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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa084.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/movies/ready-or-not-2-review.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/movies/ready-or-not-2-review.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/19\/movies\/ready-or-not-2-review.html","crawl_time":1773998318,"first_indexed_time":0,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/2026\/03\/19\/movies\/ready-or-not-2-review.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ Review: The Blood Is Thicker - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["Grace must once again survive the night, this time with her sister, in a gory, unhinged sequel that harbors a bleaker heart than the original."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Advertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\nCritic’s Pick\nGrace must once again survive the night, this time with her sister, in a gory, unhinged sequel that harbors a bleaker heart than the original.\nSamara Weaving, right, with Kathryn Newton in “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.”\nCredit...\nSearchlight Pictures\nMarch 19, 2026\nReady or Not 2: Here I Come\nNYT Critic’s Pick\nDirected by\nMatt Bettinelli-Olpin\n,\nTyler Gillett\nComedy, Horror, Thriller\nR\n1h 48m\n“Eat the rich” entertainment — which is more or less exactly what it sounds like — isn’t entirely new. But for hardly mysterious reasons, the mini-genre has flourished in recent years. Movies like “Parasite,” “Saltburn,” “Blink Twice” and “Glass Onion,” and shows like “White Lotus” and “Succession” skewer the ultrawealthy and offer audiences a certain kind of catharsis. Sometimes the fun is in imagining these people to be ridiculous and secretly miserable. Sometimes, it’s in actually watching the less privileged experience some measure of triumph.\nMost of these stories have been popular, or acclaimed, or both. But few have gone at their task with as much deranged, gory glee as\n“Ready or Not” (2019)\n, in which a new bride named Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers her in-laws, the Le Domas family, are not run-of-the-mill rich weirdos but kooky Satanists whose ancestors, in return for fabulous wealth, sold their souls to some guy named Mr. Le Bail, a.k.a. Old Nick, a.k.a. the devil. The traditional wedding festivities involve playing games to honor the Man Downstairs, and Grace, now prey, had to survive the night. Which she did, covered in the blood of her erstwhile exploded family members. (When Mr. Le Bail is displeased, spontaneous combustion occurs.)\n“Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” picks up where we left off, with Grace smoking a cigarette on the steps of the family home, triumphant but traumatized. She needs medical attention, and when she wakes up in a hospital bed we soon learn how this new installment intends to keep the saga going. It turns out the Le Domas clan were but one of a cabal of world-ruling, Satan-worshiping families, and now that the family line has effectively ended, with only Grace left, there’s a potential vacancy in the cabal’s highest position of power — the “chair.” Because of an arcane set of rules, now all of the families must gather at a palatial manor for another night of hunting Grace, presided over by The Lawyer (Elijah Wood), Mr. Le Bail’s congenial right-hand man, who will make sure all the rules are followed.\nAnd so they hunt, gathering at the hereditary home of the Danforth family, whose patriarch Chester Danforth (David Cronenberg) has recently passed away, handing the reins to his twin children, Titus (Shawn Hatosy) and Ursula (Sarah Michelle Gellar). The head of each family will hunt only with the weapons available when their family made their deal with Mr. Le Bail. The Danforth twins, as equal firstborns, will fight together. But other clan heads will take up arms alone: Ignacio (Nestor Carbonell), of the El Caídos; Chen Xing (Olivia Cheng), of the Wans; and Madhu (Varun Saranga), of the Rajans.\nAs luck would have it, though, Grace does have one family member: her sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton) — the naming here is not so subtle — from whom Grace has been estranged but who was listed as her next of kin and thus showed up at the hospital. So Faith gets hauled into the whole mess too, and the games begin.\n“Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” is a worthy sequel, repeating some of the same beats as its predecessor, but cleverly reinvented so that it’s still unpredictable and hilariously bizarre. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who make films under the collective called Radio Silence, return to the film’s helm, managing a tricky balance of horror, comedy and at times genuine cruelty and pathos. Working with the cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz, they craft a world that’s lush and sinister. By the end, they explicitly draw on early Renaissance paintings, a move that’s both over the top and surprisingly meaningful. The film would work just fine without flourishes like this, but that’s what makes it so good.\nWeaving carries most of the movie, balancing a traumatized delicacy with determined, believable ferocity, but Newton is a badass in her own right, and her arrival lends instant depth and sympathy to these two hunted women. The rest of the characters are barely built out, but don’t really need to be, because they’re just types: the schemer, the coward, the misogynist and so on. The most delightful is Wood as the devil’s attorney; how lucky we are that he’s chosen to spend so much time of late playing weird little guys.