Her massacre of the Le Domas clan has left a power vacuum within the satanic one per cent, which can only apparently be solved with more deadly hide and seek. Rinse and repeat. It\u2019s not original, but it still works. Horror is the rare genre where you can simply reload the gun and fire off a few new rounds. And, this time, the bullets are of a particularly fine make: Sarah Michelle Gellar<\/a>, Kathryn Newton, Elijah Wood, The Pitt\u2019s Shawn Hatosy, and, unexpectedly, The Fly director David Cronenberg all make an appearance.<\/p>\n Grace can at least now rely on the help of her estranged sister Faith (Newton). Writers Guy Busick and R Christopher Murphy attempt to make their sequel about familial loyalty, the question of whether blood really is thicker than water, as Grace and Faith spend half the runtime bickering over who abandoned who. Meanwhile, brother-and-sister act Ursula (Gellar) and Titus Danforth (Hatosy) have been tasked by their imperious father (Cronenberg) to kill Grace and win the High Seat, which would in turn essentially hand them the keys to the world. But if they win, who actually wears the crown? Daddy didn\u2019t bother to explain that one.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Sarah Michelle Gellar in \u2018Ready or Not 2: Here I Come\u2019 (Searchlight Pictures)<\/p>\n Gellar\u2019s always at her best when she\u2019s able to slink back into the venomous skin of Cruel Intentions\u2019s Kathryn Merteuil<\/a>, and Wood has some fun with the placid, perma-smile of a lawyer tasked by the literal devil to explain the game\u2019s rules. And, boy, are there a lot of rules to explain, as the film manoeuvres itself to introduce its cabal of new assailants, chiefly the sniper-trained Ignacio El Caido (N\u00e9stor Carbonell), tycoon Wan Chen Xing (Olivia Cheng), and party boy Viraj Rajan (Nadeem Umar-Khitab).<\/p>\n More subclauses are required to explain why Grace and Faith end up bathed in blood every other scene. Ready or Not 2 is exhaustingly attached to any image from the first film it deems \u201ciconic\u201d, yet the original was at least early to the \u201ceat the rich\u201d trend, and still feels more emotionally honest than a lot of what came after (think Anya Taylor-Joy smugly chowing down on her cheeseburger at the end of The Menu<\/a>).<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Samara Weaving in \u2018Ready or Not 2: Here I Come\u2019 (Searchlight Pictures)<\/p>\n Here, it\u2019s not a matter of vengeance against the elite but survival. And Weaving bellows and grunts like a wounded creature trying to get the boot off their back. While the world around her gets increasingly silly \u2013 to the film\u2019s credit, the excess is usually quite funny, and there\u2019s an inspired sequence involving mutual pepper spraying \u2013 Grace still stands at the centre with the kind of demented determination that recalls Marilyn Burns\u2019s Sally Hardesty laughing her head off as the truck drives away at the end of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). It\u2019s the same game, but it\u2019s easy to root for the same winner.<\/p>\n Dir: Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin. Stars: Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood. Cert 15, 108 minutes.<\/p>\n \u2018Ready or Not 2: Here I Come\u2019 is in cinemas from 20 March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sarah](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ready-or-not-sarah-michelle-gellar.jpeg\")
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