On her wedding night she has to take part in a bizarre ritual: every time someone new joins the family, they partake in a midnight game mechanically selected from a scary antique box. Grace (Weaving), an orphan brought up in foster homes, is marrying Alex (O’Brien) and into the wealthy Le Domas family, whose fortune has been made in board games. The set-up is delicious in its absurdity. Gaining much of its cojones from a star-making turn by Samara Weaving (niece of Hugo), it’s a comedy-horror-thriller that manages to perfectly juggle its constituent genres effortlessly. The latest from Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, two-thirds of the filmmaking group Radio Silence best known for the first-person horror segment of V/H/S, mashes up Clue and The Most Dangerous Game and infuses it with dark, nutty energy, gore (the loopy rather than repulsive kind), smart laughs and sharp satire at the expense of America’s well-to-do. Ready Or Not starts at a terrific pace - a Steadicam-shot chase through the corridors of a spooky mansion - and doesn’t let up.
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