\nThere is an inherent silliness to the whole premise of these movies, baked in by the writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, that hovers somewhere between medieval fable and uncomfortably plausible conspiracy theory. It’s no longer hard to believe that all of the world’s richest, most powerful people are in cahoots, if it ever really was. Making them all subject to an ancient Faustian bargain seems barely metaphorical.\nAnd while the humor is goofy — it’s hard not to laugh when people are ducking and running for cover because someone is about to explode — it’s a zaniness that feels almost frantic, in a way that really works. “Ready or Not” was dark, no doubt, but there’s something more bleak in the heart of “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.” Grace, who was a survivor of terrible circumstances even before all this nonsense began, has always lived in a world that wasn’t built to help her succeed.\nBut now it’s quite literally trying to kill her, and her sister too. In one extended sequence, the violence tips over from cartoonish to uncomfortably graphic, and just keeps going; you realize that the entitlement and misogyny of these horrible, soul-sick hunters has rotted them from the inside beyond all salvation. Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else.\nReady or Not 2: Here I Come\nRated R for much murder and blood, and lots of bad language. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. In theaters.\nAlissa Wilkinson\nis a Times movie critic. She’s been writing about movies since 2005.\nA version of this article appears in print on\nMarch 20, 2026\n, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: An Even Darker Dive Into the Gore\n.\nOrder Reprints\n|\nToday’s Paper\n|\nSubscribe\nRelated Content\nMore in Movies\nPhilip Cheung for The New York Times\nJonathan Olley\/Amazon MGM Studios\nJordan Strauss\/Invision, via Associated Press\nMike Coppola\/Getty Images\nEditors’ Picks\nFrederic J. Brown\/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images\nIllustration by Brian Rea\nTrending in The Times\nDisney\/John Fleenor\nDoug Mills\/The New York Times\nThe New York Times\nEric Helgas for The New York Times\nGraham Dickie for The New York Times\nMarty Melville\/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images\nJim Thompson\/Albuquerque Journal\/ZUMA Wire, via Reuters\nAnna Rose Layden for The New York Times\nImage by National Weather Service Pittsburgh\nMaria Baranova\nAdvertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to content](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/19\/movies\/ready-or-not-2-review.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/19\/movies\/ready-or-not-2-review.html#site-index)\n\nSearch & Section Navigation\n\nSection Navigation\n\nSearch\n\n[Movies](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/movies)\n\n[Log in](https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2026%252F03%252F19%252Fmovies%252Fready-or-not-2-review.html&asset=masthead)\n\nFriday, March 20, 2026\n\n[Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper)\n\n[What to Watch](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/spotlight\/what-to-watch)\n\n- [March Streaming Picks](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/04\/arts\/television\/movies-tv-shows-march-2026-streaming.html)\n- [‘Undertone’](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/12\/movies\/undertone-review.html)\n- [‘Reminders of Him’](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/12\/movies\/reminders-of-him-review.html)\n- [‘Bushido’](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/12\/movies\/bushido-review.html)\n- [‘Scarpetta’](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/10\/arts\/television\/scarpetta-review.html)\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/19\/movies\/ready-or-not-2-review.html#after-top)\n\nSupported by\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/19\/movies\/ready-or-not-2-review.html#after-sponsor)\n\nCritic’s Pick\n\n# ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ Review: The Blood Is Thicker\nGrace must once again survive the night, this time with her sister, in a gory, unhinged sequel that harbors a bleaker heart than the original.\n\n- Share full article\n- 1\n\n![Two women sit in a large room restrained to chairs, both with bloodstained clothes. The woman on the left looks distressed, while the woman on the right screams. Several people are in the background, watching them in a dimly lit room.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/03\/20\/multimedia\/19cul-readyornot-review1-cztf\/19cul-readyornot-review1-cztf-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nSamara Weaving, right, with Kathryn Newton in “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.”Credit...Searchlight Pictures\n\n[![Alissa Wilkinson](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/01\/05\/reader-center\/author-alissa-wilkinson\/author-alissa-wilkinson-thumbLarge.png)](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/alissa-wilkinson)\n\nBy [Alissa Wilkinson](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/alissa-wilkinson)\n\nMarch 19, 2026\n\nReady or Not 2: Here I Come\n\nNYT Critic’s Pick\n\nDirected by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett\n\nComedy, Horror, Thriller\n\nR\n\n1h 48m\n\n[Find Tickets](https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/showtimes\/title\/tt33978029?ref_=ref_ext_NYT)\n\nWhen you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.