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Grace Le Domas
Grace Le Domas
Fuck your fucking family!
Played By: Samara Weaving
The newly wed bride of Alex Le Domas who must play a game in order to become part of the family. She unfortunately find out her circumstances are far more threatening than it first seemed.
- Action Girl: As she is chased around the mansion, she's forced to get her hands dirty in order to survive. She also ends up surviving to the end of the film.
- Action Survivor: She's also just a normal woman with a normal life forced into a situation she never anticipated.
- Action Dress Rip: She does this to her wedding dress in order to maneuver around easier and even puts on tennis shoes.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: More than once, she begs someone to let her escape.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She's a caring, sweet-natured young woman who loves her future husband and family very much. After being relentlessly hunted by her in-laws for several hours, she has no trouble resorting to brutalizing them to death. Especially with her newlywed husband, who she explicitly allows to die.
- Blood-Splattered Warrior: This ends up happening to her when Helene attempts to kill Grace after the sun rises and the rest of the family members explode into gory messes.
- Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: Her white wedding dress gets more and more bloodied as the night goes on. By the climax after every member of the Le Domas family bloodily explodes, she's caked in blood with no trace of white left.
- Clothing Damage: Her wedding dress acts as a clock, signalling how traumatized and brutalized she's been. It starts out clean and nice and eventually becomes irreparably wrecked, starting with an Action Dress Rip.
- Cluster F-Bomb: It seems like she may have a means of escape as a motorist passes by, but when he willfully ignores her, she goes on a cursing rampage that lasts for a good thirty seconds.
- Combat Pragmatist: Since she's not a combatant or very strong, she has to resort to dirty tricks to escape more than once.
- The Determinator: What allows her to survive through the night.
- Foster Kid: She mentions she was this when she was younger, which is why she's excited to become part of the family since she's never had one before.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Smokes cigarettes out of the pack, unlike Becky who uses a fancy carrying case.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and a very loving, sweet-natured person.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: During her wedding, she confides in Becky that she always wanted a real family.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: She has really bright blue eyes, and she's a really sweet girl. She's forced to lose the innocence as the movie wears on.
- Laughing Mad: After the family fails to kill her before sunrise and Helene still attempts to kill her they all explode and Grace is left covered in their blood and laughing like mad.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: One moment in particular stands out when Charity kills Daniel who just saved Grace's life. Instead of screaming and crying, she quietly walks up to Charity and knocks her unconscious with the very gun Charity used to kill Daniel. After this, she brutalizes Tony and smashes Becky's skull.
- Made of Iron: Takes a level of punishment most wrestlers would find excessive but keeps going.
- Marry for Love: Despite what the Le Domas family thinks, she marries Alex because she loves him and is excited to be a part of a family for the first time. By the end of the film, she no longer loves Alex because of the trauma his family put her through, causing him to betray her.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: She's a slender woman with Tony even calling her a "twig" but is surprisingly strong, able to pull herself up through sheer strength to escape the farmhouse.
- Nice Girl: Grace is a very charming and loving young woman who is very excited to join the Le Domas family, at least at first.
- No Full Name Given: Her maiden name is conspicuously absent from the film.
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: Samara Weaving has large eyes, and she puts them to good use for Grace. She's an absolute sweetheart, and her eyes draw the viewer in, especially during the wedding shoot where she's visibly shaking. And it gets to be a darker example when she's in tears upon realizing how much danger she really is in.
- Precision F-Strike: Gets multiple of these especially when she sees Mr. Le Bail nod at her after she wins the game.
- Premortem One Liner:Grace: I want a divorce.
(Explosion) - Rule of Symbolism: Grace's wedding outfit changes as the movie progresses and degrades as a reflection of the effects the night has on her. It starts out with the classical elegant white wedding dress, and ends being torn apart in various places and completely stained red.
- Sanity Slippage: Never confirmed. By the end of the film, she's reduced to Mirthless Laughter, and dryly remarks what happened over the course of the night with nonchalance.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Curses more than anyone else in the movie. More than everyone else combined for that matter.
- Tears of Fear: After learning the nature of Hide-and-Seek, Grace has tears running down her face as she realizes just what kind of situation she's in.
- Took a Level in Badass: Grows from an innocent girl to a full-on survival warrior.
Le Domas Family
General
General tropes about the members of the Le Domas family.
