Speaker 1: Hey, there're folks. It is Wednesday, October the fifteenth, and
Speaker 1: have we got a movie for you. It stars one
Speaker 1: of my absolute favorite horror movie actresses. And this movie
Speaker 1: will have you rethinking and then maybe asking more questions
Speaker 1: before you marry into somebody's family. And with that, welcome
Speaker 1: to our horror hit list as we continue to count
Speaker 1: down our favorite horror movies leading into Halloween. Our favorite
Speaker 1: horror movies that most folks have not heard of, This one.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's an actress people will recognize even
Speaker 1: they don't know her name.
Speaker 2: But there are other actors in this movie that do
Speaker 2: have household names. And I will have to say, you
Speaker 2: put this on my radar. I didn't know about the movie.
Speaker 2: I certainly had not watched the movie, and you said,
Speaker 2: oh boy, please watch it with me. I was gonna
Speaker 2: watch it. I think on a plane. You're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: watch it with me. And I'm so happy I did.
Speaker 3: Ready or not? That is the movie we are talking about.
Speaker 2: It was released August twenty first, twenty nineteen. I am
Speaker 2: not sure how I missed it again, great runtime, an
Speaker 2: hour and thirty five minutes rated Our horror Mystery thriller, comedy.
Speaker 2: So this has something for everybody. It really does have
Speaker 2: all of those genres put into one fabulous movie. And
Speaker 2: here's the synopsis for you. Grace couldn't be happier after
Speaker 2: she marries the man of her dreams at his family's
Speaker 2: luxurious estate.
Speaker 3: There's just one catch.
Speaker 2: She must now hide from midnight until dawn while her
Speaker 2: new in laws hunt her down with guns, crossbows, and
Speaker 2: other weapons. As Grace desperately tries to survive the night,
Speaker 2: she soon finds a way to turn the tables on
Speaker 2: her not so lovable relatives.
Speaker 1: Obviously, that's a ridiculous premise, and they pull it off
Speaker 1: so well. It doesn't seem like a silly movie at all.
Speaker 1: There is violence, there is horror, there is comedy. You've
Speaker 1: mentioned all those genres up there. Which one do you
Speaker 1: think it leans more into horror, mystery, thriller or comedy.
Speaker 2: I think it's a horror comedy. I thought I would
Speaker 2: put those two at the top. But there is mystery,
Speaker 2: and it is thrilling, and the acting is phenomenal, and
Speaker 2: there's a supernatural element to it as well, so it's
Speaker 2: not just people man versus man. There is a supernatural
Speaker 2: element that forces all of this to play out.
Speaker 1: Yes, and again you're hearing that right, folks. She's literally
Speaker 1: in her wedding dress and she has to play hide
Speaker 1: and go seek, and if she's caught and killed, that
Speaker 1: is the point. The in laws need to catch and
Speaker 1: kill her for supernatural reasons that will later be revealed.
Speaker 1: But that is what the movie is, that she gets
Speaker 1: bloodied all over the truth. It is a wonderful movie.
Speaker 2: And this thing did really really well at the box
Speaker 2: office actually for horror movie. Yeah, fifty seven point six
Speaker 2: million total. That's phenomenal. The budget was just six millions,
Speaker 2: so they did very well with this one, and you
Speaker 2: could see how maybe there is I would love a sequel, absolutely,
Speaker 2: But the cast Tomorrow Weaving, that's the actress that TJ
Speaker 2: was talking about, and it's true. You know her face,
Speaker 2: you know her work, but I didn't necessarily know her name.
Speaker 2: Then you have Adam.
Speaker 3: Brodie, duh.
Speaker 2: Then you have any McDowell, of course, amazing, and she's
Speaker 2: so good in this.
Speaker 3: By the way.
Speaker 2: I love I've always loved her and it's so fun
Speaker 2: seeing her in a delicious role like this, because that's
Speaker 2: exactly what her role is. As the mother in law,
Speaker 2: the new mother in law. Henry Churney also in it
Speaker 2: as the father in law.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again, everybody knows his face from so much work,
Speaker 1: and most recently he's been in several of the Mission
Speaker 1: Impossible movies. He was the first one with Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1: He's playing his guy at the Cio whatever at the
Speaker 1: head of IMF kind of a good guy, kind of
Speaker 1: bad guy. But they keep his character throughout the movies.