\n\n“Eat the rich” entertainment — which is more or less exactly what it sounds like — isn’t entirely new. But for hardly mysterious reasons, the mini-genre has flourished in recent years. Movies like “Parasite,” “Saltburn,” “Blink Twice” and “Glass Onion,” and shows like “White Lotus” and “Succession” skewer the ultrawealthy and offer audiences a certain kind of catharsis. Sometimes the fun is in imagining these people to be ridiculous and secretly miserable. Sometimes, it’s in actually watching the less privileged experience some measure of triumph.\n\nMost of these stories have been popular, or acclaimed, or both. But few have gone at their task with as much deranged, gory glee as [“Ready or Not” (2019)](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/20\/movies\/ready-or-not-review.html), in which a new bride named Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers her in-laws, the Le Domas family, are not run-of-the-mill rich weirdos but kooky Satanists whose ancestors, in return for fabulous wealth, sold their souls to some guy named Mr. Le Bail, a.k.a. Old Nick, a.k.a. the devil. The traditional wedding festivities involve playing games to honor the Man Downstairs, and Grace, now prey, had to survive the night. Which she did, covered in the blood of her erstwhile exploded family members. (When Mr. Le Bail is displeased, spontaneous combustion occurs.)\n\n“Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” picks up where we left off, with Grace smoking a cigarette on the steps of the family home, triumphant but traumatized. She needs medical attention, and when she wakes up in a hospital bed we soon learn how this new installment intends to keep the saga going. It turns out the Le Domas clan were but one of a cabal of world-ruling, Satan-worshiping families, and now that the family line has effectively ended, with only Grace left, there’s a potential vacancy in the cabal’s highest position of power — the “chair.” Because of an arcane set of rules, now all of the families must gather at a palatial manor for another night of hunting Grace, presided over by The Lawyer (Elijah Wood), Mr. Le Bail’s congenial right-hand man, who will make sure all the rules are followed.\n\nAnd so they hunt, gathering at the hereditary home of the Danforth family, whose patriarch Chester Danforth (David Cronenberg) has recently passed away, handing the reins to his twin children, Titus (Shawn Hatosy) and Ursula (Sarah Michelle Gellar). The head of each family will hunt only with the weapons available when their family made their deal with Mr. Le Bail. The Danforth twins, as equal firstborns, will fight together. But other clan heads will take up arms alone: Ignacio (Nestor Carbonell), of the El Caídos; Chen Xing (Olivia Cheng), of the Wans; and Madhu (Varun Saranga), of the Rajans.\n\nAs luck would have it, though, Grace does have one family member: her sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton) — the naming here is not so subtle — from whom Grace has been estranged but who was listed as her next of kin and thus showed up at the hospital. So Faith gets hauled into the whole mess too, and the games begin.\n\n“Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” is a worthy sequel, repeating some of the same beats as its predecessor, but cleverly reinvented so that it’s still unpredictable and hilariously bizarre. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who make films under the collective called Radio Silence, return to the film’s helm, managing a tricky balance of horror, comedy and at times genuine cruelty and pathos. Working with the cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz, they craft a world that’s lush and sinister. By the end, they explicitly draw on early Renaissance paintings, a move that’s both over the top and surprisingly meaningful. The film would work just fine without flourishes like this, but that’s what makes it so good.\n\nWeaving carries most of the movie, balancing a traumatized delicacy with determined, believable ferocity, but Newton is a badass in her own right, and her arrival lends instant depth and sympathy to these two hunted women. The rest of the characters are barely built out, but don’t really need to be, because they’re just types: the schemer, the coward, the misogynist and so on. The most delightful is Wood as the devil’s attorney; how lucky we are that he’s chosen to spend so much time of late playing weird little guys.\n\nThere is an inherent silliness to the whole premise of these movies, baked in by the writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, that hovers somewhere between medieval fable and uncomfortably plausible conspiracy theory. It’s no longer hard to believe that all of the world’s richest, most powerful people are in cahoots, if it ever really was. Making them all subject to an ancient Faustian bargain seems barely metaphorical.\n\n## Editors’ Picks\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/03\/17\/multimedia\/17ST-DOGUE-promo-mtkq\/17ST-DOGUE-promo-mtkq-thumbLarge.jpg)Vogue Is Suing a Dog Fashion Magazine. Guess What It’s Called.