- Affably Evil: The family is fairly warm and kind to Grace and if not for her having picked "Hide and Seek", they probably would have been good in-laws when she married in.
- Asshole Victim: After they failed to perform the ritual in time, those that survived died by being blown up.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Obvious even before the killing starts.
- Blue Blood: The family is old money and more than a little snooty.
- Deal with the Devil: Their ancestor made a deal with Mr. Le Bail, a man heavily implied to be the Devil, in exchange for fabulous wealth.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: With the exception of Charity, the family loves each other very dearly, and even Charity is genuinely shaken after she accidentally kills Daniel, since she never wanted him dead despite their strained marriage.
- Everybody's Dead, Dave: The whole family is dead by the end of the film.
- The Family That Slays Together: All members of the Le Domas are basically okay with the ritual.
- Fiction 500: It's mentioned that the Le Domas own four sports teams, on top of their board game empire and numerous other exploits.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Averted, most of the family gets projectile weapons, like guns and crossbows, to hunt Grace with. Helene is the only family member to carry an axe.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Daniel feels guilty enough about betraying Helene's husband to his family when he was a boy that he sabotages the ritual to save Grace's life. Directly because of this, they fail to murder Grace in time, and Mr. Le Bail finally offs them all after they themselves have committed so many murders, with Grace being the only one left to inherit the vast fortune it was all for.
- Laughably Evil: Through their incompetence, dysfunctionality and occasional bonding, the family is fun to watch.
- Louis Cypher: Just like Mister Le Bail, the family's name, according to
Word of God, is an anagram for the fallen angel, Asmodel or more importantly, it speaks of Alex's betrayal of his new wife Grace at the climax of the movie, "A Sold Me". - Ludicrous Gibs: All members of the family except Becky and Daniel are killed in this manner.
- Oh, Crap!: Everyone in the family (except Aunt Helene, who couldn't care less at first, then quickly becomes the most gung-ho about killing Grace) are clearly not happy when Grace pulls out the Hide-and-Seek card. Alex, Daniel, and Becky are particularly devastated.
- Precision F-Strike: They get a few when they start the game, but the remaining Le Domas' get plenty of good ones right before they die.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: The curse of the Faustian bargain on the family implicitly polices the White Sheep of the Le Domas family as Alex mentions an uncle that refused to play and died as a result. The same applies for good people joining into the family, as Grace is totally innocent and ignorant of the potential risk of the hide-and-seek card, and Charles is implied to have been equally uninformed. By contrast, Charity and Fitch knew about the murderous history and future of the family and still joined and were not chosen to be hunted.
- Trapped in Villainy: How most of the family see themselves. They don't want to kill Grace (except maybe Aunt Helene), and some of them genuinely like her, but they believe that failing to sacrifice her will result in the death of the entire family, because of a deal none of them had a say in. Tony at one point even berates his ancestor's picture for his shitty bargaining while negotiating the Deal with the Devil.
- Unholy Matrimony: Even the members who married into the family seem to basically accept the satanism and ritual murders.
- Upper-Class Twit: Nobody in the family is a particularly effective villain, it's just they have a huge numerical advantage. The older generation is out of practice or obsessing over tradition, and the younger ones have no clue what they're doing, and Daniel displays nothing but apathy for the ritual and his family. It says something that Georgie, a young child, is more effective at hunting Grace (if only because she didn't expect him to shoot her) than a majority of the adult family members.
- Villainous Lineage: The deal with Le Bail is a generational thing. So even though an ancestor made the deal, everyone in the present suffers a horrendous fate for not upholding their side of it.
Alex Le Domas
Alex Le Domas
You fucking leave her alone!
Played By: Mark O'Brien
Grace's newly wedded husband, and does his best to help Grace escape.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: As he faces his possible death, he begs for Grace to forgive him, but she calmly requests for a divorce as he then explodes.
- Bookends: His first and lines in the movie are "I'm scared".
- Dirty Coward: It's pretty clear at the end that he will say anything to Grace to save himself from the fate shared by the rest of his family. Grace is unsympathetic to say the least.
- Face–Heel Turn: After the death of his brother and mother, he takes his place as a member of the Cult and attempts to sacrifice Grace.
