Le Bail briefly appears and gives Grace a slight head nod, and she walks out of the burning manor just as the police arrives. Despite Grace having won the game Helene attempts to attack her but suddenly explodes midstride, with the rest of the family exploding soon after, including Alex after he fails to convince Grace to forgive him. The le Domases brace for death, but nothing happens. Grace breaks free from the ritual table, just as the sun rises. Realizing that she will never trust him and will almost certainly leave him once she escapes, he subdues her to complete the ritual. In the ongoing chaos, the mansion is set on fire, and Grace is attacked by Becky, whom she beats to death with Le Bail's box.Īlex escapes his restraints and goes to find Grace, but she pulls away from him. Charity shoots Daniel in the neck after he attempts to protect Grace, leaving him to bleed to death as Grace runs away. The le Domases prepare to complete the ritual sacrafice, however they are incapacitated after Daniel poisoned them with a non-lethal dose of hydrochloric acid in the ritual cup. Daniel, nearby the crash, captures Grace after realizing that his father is secretly watching. As he is driving Grace back to the house she awakens and attacks him, causing the car to crash and kill him. Grace is pursued into the forest by Stevens, even though she fights him off she is eventually captured by him. She escapes and makes it through the front gate. She knocks him out but is startled by a goat and falls into a pit filled with the corpses of the le Domases' previous sacrifices. Grace runs to the stables where Georgie shoots her in the hand. Grace is seen by a third maid, but the maid accidentally crushes herself in a dumbwaiter when she yells for the family. Alex is restrained by Daniel and Tony after he attacks the latter. She, in turn, splatters the hot tea he was preparing on his face and runs away. Grace's escape is blocked by the family butler, Stevens. She is discovered by Daniel, who is disillusioned with his family and gives her a head start before alerting the others, in the chaos Emilie accidentally kills another maid. With the mansion locked down, Alex disables the security system to allow Grace to escape. The deadly game was last played by Helene's husband, Charles.

Alex manages to find Grace, who witnesses Emilie accidentally kill a maid whom she mistakes for Grace.Īlex reveals that his family is cursed: if the new member draws the Hide-and-Seek card, the rest of the family has to find and ritually sacrifice them before dawn or they die instead. Believing it to be a harmless game Grace goes to hide herself as the Le Domases each receive a weapon. After the ceremony, Tony explains that his ancestor Victor le Domas made a deal with a man named 'le Bail' to build the Le Domas fortune in exchange for the family observing a tradition: at midnight on their wedding day, every new member draws a game card from Le Bail's puzzle box. On her wedding day, she meets the le Domases: Daniel and his snobbish wife Charity Alex's cocaine-addicted sister Emilie, her oafish husband Fitch, and their young sons Georgie and Gabe Alex's unpleasant Aunt Helene, and his parents Tony and Becky. Despite his bride's pleas, Charles is shot with a speargun and dragged away into a locked room.ģ0 years later, Daniel's brother Alex, the estranged son of the owners of the successful Le Domas Family Games company, is set to marry Grace, a former foster child. Instead, Daniel alerts his family, who arrive in ceremonial masks and robes. Plot Īs a child, Daniel le Domas is confronted in his family's mansion by a wounded man named Charles, who begs him for help. It grossed over $57.6 million worldwide on a $6 million budget. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of the cast, Olpin and Gillett's direction, and screenplay. It premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 27, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 21, 2019, by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Principal photography began later that month and concluded in November, in locations in and around Toronto, Canada and the surrounding Ontario area. After setting an initial release date, casting occurred from August to October 2018. Preparations began in November 2017 when Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett, members of the Radio Silence filmmaking collective, were hired as directors. It follows Grace (Weaving), a newlywed who is hunted by her spouse's wealthy Satan-worshipping family as part of a wedding night ritual.

It stars Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Henry Czerny, and Andie MacDowell. Ready or Not is a 2019 American black comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and written by Guy Busick and R.

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