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Seeing as how the Le Domases made their fortune in the field of games, Grace considers it reasonable enough that she should be asked to draw a card. To his credit, Alex tried his best to escape his relatives, but when Grace asked to get hitched, he had no choice but to observe their macabre conjugal tradition, whereby each new spouse must pass a kind of postnuptial initiation.
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The Le Domas family has its reasons, which the movie establishes in graphic enough detail when the time comes, although our sympathies lie with outsider Grace ( Samara Weaving), who knows as little as we do about her future in-laws going in, other than that they dress like vampires and call a creepy old castle home.Ī foster child with no real family of her own, Grace figured she’d hit the jackpot when she met Alex Le Domas (Mark O’Brien), unaware that the eligible bachelor could have such messed-up kin. To the extent the now-Disney-owned specialty division resembles old-school Miramax, an offering this twisted would have fallen under Dimension’s aegis (the arm that handled films like “Scream”), and its success will depend largely on clever marketing.Ī word of warning: Searchlight’s red-band trailer effectively suggests the tone but gives away many of the film’s surprises, so go in blind (and come back to read this review afterward) if you’re sensitive to spoilers.Īt its most basic, “Ready or Not” concerns a high-stakes game of Hide and Seek, in which a clan of ultra-rich and extremely unscrupulous bluebloods gang up to find - although “hunt” would be the better word - the newest addition to their old-money dynasty. This deliciously diabolical sophomore feature, which hails from the resourceful low-budget trio known as Radio Silence, represents a departure for indie distributor Fox Searchlight, which has a real winner on its hands - that rare “Get Out”-like horror movie capable of delivering superficial diversion alongside deep cultural critique - but limited experience handling genre fare.
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On the other hand, for “Crazy Rich Asians” haters and the romantically disinclined, this deranged and darkly comedic thriller - which stuffs the wedding cake full of razor blades, then blows up the chapel - packs subversive pleasures aplenty, exaggerating the anxieties of marrying into an unfamiliar family by confronting its unsuspecting bride with a worst-case set of in-laws. If you count yourself among those who interpret a matrimonial “I do” to mean “happily ever after,” maybe “ Ready or Not” isn’t the late-summer date movie for you.