- Fatal Flaw: Possessiveness. He proposed to Grace because he couldn't stand to lose her, and betrays her when she refuses to be with him anymore.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: After the rest of his family has exploded, he attempts to say he's back to being the man Grace loves after trying to sacrifice her. She throws his ring in his face, and he explodes like the rest.
- Hypocrite: Grace is understandably galled when Alex begs for mercy less than five minutes after having tried to ritualistically sacrifice her to Satan.
- If I Can't Have You…: He decides to go through with the sacrifice when he realizes, even if they both live until morning, Grace will end their relationship.
- It's All About Me: Turns on the woman he supposedly loves after he realizes their relationship has been irreparably destroyed.
- Last Words: After a long string of him ranting and begging to Grace.Grace: Oh, Alex...
Alex: Yeah?
Grace: I want a divorce.
(Explosion) - Locked Up and Left Behind: For the majority of the movie, he is handcuffed to the wooden bed frame in his old room. It takes a realistic amount of time for him to get free.
- The Paragon Always Rebels: Aunt Helene says that he was the most faithful of the cult as a child, even being able to see Mr Le Bail in his chair once. As an adult, he seems to want as little as possible to do with his family and only goes through with the ritual because of superstition. By the last act, he returns to the fold.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: He starts giving these after the rest of his family has exploded and Grace starts to walk away from him giggling.
- Poor Communication Kills: Despite fearing the ritual, he proposed to Grace because she would've left if he didn't put a ring on it already. However, as she makes clear, she would've been willing to keep "living in sin" like he initially wanted if he'd told her why he didn't want to marry her. This foreshadows his possessiveness over Grace, valuing their relationship over her well-being, and the fact that he is ultimately a believer in the curse and eventually returns to the fold.
- Thicker Than Water: Alex's Face–Heel Turn came about after watching Daniel die and then realizing Grace beat his mother to death. Seeing these two events play out back to back led to him choosing his family over Grace.
- Token Good Teammate: Is this to the Le Domas family at least in the first two acts.
- Walking Spoiler: His Face–Heel Turn in the last act of the movie.
- White Sheep: Spends much of the film as one before showing he can be as bad as the rest at the end.
Daniel Le Domas
Daniel Le Domas
Yeah. Hide-and-seek, remember?
Played By: Adam Brody
Alex's brother and Charity's husband.
- The Alcoholic: He drinks more than everyone else in the movie combined and Grace outright calls him an alcoholic when discussing him with Alex.
- Awful Wedded Life: His wife openly married him for his money and they seem to despise each other.
- Big Brother Instinct: When they were younger, he hid Alex in a closet so he wouldn't have to witness the family murder Helene's husband.
- In the modern day, Alex is the only family member he seems to have an iota of consideration for, and turning on the family to save Grace was in part for Alex's sake.
- Brutal Honesty: He makes no effort to hide his unhappiness with his marriage, his dislike of his family and general misery with his life.
- Corruption of a Minor: When he was a child, he assisted in the game with Helene's husband. This likely culminated in his current jaded attitude.
- Deadpan Snarker: While also being the most detached of the family, he does also have minor moments of snark. He is played by Adam Brody, after all.Daniel: (after seeing Grace appear from a doorway) Found her.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: He dies in Alex's arms after being shot by Charity.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Probably how he copes with being in his messed-up family.
- Foil: To Alex. While Daniel is The Unfavorite despite staying with his family, Alex is considered the golden child despite his estrangement. Daniel marries a gold digger, but at least tells her about the game whereas Alex marries for love and yet doesn't tell her about the possibility of death. To top it off, Daniel's last act was to save Grace while Alex betrays her.
- Heel–Face Turn: He eventually turns on his family and saves Grace from being sacrificed.
- Heel Realization: He already firmly believes the family is evil and doesn't deserve to go on, but is too apathetic to do much beyond not try very hard. Seeing that Georgie attempted to kill Grace and Emilie praising him for it seems to push him over the edge.
- Informed Attribute: Grace during her introductory soliloquy mentions that Daniel keeps hitting on her, but when we see Daniel on-screen with her before the game, he never once flirts with her or hits on her at all.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Cynical, detached and snarky but he does show himself to be a fundamentally decent person, even non-fatally betraying his family to help Grace escape.
- Merciful Minion: He actually does what he can to help Grace escape. He even poisons his family to buy her time to run, but is shot by Charity for trying to let her slip through their grasp.
