The new member of the family draws a card from a special box, revealing the name of a game that everyone then must play. One of their stranger traditions - though at least it’s in keeping with the family business - is that at midnight after a wedding, everyone comes together in the special family-only drawing room. Fox SearchlightĪs you might guess, the Le Domas clan is not. So the whole family has convened, including creepy Aunt Helene (Nicky Guadagni), to witness their union. And though Alex fled his family years ago - “they’re horrible people,” he tells Grace - he’s agreed to host the wedding at his family’s estate because Grace so wanted to be part of a family. Grace is beautiful and spunky and grew up in foster homes as one family member remarks to another, she is nothing like the Le Domas family, because she “has a soul.” Because she grew up without a permanent family, Grace is delighted to be joining one, whether or not they’re wealthy. The whole family has gathered for Alex’s wedding to Grace (Samara Weaving). Now they’re fabulously wealthy, and the current patriarch Tony (Henry Czerny) and his wife Becky (Andie MacDowell) live in the sprawling estate, while their children Melanie (Melanie Scrofano), Daniel (Adam Brody), and Alex (Mark O’Brien) have moved on to lives, spouses, and children of their own. The house is occupied by the Le Domas family, whose fortune was made on games - first they sold playing cards, during the Civil War, followed by more games and trinkets in subsequent generations. It’s the perfect sort of house in which to play hide-and-seek. Touches like servants’ passageways and dumbwaiters are preserved throughout. Ready or Not is a good old-fashioned satirical revenge fantasy, set in one of those creaky historic mansions with fantastic, expansive, obsessively manicured grounds. Ready or Not takes its name from a game, an amusement for children, but it has something to say about some very grown-up concerns.

In the end, it’s a fantasy of comeuppance - a bloody, manic one with plenty of weaponry and gore to go around and a determined heroine (or maybe an avenging angel) at its center. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark

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