Ready or Not (2019) KILL COUNT

Welcome to the death

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the victims in all of our favorite horror movies. I'm James Agee, nice and today we're looking at the release of Ready or Not in

2019

, Ready or Not, it's full of heightened characters and dark comedy as needed. the idea of ​​unpleasant in-laws on a whole new level the woman about to inherit a new family is Grace played by Samara weaving the bubbly star of the nanny and lest you forget Samara knitting Hugo Weaving's niece is Australian which It means she's great at all of these roles while doing an impeccable American accent.

Grace's weapon of choice in this scenario is whatever she can get her hands on. Grace marries Alex Lei Tomas, whose relatives are stinking rich and full of evil eyes. His wealth began when his ancestor. A 19th century playmate made a Faustian deal with a mysterious figure named LaBelle and because of that arrangement, the side masses have a tradition whenever new people join the family, all they have to do is play a game on their wedding night at the end. You're either part of the family or you're dead, I mean it's one of the two so flip that coin thank you since this plus side ritual started so long ago that the current benefactors aren't even sure if it's real or No, that uncertainty not only adds an air of mystery to the film, but it's also a great way to create conflict between all these bratty, petulant blue bloods, although some viewers found it clever or not overly comical.

I think it does a great job of combining action and humor and maintaining a consistent tone throughout. seemingly fun than the next one he's sometimes compared to, but that makes sense, these characters are much less realistic than their counterparts in that film, which, to be clear, is not a bad thing here, the cast feels Perfectly in harmony, each player brings a unique and punctual touch. sense of humor to his character and guiding the performers were co-directors Matt Batten Le Open and Tyler Jillette who, together with producer Chad Vaya, form Radio Silence, a film collective responsible for a couple of horror films and one of the VHS segments. which collectively are radio silence.

I had a great time watching it,

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or not, even if the trailer spoiled a lot of it, if you're thinking about watching it before this

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count, I recommend pausing this video and playing along, it's a lot of thought and it's also a one of those movies where I can't include all the funny lines because there are too many. um, the music room downstairs, ah yeah, a totally normal room, anyway, let's find out how many corpses it takes to pay. for a honeymoon and get to the murders, the film begins with the face of the devil man on the cover of a game, the Belles gambit, we find ourselves in a mansion with many games on display and it is through these hallways that the young brothers Daniel and Alex side by side run frantically until young Alex is placed in a closet too high, a guy named Charles comes across an injured Daniel and asks the young man to help him hello, oh that doesn't help Daniel, At least he doesn't help Charles, as he is surrounded by masked figures as his new wife Helene shouts at Charles to shoot him with a crossbow and then drag him to die.

We can't see his actual death behind these doors on the Maas side, but just look at Helene's grim expression 30 years later, that hidden little boy, Alex. It's a Marriott now and today is his wedding day. He is marrying Grace, who grew up in foster care and is eager to inherit a family. Too bad she thinks the Massa side hates partly because she and Alex have only been together for a year and a year. half tells her that it doesn't matter, even though his family is rich, they stink too, that's why he's been separated from them for the last two years, in fact, his family sucks like hell, Grace, I'm sure he wants to join.

I'm giving you one out right now no thanks and well go ahead okay honor your call the only side Alex likes even a little more is his older brother Daniel played by Adam Brody last seen time in The Kills, wasted on scream 4. Daniels has a minor. case of idiot older brother syndrome and a milder case of alcoholism, but at least it's a praise of grace, you know, ruined. I mean, that's a compliment that can't be said for the rest of the masses on the side who stared Gers at the bride every time they're not openly expressing their displeasure.

He could have done much better. Anta leans here. She looks especially grumpy, but you can't blame her. I mean, she had to come from the cube to get here. Alex's mother, Becky, he played Andie. MacDowell is kinder to Grace than most of the other family members. Becky assures her future daughter-in-law that she too comes from a lower class and married into all of this, allowing her to offer her some unique advice. yes, the wedding itself is certainly nice and so, Alex and Grace are husband and wife that night before they can be consummated Alex tells Grace that they have a traditional detective at midnight you have to play a game, it's something we do when someone new joins the family it will be a randomly drawn game and Grace doesn't even have to win it she just has to play after that she will be a layman Tomas Stephens, the family butler, plays Grace in the music room where the rest are of the family is waiting besides Alex's older brother Daniel, his mom Becky and his aunt Helene, this family also includes Alex's cocaine-addled younger sister Emily, her husband Fitch Bradley, they are too much shit, little kids Hellspawn, Daniel's prim wife, Charity, and of course the family patriarch, Alex's father Tony, all vary in their sentimentality.

