History Film / ReadyOrNot2019

* 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, plus receiving some nasty injuries. In the end, her dream of joining a loving family does not come to pass, but she is still alive and set to inherit an extremely large fortune, plus the family won't be able to sacrifice anyone else.]] [[spoiler: Look, regardless of the said trope in general, the important thing to see all and hear all for what matters most is that Grace somehow managed to use her wit and determination to survive the whole entire thing throughout the process. That being said, it is likely she will eventually cure and recover very fast, possibly with aid from the police and paramedics, coming to the rescue at the scene of the crime to reveal what happened, upon their arrival that is.]]

* 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, plus receiving some nasty injuries. In the end, her dream of joining a loving family does not come to pass, but she is still alive and set to inherit an extremely large fortune, plus the family won't be able to sacrifice anyone else.]] [[spoiler: Look, regardless of the said trope in general, the important thing to see all and hear all for what matters most is that Grace somehow managed to use her wit and determination to survive the whole entire thing throughout the process. That being said, it is likely she will eventually cure and recover very fast, possibly with aid from the police and paramedics, coming to the rescue at the scene of a crime to reveal what happened.]]

* 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, plus receiving some nasty injuries. In the end, her dream of joining a loving family does not come to pass, but she is still alive and set to inherit an extremely large fortune, plus the family won't be able to sacrifice anyone else.]] Look, regardless of the said trope in general, the important thing to see all and hear all for what matters most is that Grace somehow managed to use her wit and determination to survive the whole entire thing throughout the process. That being said, it is likely she will eventually cure and recover very fast, possibly with aid from the police and paramedics, coming to the rescue at the scene of a crime to reveal what happened.

* 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, plus receiving some nasty injuries. In the end, her dream of joining a loving family does not come to pass, but she is still alive and set to inherit an extremely large fortune, plus the family won't be able to sacrifice anyone else.]] Look, in spite of the said trope in general, the important thing to see all and hear all for what matters most is that Grace somehow managed to use her wit and determination to survive the whole entire thing throughout the process. That being said, it is likely she will eventually cure and recover very fast, possibly with aid from the police and paramedics, coming to the rescue at the scene of a crime to reveal what happened.

* 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, plus receiving some nasty injuries. In the end, her dream of joining a loving family does not come to pass, but she is still alive and set to inherit an extremely large fortune, plus the family won't be able to sacrifice anyone else.]] Look, despite the said trope in general, the important thing to see all and hear all for what matters most is that Grace somehow managed to use her wit and determination to survive the whole entire thing throughout the process. That being said, it is likely she will eventually cure and recover very fast, possibly with aid from the police and paramedics, coming to the rescue at the scene of a crime to reveal what happened.

* 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, plus receiving some nasty injuries. In the end, her dream of joining a loving family does not come to pass, but she is still alive and set to inherit an extremely large fortune, plus the family won't be able to sacrifice anyone else.]]

* DeconstructiveParody: Of TheMostDangerousGame plot. A wealthy family literally hunts an unarmed woman as part of a twisted game...except they're [[UpperClassTwit Upper-Class Twits]] who barely know what they're doing, and even the more competent ones are too apathetic or out-of-practice to be as threatening as they could be.

** Aunt Helene is a particularly dark example of the trope, having lost her husband in the DistantPrologue. The hysterical bride pleading for her family to stop has become a sinister and fanatical WidowWoman. While the rest of the family welcomes Grace into the fold, Aunt Helene spends the entire affair glaring daggers at the bride.

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 a tradition: every new member of the family must play a game with the others, 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.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of variety of cliches related with HuntingTheMostDangerousGame and ImplacableMan:

* {{Determinator}}: Grace goes through hell and back to survive the night. [[spoiler:A massive gun-shot hole in her hand, a deep cut in her back, a car crash, a knife to the shoulder, nothing stops her from pushing forward to live]].

** [[spoiler:A second interpretation: Grace ''did'' play the game and survived the night, meaning she would be part of the family if it weren't for Helene. But as soon as she told Alex she wants a divorce, she removed herself from the family, with Le Bail acknowledging both her survival and honoring her wish by exploding Alex in line with the rest of the family, thus keeping her alive.]]

