¡QUÉ HORROR! 2020
Candidate #1
READY OR NOT
(July 2019)
“It's true what they say, the rich really are
different.”
Grace (Samara
Weaving) is about to marry Alex (Mark O’Brien), thus becoming a part of the (Ahem!) Le Domas Family Games
dynasty-slash-empire (as Alex puts it though, it’s “‘Dominion.’ We prefer
‘dominion.’”).
And
while Alex’s family’s company has brought joy to the world with such game gems
as (Ahem! Ahem!!) Le Bail’s Gambit, he nonetheless describes them as “horrible
people.”
Regardless,
Grace still wants in.
Much
to her regret.
“No, you don’t f*ck
Mr. Le Bail. Mr. Le Bail f*cks you.”
Ready or Not is a wildly
entertaining ride from Radio Silence, specifically, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and
Tyler Gillett, who’ve graced previous ¡Qué horror! rundowns with their contributions to V/H/S and Southbound.
And while their first ¡Qué horror! feature Candidate is primarily a
comedy (don’t let that one sheet fool you), it does feature horror elements in
its narrative, and there’s sufficient gore and repulsion on display to warrant
a mention here.
With Adam Brody (as Alex’s older brother Daniel), Andie MacDowell (as family matriarch
Becky), and Orphan Black’s Kristian
Bruun (as another married-into-the-family, Fitch Bradley) in the cast, Ready or Not is a blackly amusing entry
in “The Crazy Sh!t Rich People Do” subgenre.
“F*cking rich people.”
(Ready or Not
OS courtesy of impawards.com.)