Harleen, it's nice to see you, redhead, nice, you continue to exist, they head to the super special game room, a living legacy of her family's ancestry. Tony tells the story of how his great-grandfather Victor founded a playing card sales company during the Civil War and how later generations of side bosses expanded the business to sporting goods board games and professional sports teams. I'm a big board game fan myself, so it was great to see the attention. and the care given to the fictional products of the Massa side, the boxes represent board games made by the family throughout all eras, from the Victorian era to the 1960s to the present, were created by the art director assistant Laura Hawk Stan and I'm really impressed by how credible everyone is. look I mean yowzers wowzers Tony tells Grace that Lado Mass' success started with the benefactor, a guy named LaBelle who met great-grandpa Victor on a boat once, LaBelle owned this puzzle box, yeah, and that one cunning victim who could not solve.

But Victor discovered how the Cenobite telephone worked and, in return, Laval financed his business projects. Since then, new Ledo masses are introduced into the family in a process that begins by placing a blank card in a ballast box, then drawing the car and the lord. . LaBelle will tell us what game to play the result can be almost anything I have chess I have a spinster excuse me what the hell is a spinster and when Grace draws her card she says hide and seek what a shame she doesn't say Do a shit at the face of your pants game Alex would have won Tony immediately explains the rules for her to hide anywhere inside the house and after counting to 100 the family members will try to find her and don't worry about that safety. cameras Grace we never use cameras, we always play games, since they didn't play them in great-grandfather's time, with that she is very high, let's put on some background music for the festivities while Grace runs, we can see the side better.

Maas Resident, much of which was filmed at the Parkwood estate in Oshawa Ontario, which was also used for a small movie called Billy Madison. I hear it's quite quotable, other parts of the mansion were interpreted by Casa Loma, a 20th century castle in Toronto that was also the Xavier School for Gifted Students Chelsea and I visited Casa Loma when we were in Toronto for SummerSlam and I highly recommend a visit if ever you are there, take the audio tour if you can. Casa Loma and the other filming locations play very well with radio silences. practical approach to film aesthetics.

I love how old all the money looks, from the polished wood to the golden glow of all the candles everywhere. Production designer Andrew Stern helped achieve the perfect warm look and all this attention to detail as well as the art design. Help prepare or not one of my favorite horror movies of the year while Grace hides in a dumbwaiter Tony distributes weapons to all the retards. Amasa Helene gets a battle ax while most of the others leave, though sadly none of them, the peacekeepers, speak any better. than the crossbow with which the tone is jammed when that incredible hide-and-seek song ends, these perfectly defined characters line up to kick the movie and act for fun and games, here I come, Alex does not participate and instead, after everyone the others are gone. to look for Grace, he takes some Serbian fares around the house back to her room.

Grace gets bored waiting in the elevator and also returns to the room where Alex tells her to shut up and hides her when they hear one of the maids approaching her. The newlywed couple watches as a Maas side maid named Clara is shot right in the face. She had brushed against real girls. The shot was fired by little sister Emily, who thought Clara had made a big mistake. Her family members roundly reprimanded her for doing so. mutilate her, she needs to be alive for the ritual, it takes Clara a minute, but she finally dies leaving Tony and Helene to deal with her body outraged to learn what is at stake in this game that has left Grace in shock and, in the tunnels, Alex explains that I am not. 't seek' was the only bad card she could draw in any other game, as if chess had been played normally, but the hide and seek card starts a ritual in which her family must murder her before dawn and there was no way to avoid it. .

