon founding their board game empire. Her new husband (Mark O’Brien) pulls her into a hidden servant’s corridor to talk her through an escape plan. Rather, it reveals a sinister force hiding in plain sight: the simple, insidious entitlement to women’s bodies.Įarly in the action, bride Grace (Samara Weaving) learns that her wedding night has turned into The Most Dangerous Game by witnessing a nanny’s accidental murder. (Though personally, as someone getting married in just over a month, the torture porn started well before the blood started flying.)īut despite the gore, wedding anxiety, and class resentment, the most disturbing exchange in Ready or Not has nothing to do with murder, and is only tangentially related to marriage or wealth. The film ends in a gleefully bloody, post-wedding massacre, literally and metaphorically burning down the house of blue-blooded privilege. If you haven’t seen the movie, know this: it lives up to that promise. Ready or Not is framed as a darkly comedic satire skewering the 1%, a kind of Cabin in the Woods meets Succession. ![]()
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