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/17\/style\/vogue-conde-nast-dogue-magazine-lawsuit.html)\n\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/06\/20\/fashion\/socialqs-2021-artwork\/socialqs-2021-artwork-thumbLarge-v2.jpg)My Relative Takes Forever to Reply to My Texts. What Can I Do?](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/18\/style\/slow-text-replies-bad-texter.html)\n\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/03\/13\/books\/review\/13TBR-Book-Adaptations\/13TBR-Book-Adaptations-thumbLarge.jpg)Read These Books Before They Hit Your Screens in 2026](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/05\/books\/book-movie-tv-adaptations-2026.html)\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/19\/movies\/ready-or-not-2-review.html#after-pp_edpick)\n\nAnd while the humor is goofy — it’s hard not to laugh when people are ducking and running for cover because someone is about to explode — it’s a zaniness that feels almost frantic, in a way that really works. “Ready or Not” was dark, no doubt, but there’s something more bleak in the heart of “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.” Grace, who was a survivor of terrible circumstances even before all this nonsense began, has always lived in a world that wasn’t built to help her succeed.\n\nBut now it’s quite literally trying to kill her, and her sister too. In one extended sequence, the violence tips over from cartoonish to uncomfortably graphic, and just keeps going; you realize that the entitlement and misogyny of these horrible, soul-sick hunters has rotted them from the inside beyond all salvation. Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else.\n\n**Ready or Not 2: Here I Come**  \nRated R for much murder and blood, and lots of bad language. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. In theaters.\n\n#### Ready or Not 2: Here I Come\nNYT Critic’s Pick\n\n[Find Tickets](https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/showtimes\/title\/tt33978029?ref_=ref_ext_NYT)\n\nWhen you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.\n\nDirectors\n\nMatt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett\n\nWriters\n\nGuy Busick, R. Christopher Murphy, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett\n\nStars\n\nSamara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Elijah Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy\n\nRating\n\nR\n\nRunning Time\n\n1h 48m\n\nGenres\n\nComedy, Horror, Thriller\n\nMovie data powered by IMDb.com\n\n[Alissa Wilkinson](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/alissa-wilkinson) is a Times movie critic. She’s been writing about movies since 2005.\n\nA version of this article appears in print on March 20, 2026, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: An Even Darker Dive Into the Gore. [Order Reprints](https:\/\/nytimes.wrightsmedia.com\/) \\| [Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper) \\| [Subscribe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/subscriptions\/Multiproduct\/lp8HYKU.html?campaignId=48JQY)\n\nSee more on: [David Cronenberg](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/topic\/david-cronenberg)\n\nRead 1 comment\n\n- Share full article\n- 1\n\n***\n## Explore More in TV and Movies\n### Not sure what to watch next? 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The woman on the left looks distressed, while the woman on the right screams. Several people are in the background, watching them in a dimly lit room.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/03\/20\/multimedia\/19cul-readyornot-review1-cztf\/19cul-readyornot-review1-cztf-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nSamara Weaving, right, with Kathryn Newton in “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.”Credit...Searchlight Pictures\n\nMarch 19, 2026\n\nReady or Not 2: Here I Come\n\nNYT Critic’s Pick\n\nDirected by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett\n\nComedy, Horror, Thriller\n\nR\n\n1h 48m\n\n“Eat the rich” entertainment — which is more or less exactly what it sounds like — isn’t entirely new. But for hardly mysterious reasons, the mini-genre has flourished in recent years. Movies like “Parasite,” “Saltburn,” “Blink Twice” and “Glass Onion,” and shows like “White Lotus” and “Succession” skewer the ultrawealthy and offer audiences a certain kind of catharsis. Sometimes the fun is in imagining these people to be ridiculous and secretly miserable. Sometimes, it’s in actually watching the less privileged experience some measure of triumph.\n\nMost of these stories have been popular, or acclaimed, or both. But few have gone at their task with as much deranged, gory glee as [“Ready or Not” (2019)](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/20\/movies\/ready-or-not-review.html), in which a new bride named Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers her in-laws, the Le Domas family, are not run-of-the-mill rich weirdos but kooky Satanists whose ancestors, in return for fabulous wealth, sold their souls to some guy named Mr. Le Bail, a.k.a. Old Nick, a.k.a. the devil. The traditional wedding festivities involve playing games to honor the Man Downstairs, and Grace, now prey, had to survive the night. Which she did, covered in the blood of her erstwhile exploded family members. (When Mr. Le Bail is displeased, spontaneous combustion occurs.)\n\n“Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” picks up where we left off, with Grace smoking a cigarette on the steps of the family home, triumphant but traumatized. She needs medical attention, and when she wakes up in a hospital bed we soon learn how this new installment intends to keep the saga going. It turns out the Le Domas clan were but one of a cabal of world-ruling, Satan-worshiping families, and now that the family line has effectively ended, with only Grace left, there’s a potential vacancy in the cabal’s highest position of power — the “chair.” Because of an arcane set of rules, now all of the families must gather at a palatial manor for another night of hunting Grace, presided over by The Lawyer (Elijah Wood), Mr. Le Bail’s congenial right-hand man, who will make sure all the rules are followed.