Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
Notable Cast: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Henry
Czerny
Horror and comedy are two great tastes that taste great
together. In a broad sense, it’s because they rely on the same psychological
concepts to play out. They’re both about the building of tension and lean on
resolving that stress in a surprising way. Ready Or Not enters a long
lineage of this sub-genre and does so in a fun way. Perhaps not wholly unique,
but it’s fun and it has style. It draws a specific line juxtaposing a gore
heavy, violent and hard “R” slasher sensibility with a sardonic, low-key, borderline
disaffected sense of humor and then rides that line for nearly all its worth
before getting out and walking away. In other words, it’s a pretty perfect
movie for the end of the summer and wonderful counter-programming to the
standard August dumping ground fare.