There’s a gleeful spirit of subversion that courses through Matt Bettinelli-Olpin’s and Tyler Gillett’s (known as Radio Silence) Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. It’s not just that the follow-up to their 2019 chamber piece is bloodier and more vicious, but that anytime you expect the film to narratively zag, it zigs, and that the characters have a striking interiority that stands in contrast with their histrionic antics. At its core, it delivers the cathartic thrill of seeing the wealthy get their devilish comeuppance, but on a deeper level, it celebrates the power of imaginative resistance. Taking place immediately […]
by Zachary Lee on Mar 25, 2026
Opening with a wedding and concluding with some kind of funeral, the horror-comedy Ready or Not is a welcomed late summer season addition. Grace (Samara Weaving) and Alex (Mark O’Brien) are married at the Le Domas family mansion. After the ceremony, the family announces that, as is tradition, they will promptly play a children’s game with (or more accurately, against) the bride, as she is the newest member of the Le Domas family and thus must pass a test. The game is Hide and Seek, and if Grace can make it to morning, she lives. If the Le Domas family […]
by Erik Luers on Aug 22, 2019Matt Bettinelli-Olpin: For our segment of V/H/S (“10/31/98”), we spent an entire night searching for a train. After hours of driving around, we still couldn’t get what we needed, so we decided to park near some tracks and wait. It was a little after midnight on a Tuesday and there we were: four friends, grown men sitting in a parked car with lights off, down a dark alley somewhere in South Los Angeles, dressed up as a pirate, a Marine, a life-sized teddy bear & the Unabomber. A woman walking by caught a glimpse of us and quickly picked up her pace–and I’m sure our awkward attempts […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2012