Speaker 2: And yes and so yes, all of these folks have
Speaker 2: familiar faces and familiar work.
Speaker 1: What is the I always forget the name of the
Speaker 1: show that Nicole Kitman helmed at the Resort where they're
Speaker 1: all the strangers.
Speaker 3: Perfect strangers.
Speaker 1: Yes, she was in that show as well. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean she was in The Babysitter. She's just a
Speaker 1: quirky you know what, She's a pretty blonde woman who
Speaker 1: plays these very quirky characters that aren't sexy. They're not
Speaker 1: playing characters who are trying to be sexy. They're hilarious.
Speaker 1: They're funny, self deprecating. She nails and owns that in
Speaker 1: all of her roles, and she does it once again.
Speaker 1: She is wonderful. What was the other thing.
Speaker 2: She was. I was surprised to see that she's thirty
Speaker 2: three years old. I think she I feel like she's
Speaker 2: so much younger than she is, but yeah, she is.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to look at some of the other the
Speaker 2: other things she's been in.
Speaker 1: Is she if you saw the most Resa the New
Speaker 1: when they redid Scream recently, she was in an opening
Speaker 1: sequence she's you know what, Yes, essentially playing the role
Speaker 1: that Drew Barrymore did and having an opening sequence in
Speaker 1: which she gets killed. Even doing that, she's just wonderful.
Speaker 1: I love a love of love.
Speaker 2: She is amazing. So Yes, and the directors are the
Speaker 2: same ones of Abigail. If you liked Abigail, if you
Speaker 2: watched Abigail, that was a fun one too. And it
Speaker 2: is in the same vein where it's like this horror
Speaker 2: comedy it works. Tyler Gilett and Matt Bethinelli open. I
Speaker 2: hope I said their names correctly, but good.
Speaker 1: To compare it to Abigail, they put somebody in a
Speaker 1: role you don't expect. There's a vicious vampire in the
Speaker 1: shape of a ten year old girl ballerina slippers and
Speaker 1: this is kind of the same thing. You see a
Speaker 1: bride in this wonderful dress. Everybody put together, everybody's got
Speaker 1: their tuxes, and every out here engaged in the most
Speaker 1: brutal hunt Cat and Miles game out.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love it so Rotten Tomatoes they loved it too.
Speaker 2: The score eighty nine percent, which is extremely high, and
Speaker 2: the audience score or seventy eight percent. And so maybe
Speaker 2: it was just a little too maybe the concept was
Speaker 2: a little too much to stomach for some folks. But yeah,
Speaker 2: this is definitely a well reviewed movie.
Speaker 1: You know, you look at this stuff more than I do.
Speaker 1: What is considered good bad. I assume anything in the nineties,
Speaker 1: But seventy eight seems really good to me. And you
Speaker 1: were like, it's a little.
Speaker 2: Well, No, I yes, I would have expected it to
Speaker 2: be higher, to be honest, I just thought it was
Speaker 2: that good of a movie. But I'm always surprised by
Speaker 2: the Rotten Tomato scores. I do feel validated when I
Speaker 2: agree with them, and I feel outraged when I think
Speaker 2: they got it wrong. But the critic consensus was this,
Speaker 2: and I think this is perfect, smart, subversive and darkly funny.
Speaker 2: Ready or Not is a crowd pleasing horror film with
Speaker 2: Giddaly entertaining bite.
Speaker 1: Dark is a good word for it. It's pretty dark.
Speaker 1: This is pretty dark, but they balance it with comedy.
Speaker 1: Usually it doesn't get We've seen dark horror movies right
Speaker 1: where it's something about the underworld or possession or things
Speaker 1: like that. It's not that kind of dark.
Speaker 3: It's just kind of the concept is dark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just that the brutality of it. But they juxtapose
Speaker 1: it with a wedding. They juxtapose it with comedy. They
Speaker 1: it offsets.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean even the kids.