This drawing a card out of a box of bells thing is the only way they could have gotten married there are rules you can't just run away you have to have the wedding here and you have to play the damn game Grace is rightly angry about that and for not warning her about This possibility and Alex's excuse exposes his selfishness if he told you unless, uh, yeah, he'll probably assure her that they're going to get through this together and send her down the service tunnel toward the kitchen, well, he's headed to the kitchen. security. room to unlock all the doors, you'll probably have a hard time losing some of that tool grace upgrade, just like with the production and art design, the costume department on this film was on point, designer Avery Bluest adapted each outfit to the character's personality like a sensible column dress for practical Becky or a tuxedo with high collars like the Godfather for patriarch Tony, although his best work was with Grace's wedding dress, which acts as a road map of quotes from events that have happened to us.

I wanted to create something that had a lot of coverage, texture and length, so we were able to remove a lot in several different stages. I think there are about seventeen versions. The continually degrading condition of Grace's dress is another big factor in the film and is even a bit symbolic, as Chelsey and I discussed. our podcast review of dead meat at the end of the service tunnel Grace takes the wrong door and puts her in the crosshairs of her new in-laws. Literally, it's a good thing Emily is shit. Melody's script. Otto is incredibly amazing in this movie. age, she is another Killcount graduate, having been in the saw six as part of the shotgun merry-go-round trap.

Grace runs away from them, but with everything still closed, Daniel ends up finding her in the playroom, just like when he was a kid. Daniel has to do it. decides whether to help or not and just like when he was a child he decides to inform his family where his prey is, but at least adult Daniel really likes Grace and his biggest conflict is willing to give her a 10 second head start over Nada. After Daniel calls the others, his wife, Charity, is the first to arrive and she blames him for letting Grace go. They have a great little scene where even Charity, this relatively peripheral character, is given a backstory and justification for why she's so willing to go.

On top of all this, you know where I come from and what my life was like before the entire cast was my absolute favorite part of this movie, especially since they are all such active charities after Elise Levesque is also excellent in that episode of pilgrim from Into the Dark that we reviewed on this year's Thanksgiving podcast, the rest of the family gathers and Fitch says that he hasn't been able to figure out his crossbow even with the help ofYouTube videos by the film's writers Guy Busic and Ryan Murphy. No, it's not Ryan Murphy, who gives the gun to Emily, who immediately discharges a bolt of lightning into another maid's mouth, just like Clara, the second maid, Tina, doesn't die immediately and Helene has to pull the poor thing out. girl of her misery with her battle.

The ax would constantly appear in the path which Becky suggests is that the family used their security cameras and Toni immediately proves willing to change the rules of the traditional game, meaning that it is not tradition, that he was born before the cameras. , that she did something stupid, ah, so this is a Constructionist family on the loose, ah, on the way to the kitchen, GRA stops to arm herself like a big game hunter and while this amazing soldier bride may be the picture that you saw on the movie poster, don't expect Grace to immediately take to that person.

Jesus, as brave and resilient as she is, Grace is not like Aaron on your neck and she shouldn't have to be, but that's why she forgets to load her gun before trying to shoot her way through the kitchen door. Grace is forced to hide. When butler Stevens enters the kitchen after Alex finally opens all the doors, no grace is taken, we load the gun and aim it at Stephen in an effort to get him to drop it, although he won't get out of the way and a time. again the gun fails to fire the ammo its just an exhibition hey yeah well so was this kettle and it seemed to work fine.

A blind game. He's swiping, blocking Grace so she can't get out of it and she ends up running back to the dumbwaiter where she finds the third maid, Dora, hiding. Fear Grace tries to help her, but Dora calls on the masses on the side to put an end to all this madness. She accidentally hits the dumbwaiter's lamb and the doors slam so hard that she

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s her walking through, that's what you can tell this house was like. built a hundred years ago they just don't give dumbwaiter doors that same kind of bone crunching gets stronger during all this alex has been having a great time man after breaking all the security cameras and getting into a serious fight with his dad , finds Tony is very disappointed with Sol, although Helene tells him not to worry.

Alex was born to lead the family and why he is the only one of us who has seen Mr. Nabil in his chair he knows how difficult it must be to play hide and seek for him too because in case you haven't figured it out or simply forgotten , Helene was the girlfriend at the beginning whose husband took the letter out of hiding and wounded her. Grace is determined not to end up like that guy and is even willing to fall a few stories if it means getting out of here alive. She reverses the wedding on her way through the backyard and she runs as fast as she can, but a flashlight beam cuts through her. forces her to hide in the stable, it turns out the seeker is just one of Emily and she complains about the kids to get Chico to come off hi Georgie, unfortunately for Grace, Georgie pulls out a gun and it lands on her jaw after a moment of shock , Grace punches the boy in the face. and it hits a mile high, yeah, Grace, watch out for that goat, though, hey, man, I told you to watch out for that.