- Mercy Lead: When he stumbles upon Grace he offers her a drink, a chat, and then allows her a "ten"-second head start, before calling his family into the study. While the camera cuts away, it's clear he's counting very slowly.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Does everything he can to let Grace escape, and is killed by Charity for it.
- Only Sane Man: What little sanity he has left. Out of all the others even Alex, he does his best to help Grace, doesn't hide how much he doesn't care for the family tradition, and even poisons his family so she can have a chance to flee.
- Redemption Equals Death: His attempt to save Grace led to his own death by his own wife.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Narrowly subverted. He spent his whole life trying to protect Alex and dies saving Grace...only for Alex to turn on Grace and nearly kill her himself, and subsequently join the family in death. Grace's survival is the only thing that keeps his life and death from being entirely meaningless.
- Stopped Caring: Even before the game, he is noticeably quieter than the rest of the family and has long since been numbed to the horror of what they're doing.Tony: Do you think this is some fucking game?!
Daniel: (beat) Yes. Hide and seek, remember? - Token Good Teammate: He ultimately proves to be this for the Le Domas family.
- The Un Favourite: While unlike Alex, he never strayed from the family, his alcoholism and apathy don't earn him favors with his parents. He later refers to himself and Emilie as the fuckups of the family, but even Emilie has her family's affection, leaving Daniel the odd man out of all three siblings.
- White Sheep: By the end of the film, he becomes this when he poisons his family in order to save Grace.
Tony Le Domas
Tony Le Domas
Do you think that this is a FUCKING game?!
Played By: Henry Czerny
The father of Alex, who at first welcomes Grace into the family and introduces her to the family game.
- Defiant to the End: As his family starts exploding, Tony shouts at Le Bail's seat that he played the game as was demanded and should be spared.Tony: I played by the rules! And I'm in control!!
(Explosion) - The Patriarch: Official head of the family.
- Parental Favoritism: Is hardly convincing in claiming to love all his children equally. He has high expectations for Alex and shows affection to Emilie, but clearly cannot stand Daniel.
- Precision F-Strike: He yells this at Daniel when he asks if he thinks what they're doing is a "fucking game."
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Most of the cast counts as this, but he is very fond of screaming that the family is "fucked."
- Smug Snake: Constantly blustering that he has everything under control and demeaning the other characters, but he's no more competent than the rest of his family and Grace easily knocks him out when it comes to hand-to-hand combat.
- This Cannot Be!: Has this reaction just before he explodes.
- Unholy Matrimony: He and Becky have the most solid and supportive marriage in the family, and he is devastated by her death.
- Villainous Breakdown: As Grace constantly slips through their fingers, he starts getting increasingly agitated at not completing the ritual and is anxious at them losing time.
Becky Le Domas
Becky Le Domas
Finally, one of our children has brought home a good one.
Played By: Andie MacDowell
The wife of Tony and mother of Alex, who seemingly welcomes Grace warmly into the family.
- Dark Action Girl: Stevens only wins by catching Grace off guard. Becky, on the other hand, actually dominates most of her fight with Grace.
- Evil Matriarch: A surprisingly layered example. She very genuinely loves her kids and seems to genuinely want to be a good mother-in-law to Grace, but she refuses to compromise on the ritual. And she's correct that Alex will choose his family over Grace.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Like Grace she smokes cigarettes but she keeps hers in a fancy carrying case, unlike Grace who just keeps hers in the pack.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Having not actually practiced with a bow and arrow in years leads to her missing Grace even at close range.Becky: (beat) In my defense, it's been a while.
- Kick the Dog: With only minutes left to kill Grace, Becky tells her that she "doesn't deserve a family".
- Mama Bear: She is very protective of her children, even if that means murdering an innocent woman whom she likes.
- Not So Above It All: Sharply curtails her husband when he goes on a cursing fit, only to immediately mutter "Holy dick."
- Obnoxious In-Laws: Most openly to Fitch, but she tells Grace that she's the first person one of her children has brought home that she's actually liked.
- Pet the Dog: During Grace's wedding, she reassures her that she'll make a great addition to the family and that she was in Grace's shoes when she married into the family.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Has the appearance of a restrained, elegant, and cultured woman, but is the most level-headed and proactive of the family members in carrying out the game.
- Surrounded by Idiots: She's obviously frustrated by the impotent rages of her husband and the incompetence of the rest of her family.