Speaker 2: Like you know when kids are playing a role in
Speaker 2: a wedding, you know they're the ring bearer or the flower.
Speaker 2: They're even involved in the hunt. So yes, in that way,
Speaker 2: it is dark.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: We've got some critic reviews to give you a sense
Speaker 2: of what the professionals have said about this film. By
Speaker 2: the end of Ready or Not, each character feels fleshed out,
Speaker 2: the rituals feel both insane and logical, and the whole
Speaker 2: experience feels like a blood soaked roller coaster ride you
Speaker 2: can't wait to get back in line for.
Speaker 3: That's actually a really good way to put it. I
Speaker 3: love that one.
Speaker 2: Here's another a super smart B movie that offers a
Speaker 2: dark splattery note on the margins of society's growing divisions.
Speaker 3: That might be a little too heady for me. I
Speaker 3: wasn't looking at it from a cultural.
Speaker 2: Perspective or what it's said about us as a as
Speaker 2: a people.
Speaker 1: But okay, ruin the movie for me, there that review.
Speaker 3: Don't overthink it.
Speaker 2: Like at some point, I'm like, I understand their job
Speaker 2: is to be critical, but sometimes a movie just is
Speaker 2: what it is and they're not trying to make some
Speaker 2: and maybe they were trying to make.
Speaker 3: A larger point.
Speaker 2: I didn't take that away from watching the film, but hey,
Speaker 2: if you do and it means something to you, great.
Speaker 1: But it's cool to disagree and that be okay.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think it's interesting to see other people's reactions
Speaker 2: and reflections upon watching the movie.
Speaker 3: Here's another one.
Speaker 2: Ready or Not brings a new twist to the familiar
Speaker 2: story of trying to impress your soon to be in
Speaker 2: laws by combining horror mystery and a little bit classic
Speaker 2: screwball comedy.
Speaker 1: Screwball, that's a good way to put it. All these
Speaker 1: characters as well, even though they have serious roles, they
Speaker 1: they have a little screwball in their resume. Yes, this
Speaker 1: was a perfect cast for this well in the old
Speaker 1: the grandmother is.
Speaker 3: In there too, Yes, I mean everybody's in on it.
Speaker 1: She's one of my favorites. Yes, he does some weird stuff.
Speaker 1: She is probably the most brutal killer of them.
Speaker 2: All, which is it's funny because grandma's are not typically
Speaker 2: put like that into movies. All right, ready or not,
Speaker 2: here's another one accomplishes exactly what it's set out to do.
Speaker 2: It delivers a fun, entertaining ninety minute hide and seek
Speaker 2: game as we've never seen before. Totally perfect. Spot On
Speaker 2: loved all of those reviews for the most part. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly the best way to put it.
Speaker 2: This is one of those fun, entertaining crowd pleasers, and
Speaker 2: it's certainly why it made our list. But TJ, this
Speaker 2: was your favorite, so I don't know how did you
Speaker 2: describe it to me? For you were really excited about
Speaker 2: watching this movie with me?
Speaker 1: Because this was one of the earlier entries for us.
Speaker 1: We've gotten into it more lately, but horror comedy. Horror
Speaker 1: comedy is so so good because it does especially if
Speaker 1: they can pull off both genres like and being true
Speaker 1: to both of them. And this is one of the
Speaker 1: rare ones that does. And again you throw in this cat.
Speaker 1: This is another one. Excellent cast with excellent credentials, but
Speaker 1: they're able to pull off the idea your wedding day,
Speaker 1: your in laws have to hunt you down and kill
Speaker 1: you for some ritual.
Speaker 2: That's silly, yes, but didn't you love So sometimes you
Speaker 2: can have a silly premise like this and it's it's
Speaker 2: executed well, but they always have a tough time with
Speaker 2: the ending. I have to say I loved this ending. Yes,
Speaker 2: this ending is worth yeah.
Speaker 1: Wait, yeah, you don't see this coming?