Now you're in a grouse pit full of drugs. Oh, hello, I'm bones of people, oh, hey, it's Charles Halloween's late husband, he always. he warns Bolt very well despite having a hole in one and Grace climbs out of the hole, leading to what may be the most painful scene in the movie to watch. Look now she sticks out there, yeah Grace isn't that

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or not, here she comes. Oh my god, it hurts to see it, but she overcomes the pain and goes out there okay for her after wearing a wedding dress and the curses of the boy who shot her grace, he is ready and goes out in front of her. estate gate, it takes some effort and brave resolve, but eventually Grace escapes the grounds of the Ledo mosque.

It just stinks for her that the local drivers aren't eager to help Stevens in the stalking race, she heads into in the woods, backing into the house Tony is becoming more and more worried about the increasing possibility of Grace surviving the night he believes that if she does, the rest of the family will die even though Daniels is not there. convinced that the curse is legitimate. Yeah, I didn't see Daniel and Emily. they put on, they made cleanup easy and after throwing their bodies into the goat pit, they find Georgie right where Grace left him with her fist.

Emily says she's proud of him for trying to kill Grace. Daniel experiences something different than crying. Stevens finds Grace on the other side of a small wooded area, but after a brief fight, Grace manages to use her girdle to strangle the guy, then gets in her car and drives away, too bad you didn't touch him twice because if you did, would have done, he would not have been able to do it. He reports the car as stolen, as it is a fancy car, and turns it off remotely. A security operator named Justin (voiced by Nat Faxon Stephens) catches up with Grace and gives her a dose of dark juice to knock her out.

He informs the family that he's approaching with the payload, but the obsequious bastard is too busy playing Beethoven to notice when Grace comes to after a few kicks to the face. Stevens drives the car off the road and flips it over. The violent crash is shown in reverse slow motion. They shoot and when they finally finish, the ignited spit is dead, Grace crawls out of the accident and is immediately found by Daniel and, although she begs for help once again appealing to his good boy nature, Daniel says that he is too weak to help her and of reluctantly hits.

Grace has been recaptured with just an hour to go until dawn, so if Alex wants to help her, she better work faster with those cops. She hides the prison break when her mother Becky comes in to tell her that even though she likes Grace, they have to protect her family. Alex says screw the family, they're weird and they made him slaughter goats when he was a kid. Grace is much calmer and doesn't make him cut any paths for the goats, so he would rather be with her than her family, but Becky says no. Believe it and she knows deep down that he's still mommy's little boy.

The ritual is about to begin, so the family members each prepare in their own special way. Don't be a bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch. I think it was actually an improvisation. by actress Kristen Broom I know from Orphan Black, which had a ridiculously good first season, the final ritual preparation is placing LaBelle's box in front of the bales, the chair empty, Grace then wakes up to find herself tied to a table pentagrams, everyone around you looks like you. standard horror movie called see also the curse of michael myers.slc i'm doing fine until everyone's tummy starts to hurt hmm spitting blood general fatigue oh i know what your problem is yeah that's what daniel was going to say has poisoned his family to help Grace escape, though not enough to kill them, while he says a little googol shit word to her in the hallway for a week, but they'll be fine on the way out, they're stopped by Charing, who holds them up. a gun, she's screwed. on that sweet side of masked cattle, so when her husband doesn't back down, she shoots him in the neck, things go ammo crazy, so I'll list them here real quick.

Charity is pistol whipped. Tony is whipped by Lantern. A fire in a house. started and there is a bow and arrow attempt by Becky in my defense. Some time has passed and Alyx breaks free and goes downstairs to find Daniel bleeding out in the hallway despite his urgent pleas for Daniel not to die, that's exactly what her older brother did. Isn't Alex excited about losing a favorite member of his family? And now that I think about it, he's not even sure who to blame for Grace's fights with her mother-in-law, who is determined to keep her family safe, but with a little help from the Bells Box Grace turns this night into a wedding. and for the funeral his six funerals.

