It is genuine horror with a touch of black comedy and social satire, which proceeded to skewer class, privilege and SES with the mildly rebellious Ready or Not. The movie is about a bride, called Samara Weaving, who meets death and her new family on her wedding night. In the middle of the motion picture, the darkness is added and then merged with the humor where the entire motifs of the movie revolves around the stress and pressure of working class movies and the humor and the female parody involved in portraying an unrealistic model.
Weaving is magnificent turning from the stupid pretty bride to the wild woman who saves her daughter and a company of great and bizarre characters including andie MacDowell. The artificial locations, quite fantastique and creepy in equal measures, combined with movement in camera shots increase the pictures’ affective charges. The score works at creating tension the pace is good and the editing keeps the viewers interested.
But there is more to ‘Ready or Not’ than thrills and spills: the ethos of the hunted as normalised; acceptance of the other ; even the cardinal virtues of successfully achieving leadership roles. It can be enjoyed as a movie, as a roller coaster, as a piece of art and yet when the movie ends a person can sit basically and ponder how one would have to fight for the next ‘night’ for the rest of your life.