Speaker 2: Is I did not see it coming because I laughed
Speaker 2: out loud. I was actually kind of appalled at myself
Speaker 2: for laughing, but I was okay with it because it's
Speaker 2: a movie and it's not real life.
Speaker 3: But I thought the ending was spectacular.
Speaker 1: And she played a big role, not of course you
Speaker 1: play play role, but her acting and how she pulled
Speaker 1: off and how she almost made it okay for you
Speaker 1: to laugh at some of the stuff you were seeing.
Speaker 1: It's and again we have to say it's pretty brutal
Speaker 1: and uncomfortable at times. A couple of the moments of
Speaker 1: there's some some pain. I should say that she has
Speaker 1: to endure that makes you a little squeamish, But this
Speaker 1: is a fun one and again she is a big
Speaker 1: part of the reason I love this movie. I will
Speaker 1: watch anything that she's in.
Speaker 2: All right, coming up after the break, we're going to
Speaker 2: tell you who it's for, who it's not for, what
Speaker 2: to paa with, where you can watch it and tis
Speaker 2: a head to number sixteen, which will drop tomorrow. Continuing
Speaker 2: now on our number seventeen on our horror hit list.
Speaker 2: Ready or Not, It's a wedding party like you've never seen.
Speaker 2: You know, the wedding's over. You go hang out with
Speaker 2: your new family, you celebrate, you sit around, you gather,
Speaker 2: and you play a few games, maybe even probably not
Speaker 2: this one, Ready or Not, a hide and seek game
Speaker 2: where your life is literally on the line.
Speaker 3: And we loved every dark, comedic moment of this movie.
Speaker 3: And yes it does get a little gruesome. So who
Speaker 3: is this for?
Speaker 2: I think if you love a cat and Mouse style horror,
Speaker 2: this is exactly that. I mean. This is a specific
Speaker 2: genre that hide and seek cat and Mouse. But it's
Speaker 2: fun because there are a lot of twists and turns,
Speaker 2: there are some jump scares, phenomenal acting, so I think
Speaker 2: if you appreciate that type of a movie, this is
Speaker 2: absolutely for you. You also have to be okay with some
Speaker 2: gore and some dark subject matters, and yes, you have
Speaker 2: to have a little bit of a twisted mindset to
Speaker 2: laugh along with the actors. There were times when I
Speaker 2: was actually kind of almost ashamed that I was laughing,
Speaker 2: but I also knew it was intentional.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of it's so over the top and ridiculous
Speaker 1: you shake your head slapstick. This is the most slapstick
Speaker 1: comedy I can come up with in a horror genre.
Speaker 1: It's hilarious. Some of this stuff is just insane. So
Speaker 1: if you for a horror movie fan, we're one, we're aficionado's,
Speaker 1: we're crazy people. If you're in the middle of the road,
Speaker 1: I think, I think this movie covers a lot of
Speaker 1: horror movie fans no matter where you are on that scale, correct,
Speaker 1: I think this can do it for you. And I
Speaker 1: think even if you're not a horror movie fan, this
Speaker 1: movie is funny enough to carry through as just a
Speaker 1: comedy as entertainment.
Speaker 3: For I agree.
Speaker 2: I agree, you just have to have a willingness to
Speaker 2: accept dark humor. But yes, I do believe comedy is
Speaker 2: at the top of this Now, who is it not for.
Speaker 2: I think if you really want to be scared, you're
Speaker 2: not scared watching this movie. I mean, it's thrilling and
Speaker 2: you're watching with deep anticipation, but I didn't feel physically
Speaker 2: nervous or scared or any of those things. So if
Speaker 2: you're wanting a scary, scary movie, this isn't it. But
Speaker 2: also if you don't, if you just can't stomach the
Speaker 2: idea of humans hunting humans, I understand that if that's
Speaker 2: too much for you, if that topic is just something
Speaker 2: you stay away from, then definitely don't watch this movie.
Speaker 2: But I do think it's all done in the spirit
Speaker 2: of humor, so it lightens it. It doesn't feel heavy.