What's up calm down even though Grace Becky was only doing this for her family haha ​​yeah you fuck her damn family. It's in this killer state that Alex finds it cool when they last saw her. These newlyweds were still planning to escape together, but now things are a little bloodier and a lot more complicated between them, it was better not, ma'am, probably not. Greece never says that, but something like that is a response from her. Alex puts his hands around her. his face and calls his family, you knew his betrayal would happen eventually, but you still feel terrible for Grace when it's almost as horrible as Tony's meals, when he finds his wife's body with the son almost up, there's no time to set the mansion fire this ritual has to end so gather the children and hold the bride we need to lift Rosemary's baby in this bitch with the final salute Satan Alex goes to stab grapes but is able to free himself enough to take them on her shoulder instead, one banshee scream later and Grace is able to run out enough time to score a countout victory because it's daytime, motherfuckers, it's better to hide or write, right?

Are you supposed to go out to dinner? It had nothing to say. for yourself and visit LaBelle I can do it all is shit shit or not Helene still missed that murder so she's going to kill Grace anyway oh shit the curse was real she must have gotten stuck in traffic or something Thus begins the search of the hide-and-seek to play while the curse of the bells spreads to the rest of the family, the rookies go first with fish and then with charity that explodes like grains of blood, followed by Emily and her two children, although that happens Tastefully off-screen, Grace begins to laugh as the curse catches up. with Toni: would you find it so funny that she could snort?

Is it a sudden ending? Is it a little unsatisfactory? No, after all, the curse was proven to be real. It's also cool that these deaths were at least partially done for practical effects. blood and guts flew on chroma green bleachers and the actors and explosions were shot with small meat rifles during the off-screen deaths, they were able to use large meat cannons filled with fake blood and mashed bananas, the entire cast. He seemed to have a good time with the scene and not just because the fake blood tasted like candy. The first thing Christian asked was if he could put some in my mouth and I told him: oh no, don't worry, it's not like that. toxic if there is and he says no, no, I want to put it in my mouth because I want to do something where I spit it out, okay and that was it.

I think the fourth day we were shooting and I was like, oh, we're going to be okay, it really looks like Radio Silence did a fun and effective shoot for this movie, so kudos to them and their early leadership. Alex is the one who stays the longest and tries to get Grace to keep this, but she's just done with this shit, he's the last one. side more to explode leaving Grace alone with nothing but blood on her face unless maybe she's not alone he Hogan I alone Heaven dance fuck right in the original script although Grace died in it and it was radio silence who wrote a 12 page alternate ending to please the crowd and go out and have fun, no, I'm glad the producers agreed to do it even though it meant a lot more work.

Grace's hard-fought success here feels more congruent with the tone of the film, as does the fact that the film ends. with a joke what happened to you in-laws, how many rich in-laws couldn't stand it when they left, let's find out, oh my god, why is he playing? I haven't even had my wedding yet, am I hiding? Or I'm writing whether fifteen people died ready or not, and with eight men out of every seven women, the victims were split almost evenly with a runtime of 95 minutes that left us with one death on average every six and a third minutes.

Give him the golden chainsaw to kill everyone who exploded at the end. It's a solid fact and a great climax to everything. This curse is a real question. Great job on those deaths, Mr. LaBelle doll, the dumbest murder scene will be for Dora, the third maid died in the dumb. Wayne felt like it came out of nowhere and a century-old building or not. I'm skeptical that those doors can just crush it and that's it. or didn't come out in

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and is a great example of how lively the horror genre is when it comes to original ideas, sure there are plenty of remakes and sequels but we'll still have cool stuff like this pretty regularly next week, is it Chapter two sacred?

Shit, but until then I'm James, on my knees, this is the death count. Thank you very much for seeing this police officer murdered. I want to thank some sponsors like Jabby White Ty McCandless Deon Peschel acai Patrick Fitzgerald Poe explicit and Betsy Henderson if you stop by. the death count and watch the movie first let me know in the comments also make sure to check out the dead meat subtitle it's a lot of fun there and you also get behind the scenes info like showtimes and stuff thank you all be good. people