History Film / ReadyOrNot2019

* {{Symbolism}}: Grace's dress acts as an indication of her feelings throughout the story. In the beginning, it's pure and pristine, like her love for Alex. But after learning the nature of the Los Domas' ''traditions'', her dress gradually grows more torn and less white as the movie progresses, reflecting her loss of innocence and waning affection for Alex or his family. [[spoiler: After Alex's betrayal (and the Le Domas' deaths), Grace's dress is stained with blood and worse for wear, reflecting how she's [[BrokenPedestal completely fallen out of love with Alex]].]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Despite making it through the night and the Le Domas family getting their just desserts, Grace loses her husband, who betrayed her in the end, and some parts of her sanity. In the end, her dream of joining a loving family does not come to pass and she is all alone. But she is still alive and the family won't be able to sacrifice anyone else, not to mention that Grace is set to inherit an extremely large fortune]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Despite making it through the night and the Le Domas family getting their just desserts, Grace loses her husband, who betrayed her in the end, and some parts of her sanity. In the end, her dream of joining a loving family does not come to pass and she is all alone]].

* YouKilledMyMother: [[spoiler:Alex was always willing to help Grace survive until he watches her beat Becky to death in front of him, at which point he gives her up for the ritual. That and realising Grace doesn't feel anything toward him anymore aside disgust]].

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/YoureNext'', another [[BlackComedy darkly comedic]] horror film about a young woman fighting to survive in the home of the wealthy BigScrewedUpFamily of her lover. That film leaned much closer to the "horror" side of the SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror and had the family be among the victims of the killers, whose true goals and identity were presented as a twist. This film, meanwhile, is a full-blown HorrorComedy in which the family are themselves the villains. Both of them even star Australian actresses as the protagonists, but while in ''You're Next'' Erin was [[invoked]] [[ActorSharedBackground herself Australian as well]], which was used to [[AwesomeAussie explain her badass feats]], Grace is an American woman who's simply [[FakeAmerican played by an Australian]]. The film's also doubles as a...
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/YoureNext''. The films were released eight years apart, but both center around [[spoiler:inheritance issues]], feature large rich families, and have an intelligent, resourceful, and determined {{Action|Girl}}/FinalGirl fighting back largely single-handedly against a large group of killers. Both films also feature the {{Final Girl}}s [[spoiler: suffering a betrayal at the hands of their significant others, resulting in said FinalGirls killing them.]]

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/YoureNext'', another [[BlackComedy darkly comedic]] horror film about a young woman fighting to survive in the home of the wealthy BigScrewedUpFamily of her lover. That film leaned much closer to the "horror" side of the SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror and had the family be among the victims of the killers, whose true goals and identity were presented as a twist. This film, meanwhile, is a full-blown HorrorComedy in which the family are themselves the villains. Both of them even star Australian actresses as the protagonists, but while in ''You're Next'' Erin was [[invoked]] [[ActorSharedBackground herself Australian as well]], which was used to [[AwesomeAussie explain her badass feats]], Grace is an American woman who's simply [[FakeAmerican played by an Australian]].

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: [[spoiler:After she has managed to survive the deadly game of Hide and Seek, Grace, covered in her late husband's blood, sits down on the stairs in the front of the burning Le Domas Mansion, procures a cigarette case from her dress, takes out a cigarette and starts smoking it with a ThousandYardStare on her face.]]

This film marked the first theatrically released horror film distributed by Creator/{{Disney}} (via [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Fox Searchlight Pictures]]) in 7 years, having not released such a film since ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}''.

* ContrivedCoincidence: After Grace makes Stevens crash his car, both Daniel and Tony find the exact site of the crash before Grace can leave.

* NotSoDifferent: Helene claims Alex will eventually participate in the hunt because he's too much like her. [[spoiler: She's right.]]

* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:How Mr. Le Bail slaughters all of the surviving Le Domases at the end, painting the walls of the family room -- and [[CoveredInGunge Grace]] -- red with blood.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** The villains are a wealthy family who engage in HuntingTheMostDangerousGame as part of a DealWithTheDevil, and are armed to the teeth in order to do so. Except it's been a few decades since they actually had to hunt someone in order to complete the ritual, meaning that they're incredibly rusty at doing so; and they probably weren't anticipating having to do so this evening. And on top of this, they're all a bunch of lazy, entitled rich jerks used to having others wait on them, with the usual vices this implies. So instead of being one person faced against a remorselessly efficient team of hunters, as this trope usually is, it turns out the hunt is a lot more even-sided.
** Unlike Stevens the butler, the maids are too young to have been involved in the last game of Hide-and-Seek. When two of the maids are (accidentally) killed by the Le Domases, the third takes to hiding in a dumbwaiter, terrified she's next.
** Stevens himself. At the end of the day, he’s still a ''butler'', not a trained assassin. Grace is much younger and more agile than him, so he doesn't have an easy time of subduing her.
** Grace stops choking Stevens and leaves immediately after he stops moving. As she's driving his car away, he starts getting up, having only passed out momentarily.
** After striking Tony twice with his old fashioned lantern, Grace carelessly tosses it away, causing it to start a fire.
** Charity insists she'd rather die than lose the Le Domas' wealth. When presented with the reality of actually dying, she starts begging to be spared.
** Since Alex never warned Grace about any of the family rituals prior to the wedding night and having to constantly fight for her life against said family, Grace is openly distrustful toward him and doesn't even allow him to get close. Whatever bond they had is pretty much gone by that point.
** Most of the Le Domas family are at least mildly skeptical of the family's alleged DealWithTheDevil. Even Tony, who believes in it the most after Helene, scoffs at his sister's claims that Alex once saw Le Bail, saying Alex was a child who likely either imagined it or misremembered.

Grace (Weaving) has just gotten married to Alex Le Domas (Mark O'Brien) and joined his family's boardgame and sports "dominion". On the night of their wedding, Alex's family asks Grace to participate in their tradition; every new member of the family must play a game with the other, which is determined by the drawing of a card from a strange old puzzle box. Everyone expects that it will be a standard round of some classic boardgame, but when Grace draws the card for Hide and Seek, everyone else goes strangely quiet.

Grace is told she must stay hidden until dawn, but she soon learns that her new in-laws are hunting for her while heavily armed with an arsenal of various weapons. For there is a twist to the game; namely that the hider needs to be dead if the seekers want to win, and so she must keep hiding or fight back if she wants to survive.

* CensoredChildDeath: [[spoiler: As the Le Domases begin to explode one by one in the film's climax, Emilie grabs her two young sons and tries to run away with them in a desperate attempt to escape the curse. They manage to make it out of the room- and offscreen- before three more explosions are heard and a rain of blood sprays in from the open door.]]

* ClusterFBomb: Grace ''really'' lets it rip for almost half a minute of uninterrupted profanity directed at [[spoiler:a passing motorist who doesn't even stop when a blood-spattered Grace tries to flag his car.]]

** Likewise, "Le Bail" is an anagram of "Belial"

** 'Alexander' comes from the Greek meaning 'defender/helper of mankind' - Alex spends a great deal of the film helping his bride survive the night against the family tradition.
* MercyLead: By default, Grace is given a run-up of "count to 100", to set up the game. [[spoiler: Upon running into her in the billiards room, Daniel offers her a ten second head start before he calls the rest of the family]].

* SirSwearsALot: Perfectly understandable given the circumstances, but Grace is really foul-mouthed.

''Ready or Not'' is a 2019 {{horror comedy}} written by Guy Busick & R. Christopher Murphy, directed by Matt Bentinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett of the filmmaking collective Radio Silence (''[[Film/{{VHS}} V/H/S]]''), and starring Creator/SamaraWeaving. Creator/AdamBrody, Creator/AndieMacDowell, and Henry Czerny also appear in major roles.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Grace is filthy, wounded and covered in blood by the end of the film, but her face is still pretty.

Grace is told she must stay hidden until dawn, but she soon learns that her new in-laws are hunting for while heavily armed with an arsenal of various weapons. For there is a twist to the game; namely that the hider needs to be dead if the seekers want to win, and so she must keep hiding or fight back if she wants to survive.

-->'''Grace: I can't believe that in half an hour I will be part of the Le Domas gaming... dynasty, empire?

** Unlike Stevens the butler, the maids are too young to have been involved in the last game of Hide-and-Seek. When two of the maids are killed by the Le Domases, the third takes to hiding in a dumbwaiter, terrified she's next.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Alex [[spoiler: intially appears to be this for the family, but by the end he embraces his heritage and begins taking part in the ritual to kill Grace. Daniel turns out to be a better example; he's clearly unethusiatic about the ritual and his family in general, dispassionately lets Grace escape at one point, and ultimately [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies saving Grace's life.]]]]

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: [[spoiler:After she has managed to survive the deadly game of Hide and Seek, Grace, covered in her late husband's blood, sits down on the stairs in the front of the burning Le Domas Mansion, and pulls out a cigarette from a case in her dress and starts smoking it with a ThousandYardStare on her face.]]