- Team Mom: A dark version.
- The Straight and Arrow Path: Uses a bow during the game and is implied to have been the one to shoot Helene's bridegroom in the previous game. Though thirty years without practice means she fails to hit Grace from less than twenty feet away.
- Unholy Matrimony: With Tony.
Helene Le Domas
Helene Le Domas
You'll have to hide better than that.
Played By: Nicky Guadagni
Tony's sister and Alex, Daniel and Emile's aunt.
- Ax-Crazy: A literal example, considering her weapon: she's an old battle ax with an old battle ax.
- Broken Bird: A rather dark version. In the prologue, she begged her family to spare her new husband Charles from the ritual. But by the movie proper, she's the most eager to kill Grace and most fanatic about serving Le Bail.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has plenty, especially showing how little she cares for some of her family members.Helene: Brown-haired niece [Emilie], you continue to exist.
- Death Glare: Her first appearance has her giving Grace a terrifyingly intense glare. It seems to be her default facial expression.
- Freudian Excuse: Having her husband sacrificed in the prologue—thus immediately widowing her—probably started her descent into the terrifying, bloodthirsty woman she is in the present day.
- Jerkass: Even prior to trying to hunt and sacrifice her, she was unwelcoming and hostile to Grace and isn't any nicer to the other family members.
- Last Words: "I know it is too late, but I will not fail you again...The girl still dies!!"
(Explosion) - The Mourning After: Helen has never remarried after the death of her husband, Charles who died during the last game of Hide and Seek.
- Taking You with Me: Once the sun has risen she's fully aware that Grace has won and the family is doomed. She tries to kill her one last time anyway and likely is the first to get blown up because of it.
- Yandere: In her husband's absence, she seems to have become one to Mr. Le Bail instead.
Emilie Le Domas
Emile Le Domas
Why does this always happen to me?! COME ON!
Played By: Melanie Scrofano
Alex and Daniel's younger sister and wife of Fitch and mother of their two sons, Georgie and Gabe.
- Addled Addict: In one scene she can be seen stuffing pills into her mouth and she even snorts cocaine.
- Affably Evil: She's very sweet and outgoing and seems genuinely happy to welcome Grace to the family and for them to form a bond but still participates in the effort to hunt her with no hesitation.
- Daddy's Girl: Her parents seem to dote on her more than her brothers, as Tony gently coddles her as she cries in frustration over accidentally killing another maid and Becky assures her that she "doesn't suck".
- The Ditz: While none of the Le Domas family are particularly competent Emilie is probably the only one who can be considered outright dumb, whether via her drug use, natural cluelessness or most likely a combination of both. She manages to kill two maids via sheer recklessness and more than once actually forgets her gun.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Most of the other family members seem to hold a bit of disdain towards her. When the hunt begins, they only become increasingly frustrated at her constant screw-ups.
- Genki Girl: When she first meets Grace, she's giggling and excited to have another sister-in-law, although some of that could have been the cocaine.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Due to being high on cocaine, she misses Grace with several shots despite being less than twenty feet away. Her projectiles do have an unerring knack of hitting maids in the face though.
- Last Words: FUCK! HIIIIIDE! HIIIIDE!
- Mama Bear: One of her only serious moments is telling Daniel that her kids don't deserve to die, and she dies trying futilely to protect them from Le Bail's curse.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: Is goofy and immature, goes along with hunting Grace and one of the few family members to score a kill.
- Spoiled Sweet: Her parents are most openly loving to her and she is the nicest and most friendly out of Grace's in-laws.
- Spoiled Brat: Despite her being Spoiled Sweet and kind to Grace before the ritual begins, she is cruel enough to participate in the Grace hunt, unlike her brothers, never attempts to rescue Grace and shows Never My Fault and It's All About Me tendencies when she whines about her bad luck when she kills two maids, showing no remorse for either of their deaths.
- Trigger-Happy: She tends to shoot a lot without considering her surroundings, which ends up killing two maids because of this.Daniel: Did she look like she was wearing a giant white wedding dress, Emilie?!
Charity Le Domas
Charity Le Domas
You know where I came from, and what my life was like before.
