Fortunately, her pursuers - who last played this particular game a couple of decades ago - aren’t a crackerjack squad of assassins. And you thought drunk uncles’ long-winded champagne toasts were a high price to pay for a storybook wedding.Īs soon as we’re beyond scenes of explanation and panicked disbelief, Grace is racing through the hallways of the locked-tight mansion, trying to dodge the crossbows, axes and antique firearms the family has trained on her. Or it could be a version of Hide and Seek in which one hider (that’d be Grace) must stay alive until dawn while everyone else tries to kill her.
Any person marrying into the family must, at midnight on her wedding night, play a randomly selected game with everyone else.
Then we learn that this family, deeply superstitious about the origins of its fortune, has a peculiar initiation ritual. Given how far subtle satire gets you these days, that’s probably a smart move. have stirred up enough phony controversy to scare a nervous studio into cancelling The Hunt, the station’s one-time corporate cousins at Fox Searchlight are unveiling one of the bloodiest visions of class warfare this side of The Purge? A nasty little cat-and-mouser about a filthy-rich clan that will happily kill outsiders to protect its inherited wealth, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s Ready or Not is not exactly subtle in its assertion that the rich are fundamentally different from the rest of us. How odd is it that, just as Fox News and its ventriloquist dummy in D.C.
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