** The board games seen in the opening - Family Ritual and Le Bail's Gambit.
** During the wedding photos Charity tells Daniel that Grace will never be part of the family. Daniel replies, "Of course not, she has a soul." At the time this seems like a slight against his [[RichBitch wife]] and [[OldMoney family]]. Later it is revealed that members of the family [[spoiler: have sold their souls to Mr. Le Bail.]]
* GoldDigger: Daniel's wife Charity very clearly and openly married him for his money. Everyone is aware of it and nobody holds any grudges about it, either. How desperate was she before they got married? Daniel explained the ritual game night to her and how it can turn. She ''didn't even blink'', fully aware the family might as well murder her. This seems to even win her their respect.

** Presumably the reason [[spoiler:Le Bail waits to kill the Le Domas until after they conclude the curse isn't real when they fail to sacrifice Grace in time]].

** Charity sneers at Grace for being too low-class to marry into the Le Domas empire. It's later implied her background is as bad, if not considerably worse, than Grace's.

** Emilie is high on cocaine and pills, causing her to miss Grace from less than twenty feet away. Though she does manage to kill two of the maids on accident with one shot each.
** Charity lines up a perfect shot on Grace but doesn't realize her harpoon gun fires in an arc so she misses as well.

-->(Clearly surprised with what she sees): Jesus...

-->(Unfazed by any of this): Fuck...

* MadeOfIron: A more realistic example than most. Grace survives being stabbed with a kitchen knife, taking a gunshot wound through her left hand which she is then forced to use as leverage to escape a pit, being cut slipping through an iron fence, being unbuckled during a car crash, knocked out with a butt of a rifle, and stabbed by a dagger. It's shown all these acts are incredibly painful, and at the end of the movie she's barely able to walk from all her injuries.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The last time the family played "Hide and Seek", they wore masks. It was not part of the tradition -- apparently it was Alex's grandfather's idea, drawing off of the popularity of '80s [[SlasherMovie slasher movies]].
* MamaBear: The matriarch of the Le Domas family, in spades. She genuinely loves her children and grandchildren, and rages when [[spoiler: Daniel dies]]. Emilie tries to be one, really only seeming to care when it comes to her sons. But she's just....not very good at it. Or anything else.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Most of the Le Domas family is rather well dressed. [[spoiler:Le Bail is likewise wearing a well made shirt and vest in his sole appearance]].

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Le Bail, the Le Domas family's demonic patron, is invisible and while the older members of the cult fear him the younger members (especially those who married in) doubt his existence. And yet, there are a number of contrived coincidences whenever the Le Domas try to break from traditions or Gracie attempts to leave. [[spoiler:And then the ending shows he is very, very real when he punishes the Le Domas failure with a gory death for the entire family and a tip of his glass to Grace for besting them.]]

* 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]].

* OutOfFocus: [[spoiler:Alex gets handcuffed to a bed throughout most of the second act]].

** Emilie kills the first maid by firing without taking the time to confirm the target ("Does she look like she's wearing a giant white wedding dress Emilie!?"). This is actually a twofer, as they ''aren't'' supposed to kill Grace, so she wasn't even aiming at the right part of the body.

* ResolvedNoodleIncident: The fate of the Van Horne family is left unspecified, beside the fact that all evidence was destroyed in the immolation of their house. In the end, we see what could have happened to them.

** Three different people try to help the Le Domases find Grace and each are killed before they can: [[spoiler:One of the maids is shot before she can finish saying where Grace is, another is crushed by the dumbwaiter as she calls out, and Stevens gets into a car crash as he's bringing Grace back to the mansion]].
* ScreamingWarrior: After escaping the second attempted ritual sacrifice, Grave lets out what can only be described as a ''Banshee scream''.

** [[Film/MyCousinRachel My Cousin Rachel]] is mentioned to be a relative that was killed because of the curse.
** After [[spoiler:the third and last maid]] is killed, Daniel sardonically quips "Literature/AndThenThereWereNone."

** 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.

** Tranquilizer darts' potency isn't uniform and thus usually can't keep a target out for more than a few minutes, let alone hours unless designed with that in mind. [[spoiler: Stevens finds this out when he uses a couple on Grace, only for her to wake up (if groggy) soon after and cause him to crash his car.]]
* {{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 [[BrokenBird indubitably lost her innocence]] and [[BrokenPedestal completely fallen out of love with Alex]].]]

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In-universe. The Le Domas children argue that they should be able to use the house cameras for the hunt because the only reason they weren’t used in the first hunt was because they didn’t exist yet.

** Alex spends most of the movie helping Grace, but his mother believes that when it comes down to it he will choose them over her. [[spoiler:She's right]].
** [[spoiler:As it turns out, this does not apply to Daniel, though him saving Grace is somewhat an effort to honor his brother's wishes]].