Played By: Elyse Levesque
The wife of Daniel Le Domas.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When facing Le Bail's wrath, she begs for her life, going back on her previous claim she'd rather die than lose the Le Domas fortune. It doesn't work.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Backstabbing coward she may be, but it's strangely sad watching her beg to go home before Le Bail kills her. Even Grace looks at her with something resembling pity before Charity blows up.
- Awful Wedded Life: Seeing as she openly married Daniel for his money the two also don't seem to get along.
- Combat Pragmatist: Brought a modern revolver, which she uses in the final act after ditching her antique harpoon.
- Dark and Troubled Past: While the details are scarce, Charity apparently came from desperate straits, hence her eagerness to literally sell her soul for wealth.
- Desperate Plea for Home: In stark contrast to her earlier remark that she'd rather die than live without the family's money, when the le Domas family begin dying en masse due to not sacrificing Grace in time, Charity screams that she wants to go home.
- Evil Counterpart: To Grace. Both came from poor backgrounds and married into the Le Domas family, but Charity only did it for the money while Grace genuinely loves Alex and just wants to be part of a family.
- Freudian Excuse: She came from a very troubled background and is desperate to avoid going back, saying she'd rather die than return to her old life.
- Gold Digger: Pretty openly married Daniel for his money, and is extremely invested in keeping her position even though she doesn't seem to care for her husband.
- Ironic Name: She's named Charity, but married into the family out of greed and kills Daniel to maintain her riches.
- Last Words: "Mr. Le Bail, I take it- I take it back! (whimpers) I wanna go home!
(Explosion) - Pet the Dog: Despite being hostile towards Grace and thinking lowly of her, she had a tiny moment like this when she happily shares with Grace the game she was given when she pulled her card, which was chess.
- Rags to Riches: She claims to have come from a very poor and troubled background and will do anything not to go back.
- Til Murder Do Us Part: Charity kills Daniel for trying to let Grace escape.
- You Are What You Hate: She looks down on Grace for being trashy and unsuited to the upper-class world of the rich but is later revealed to have come from a fairly impoverished background herself.
Fitch Bradley
Fitch Bradley
Don't be a bitch, Fitch.
Played By: Kristian Bruun
The husband of Emilie.
- Bumbling Dad: Roughly fills the archetype, as he's shown to be juvenile and only edging out Emilie in competence because he fails to kill anyone. He spends most of the film on his phone, either texting or googling how to use the crossbow he was handed.
- Failed a Spot Check: He doesn't notice Grace right outside the window he's leaning against because he's too busy texting.
- It's Probably Nothing: He hears Grace and Alex talking in the service corridors via a ventilation shaft but promptly ignores it to focus on his phone.
- Last Words: "Ah, fuck... (turns to Tony) I think you were right."
(Explosion) - Nouveau Riche: Though he lacks the class of his in-laws, he's not a Gold Digger like Charity and is thus not nearly as invested in the ritual to maintain the family's wealth.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Fitch suggests he and Charity simply cut and run when things start getting difficult.
- Reckless Gun Usage: He is extremely cavalier with the crossbow he is given, taking almost no precautions with it. At one point Becky tells him to point the damn thing away from her face.
Georgie
Georgie
Played By: Liam MacDonald
Fitch and Emilie's eldest son.
- Children Are Innocent: Nope. When he spots Grace hiding and she begs him for mercy, he shoots her.
- Death of a Child: Although the movie does move him and his brother Gabe out of frame before they explode and splatter the doorway.
- Flat Character: He isn't given much development beyond showing that every Le Domas is okay with murder. Daniel's Heel Realization is cemented when he hears Georgie tried to kill Grace because that's what everyone else was doing.
Other Characters
Stevens
Stevens
Played By: John Ralston
The Le Domas family butler.
- Battle Butler: Comparatively; he does a better job hunting Grace than his employers, but she still manages to take him off-guard more than once.
- Don't Celebrate Just Yet: After Grace has burned his face, choked him out, and stolen his car, Stevens manages to recapture her. He proceeds to blare the 1812 Overture while on a video call with the family, loud enough he cannot hear them warning him that Grace had woken up.
- Facial Horror: Gets scalded in the face by a teapot smashed against his head by Grace.
