Having been busied themselves with the reboot of the Scream franchise (entries 5 & 6) and then the slightly toothless vampire flick ‘Abigail’ directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett return with another sequel ‘Ready or Not 2 Here I Come to their breakout 2019 hit that had earned a respectable $57m off a tiny $6m budget.
It’s delay would suggest that the world building of the first film be extended further where Grace (Samara Weaving) has offed the entire La Domas family and her fiancé who were all part of some Satanic cult. And the start of this sequel picks up directly from the end of the first film with Grace in her now signature bloodied wedding dress and sneakers sat outside the in flames mansion smoking a cigarette as the approaching support services sirens wail and she’s conveyed to hospital. It’s here that her estranged next of kin sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) arrives to find that Grace is now being investigated regarding the Dumas family massacre.
But what neither realize is that another blood drenched game is to begin with the clans of the remaining Satanic council that the Dumas were part of must kill Grace to take the High Seat that the Dumas family had previously occupied. So to that end we see families represented by Ursula (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Titus (Shawn Hatosy) , along with Grace’s now dead fiance’s former love interest Francesca (Maia Jae), the misplaced overconfident with a gun Vitaj (Nadeem Umar-Khitab) who couldn’t hit a cow’s arse with a banjo as well as well as several other High Seat aspirers and all supervised by the Council lawyer Elijah Wood in his latest horror film having determinedly left his hobbit days far behind him.
With a bigger budget the bloodbath is batshit bonkers but the universe expanding is less satisfactory. It’s the latest big budget B-movie this year but pales in comparison with something like Primate.
There’s a few moments – an industrial washing machine death is likely the best – and the explosive deaths are effectively and convincingly executed but like the first film it also lacks some clever set pieces or neat twists and it’s a trait common to the director’s previous films that the carnage quickly becomes predictable and just washes over you.
related feature : The story behind the making of Scream 5…..
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Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kathryn Newton & directors at the ‘Ready or Not 2 : Here I Come’ premiere…..
Here’s the Ready or Not 2 trailer……
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