* TrappedInVillainy: How many of the Le Domas see themselves. They don't ''want'' to kill Grace, and some of them genuinely like her, but they believe that failing to sacrifice her will result in the death of the entire family. [[spoiler:And that belief proves to be correct.]]

** Grace has hers when she realizes she's fallen into a root cellar...filled with the rotting corpses of the Le Domas' previous victims.

* WealthyEverAfter: It's implied that [[spoiler: Grace stands to inherit the entire La Domas fortune since she's still legally Alex's widow, thus technically the only surviving member of the family.]]

** [[spoiler:Alex also finds Grace alone at the end of the film, but as she just killed his mother and (indirectly) got his brother killed, he turns on her]].
* WhiteSheep: Alex Le Domas, and to a lesser extent Daniel. Both try to protect Grace from the family over the course of the night, Alex because she's his bride and Daniel because as a child he got the previous sacrifice killed by calling out to his family where they were hiding. [[spoiler:Daniel dies protecting Grace, while Alex performs a FaceHeelTurn when he realizes Grace doesn't love him anymore after a horrific night being hunted by his family]].
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: During the three times Graces gets at the mercy of the Le Domases, they get her BoundAndGagged instead of killing her, leaving her several chances of escaping. Justified since the objective of the Hide and Seek is not to outright kill, but to incapacitate Grace in order to [[spoiler: sacrifice her during a satanic ritual before dawn]].

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

* AxeCrazy: Aunt Helene is the most openly psychotic. Bonus points for her WeaponOfChoice being a battle-axe.

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

* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler:[[LudicrousGibs "I want a divorce"]]]]

* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler:After killing the entire Le Domas family for failing to kill Grace, Mr. Le Bail allows her to leave instead of killing her. Possibly because, as the family members stated, one has to play the game before becoming a family member. Her survival prevents her from being counted as one. It's also implied that Grace could've gotten Alex spared as well if she had accepted his apology, but when she asks for a divorce and throws the ring at him, he explodes as well.]]

This film marked the first theatrically released horror film distributed by Creator/{{Disney}} in 7 years, having not released such a film since ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}''.

* BystanderSyndrome: Once [[spoiler:Grace manages to leave the estate and flag a passing car]] the motorist just speeds up upon seeing [[spoiler:a blood-spattered woman in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.]] Justin, after being contacted through the in-car vehicle assist to call the police because Grace is being chased by murderers, immediately [[spoiler:disables the car, because it had been called in as stolen.]]

''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 Creator/HenryCzerny also appear in major roles.


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 others, 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. One small detail they neglected to mention is that there is a twist to the game; the hider needs to be ''dead'' if the seekers want to win, and so Grace must keep hiding or fight back if she wants to survive.

* 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, plus getting maimed in her left hand. 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]].

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

** The Le Domases are a group of UpperClassTwit{{s}} with only the barest idea what they're doing during the game. Even armed to the teeth, they're ''not'' effective killers

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: During the three times Graces gets at the mercy of the Le Domases, they get her BoundAndGagged instead of killing her, leaving her several chances of escaping. Justified since the objetive of the Hide and Seek is not to outright kill, but to incapacitate Grace in order to [[spoiler: sacrifice her during a satanic ritual before dawn]].

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Grace tries to convince Daniel that he is this. [[spoiler:She's proven correct, though it gets him killed.]]

* YouKilledMyMother: [[spoiler:Alex was always willing to help Grace survive until he realizes she beat Becky to death, at which point he gives her up for the ritual. That and realising Grace doesn't feel anything toward him anymore aside disgust]].
* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler:After killing the entire Le Domas family for failing to kill Grace, Mr. Le Bail allows her to leave instead of killing her. Possibly because, as the family members stated, one has to play the game before becoming a family member. Her survival prevents her from being counted as one. It's also implied that Grace could've gotten Alex spared as well if she had accepted his apology, but when she asks for a divorce, he explodes as well.]]

** Emilie (sensing a pattern?) kills the second maid due to poor trigger discipline, resulting in her accidentally firing the crossbow.

* DangerTakesABackseat: Heroic variant. [[spoiler: Grace comes to in the backseat of a car as Stevens is driving her back to the house. She kicks him in the face, causing a crash that kills him.]]
* DarkReprise: [[spoiler:As the mansion burns down, the record player starts up again, playing a warped version of the Hide-and-Seek song]].

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