- Fatal Flaw: His love of classical music. After capturing Grace, he plays the 1812 Overture full blast in the car, so he doesn't notice that Grace is awake and breaking free of her bonds until it's too late.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Downplayed. He displays a cooler head on his shoulders than most of the family, but that doesn't say much. He's proactive in searching the grounds for Grace, but gets choked out in a fight with her, then later fails to notice her shaking off the tranquilizers he shot her with until she causes their car to crash. Essentially, he's only competent in comparison to how staggeringly inept the Le Domas family themselves are.
- Undying Loyalty: Unflinchingly loyal to the Le Domas family.
The Maids
The Maids
Played By: Hannake Talbot (Clara), Celine Tsai (Tina), and Daniela Barbosa (Dora)
A trio of maids who serve the Le Domas family.
- All There in the Script: Clara and Dora (the first and third maids to die respectively) are named in the film, but Tina's (the second maid to die) name is only shown in the credits.
- Badly Battered Babysitter: The very first maid to die wasn't participating in the hunt at all—she just was looking for Georgie after he wandered off.
- Flat Character: They have very few lines and little characterization beyond getting accidentally killed.
- French Maid: While not wearing the costume, the maids are dressed in slinky black outfits. The third one even claims to not be a real maid, simply a dancer that Tony Le Domas hired to wear that costume.
- I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Two of them are killed by Emilie in short order.
- Innocent Bystander: The first maid was simply trying to find Georgie so she could send him back to bed.
- Instant Death Bullet: Averted. The first maid to die is twitching for a few minutes after being shot in the face, and the second maid's gurgling interrupts the family's conversation until Aunt Helene finishes her off.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- When the last maid attempts to rat out Grace, the dumbwaiter accidentally gets activated and she gets crushed.
- The second maid gets a crossbow bolt to the face rushing into the study to tell the family she had seen Grace.
- Subverted in a case of Never Trust a Trailer. The first maid in the trailer is implied to be searching for Grace, only to be shot dead for her efforts. In reality, she was an Innocent Bystander who was just looking for Georgie, not Grace.
- Locked Out of the Loop: None of them had any idea about the "family tradition" before the wedding night, to the point that one of them initially thought the family was hunting them as well.
- We Have Reserves: Their deaths are treated essentially as momentary annoyances by the family.
Mister Le Bail
Mister Le Bail
Played By: James Vanderbilt
A man who earned the undying respect of the Le Domas family for helping Victor Le Domas build the family's gaming dominion.
- Affably Evil: He gives Faustian bargains to families, giving them riches in exchange for their souls and an occasional human sacrifice. From what little else is known, he doesn't appear malicious at all. The only people he directly kills are Asshole Victims, and he explicitly shows Grace considerable respect.
- Creator Cameo: He's played by one of the film's producers, James Vanderbilt.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He may be the demonic benefactor behind the Le Domas family, but he plays by the rules. When the Le Domas's lose the game, he kills them all but leaves Grace completely unharmed, even going so far as to openly nod his head to her in respect. In particular, Helene is the first to go, likely because she was still trying to kill Grace despite the game being over.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He is the reason that Grace is being hunted, but he does not actually do anything in the story itself until the very end, when he kills the Le Domas family for failing to live up to their end of the bargain.
- He Was Right There All Along: The one time that he is clearly seen is at the very end of the film, right before the entire Le Domas estate burns down. As it turns out, he was sitting at the head of the family table over the course of the entire night.
- Louis Cypher: "Le Bail" is an anagram for Belial, one of the names of the Devil.
- Orcus on His Throne: He's a demon with the power to literally make human beings explode into blood and gore, but his primary villainous activity is making Faustian bargains with families.
- Real After All: For most of the film, it's left up in the air if his curse is actually real, or if the Le Domases are just superstitious. We find out that he is in fact very real, in graphic fashion.
- Satan: The Le Domas family's ritual sacrifice, for Le Bail's continuing patronage, ends with a cry of "Hail Satan", although it isn't 100% clear if Le Bail is Satan himself or merely a powerful senior demon.
- Villain Killer: He takes out the entire Le Domas clan. The only ones he doesn't kill are Daniel, who was shot by Charity, and Becky because she's already dead at Grace's hands.
- Villain Respect: When Grace wins the game of hide and seek and the family dies, an image of Le Bail momentarily appears in his designated chair, nodding to Grace.
- Walking Spoiler: The fact that he's Real After All is a twist, and the subject of the main gag of the ending.
- Would Hurt a Child: Emilie's children also die, same as the rest of the Le Domas family who survived up until that point.