Speaker 2: Even though it's dark, it's not heavy, but still just
Speaker 2: a caution to people who just turn their noses at
Speaker 2: that concept.
Speaker 1: I don't think this movie is for anybody getting married soon.
Speaker 1: Don't watch this. Just get through the wedding and then
Speaker 1: watch the movie and it'll be fine. You've already made
Speaker 1: the commitment. But this will will make you think about
Speaker 1: your in laws and what you know and what you don't.
Speaker 2: Know, especially if they have some castle remote castle and
Speaker 2: mysterious wealth that you don't know the source of that
Speaker 2: would be of concern after watching this movie.
Speaker 1: And lots of ancient weapons posted on the walls, you
Speaker 1: know as decoration. No, this is of course, this is
Speaker 1: over the top, but it does make you think about it. Well,
Speaker 1: they always say you can marry your spouse, you can
Speaker 1: pick your spouse, you can't pick your spouse's family. So
Speaker 1: this is one of those things that make you think
Speaker 1: about what other question you might need to ask.
Speaker 2: Cautionary tale, it's a cautionary tale in a horror movie. Sure,
Speaker 2: all right, what you should pair this with? Well, why
Speaker 2: not give it a wedding theme? I mean, just go
Speaker 2: all in so I I'm all about champagne and cake
Speaker 2: with this movie. It's fun to watch with the group,
Speaker 2: So go ahead and make it a party atmosphere. I
Speaker 2: think just to lean into the theme and have some
Speaker 2: fun with it is the right way to go. But
Speaker 2: this is absolutely a champagne style kind of movie. Beer,
Speaker 2: whatever your fun drink is, go to drink this is.
Speaker 2: This is a party movie that just gets a little bloody.
Speaker 1: I would maybe this is not this is a little
Speaker 1: bit of a date night movie. I think so because
Speaker 1: it does make you start to ask questions of each
Speaker 1: other and of your maybe families. But it also robes
Speaker 1: I forgot about this until now. She's marrying into this family,
Speaker 1: but she's marrying the guy she loves. He ends up
Speaker 1: being torn. You ask those questions, right, the loyalty to
Speaker 1: the family, loyalty to the person he just married. There
Speaker 1: were some fun questions in there, like love Island type questions.
Speaker 1: It's true and that you would pluck.
Speaker 2: Out The nice thing about like you actually are rooting
Speaker 2: for the characters, even the ones that are devilish so
Speaker 2: to speak.
Speaker 3: You still like them.
Speaker 1: They're likable.
Speaker 2: They're all likable, which is hard to do in a
Speaker 2: movie like this, And I think that's part of what
Speaker 2: makes it work so well, is that you like all
Speaker 2: of the individual characters even as they're doing dastardly things.
Speaker 1: They have despicable traits, but they're still characters you enjoy watching.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't think of anybody that turned to
Speaker 1: be off necessarily in this movie.
Speaker 2: No, no, this is a fun, awesome movie. We highly
Speaker 2: highly highly recommend Ready or Not Please. We love for
Speaker 2: you to give it a try. We feel free by
Speaker 2: the way on our Instagram page a ME and TJ Podcast.
Speaker 2: Love to hear your thoughts on each of these movies,
Speaker 2: what you're thinking of them. We haven't gone through and
Speaker 2: looked at some of the comments, but I bet they're fun.
Speaker 2: So love to hear what you think of this one.
Speaker 2: So our next movie number sixteen, that will be coming
Speaker 2: to you tomorrow, will tease it like this. This movie
Speaker 2: has one of the creepiest props we have ever seen
Speaker 2: in a movie. I mean, very unique, very creative. It's
Speaker 2: all set in a remote country house. And I would say,
Speaker 2: don't watch this next one alone.
Speaker 1: No, don't. I agree with that. It might be one
Speaker 1: of the one or two, maybe three creepiest movies on
Speaker 1: our list for sure.
Speaker 2: Very excited about bringing this one to you next, and
Speaker 2: thank you all for listening to us on this countdown
Speaker 2: to Halloween. I'm Amy Robock alongside TJ.
Speaker 3: Holmes. We will talk to you soon.