\n\nAnd so they hunt, gathering at the hereditary home of the Danforth family, whose patriarch Chester Danforth (David Cronenberg) has recently passed away, handing the reins to his twin children, Titus (Shawn Hatosy) and Ursula (Sarah Michelle Gellar). The head of each family will hunt only with the weapons available when their family made their deal with Mr. Le Bail. The Danforth twins, as equal firstborns, will fight together. But other clan heads will take up arms alone: Ignacio (Nestor Carbonell), of the El Caídos; Chen Xing (Olivia Cheng), of the Wans; and Madhu (Varun Saranga), of the Rajans.\n\nAs luck would have it, though, Grace does have one family member: her sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton) — the naming here is not so subtle — from whom Grace has been estranged but who was listed as her next of kin and thus showed up at the hospital. So Faith gets hauled into the whole mess too, and the games begin.\n\n“Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” is a worthy sequel, repeating some of the same beats as its predecessor, but cleverly reinvented so that it’s still unpredictable and hilariously bizarre. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who make films under the collective called Radio Silence, return to the film’s helm, managing a tricky balance of horror, comedy and at times genuine cruelty and pathos. Working with the cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz, they craft a world that’s lush and sinister. By the end, they explicitly draw on early Renaissance paintings, a move that’s both over the top and surprisingly meaningful. The film would work just fine without flourishes like this, but that’s what makes it so good.\n\nWeaving carries most of the movie, balancing a traumatized delicacy with determined, believable ferocity, but Newton is a badass in her own right, and her arrival lends instant depth and sympathy to these two hunted women. The rest of the characters are barely built out, but don’t really need to be, because they’re just types: the schemer, the coward, the misogynist and so on. The most delightful is Wood as the devil’s attorney; how lucky we are that he’s chosen to spend so much time of late playing weird little guys.\n\nThere is an inherent silliness to the whole premise of these movies, baked in by the writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, that hovers somewhere between medieval fable and uncomfortably plausible conspiracy theory. It’s no longer hard to believe that all of the world’s richest, most powerful people are in cahoots, if it ever really was. Making them all subject to an ancient Faustian bargain seems barely metaphorical.\n\nAnd while the humor is goofy — it’s hard not to laugh when people are ducking and running for cover because someone is about to explode — it’s a zaniness that feels almost frantic, in a way that really works. “Ready or Not” was dark, no doubt, but there’s something more bleak in the heart of “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.” Grace, who was a survivor of terrible circumstances even before all this nonsense began, has always lived in a world that wasn’t built to help her succeed.\n\nBut now it’s quite literally trying to kill her, and her sister too. In one extended sequence, the violence tips over from cartoonish to uncomfortably graphic, and just keeps going; you realize that the entitlement and misogyny of these horrible, soul-sick hunters has rotted them from the inside beyond all salvation. Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else.\n\n**Ready or Not 2: Here I Come**  \nRated R for much murder and blood, and lots of bad language. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. In theaters.\n\n[Alissa Wilkinson](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/alissa-wilkinson) is a Times movie critic. She’s been writing about movies since 2005.\n\nA version of this article appears in print on March 20, 2026, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: An Even Darker Dive Into the Gore. 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Boilerpipe Text	Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Critic’s Pick Grace must once again survive the night, this time with her sister, in a gory, unhinged sequel that harbors a bleaker heart than the original. Samara Weaving, right, with Kathryn Newton in “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.” Credit... Searchlight Pictures March 19, 2026 Ready or Not 2: Here I Come NYT Critic’s Pick Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin , Tyler Gillett Comedy, Horror, Thriller R 1h 48m “Eat the rich” entertainment — which is more or less exactly what it sounds like — isn’t entirely new. But for hardly mysterious reasons, the mini-genre has flourished in recent years. Movies like “Parasite,” “Saltburn,” “Blink Twice” and “Glass Onion,” and shows like “White Lotus” and “Succession” skewer the ultrawealthy and offer audiences a certain kind of catharsis. Sometimes the fun is in imagining these people to be ridiculous and secretly miserable. Sometimes, it’s in actually watching the less privileged experience some measure of triumph. Most of these stories have been popular, or acclaimed, or both. But few have gone at their task with as much deranged, gory glee as “Ready or Not” (2019) , in which a new bride named Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers her in-laws, the Le Domas family, are not run-of-the-mill rich weirdos but kooky Satanists whose ancestors, in return for fabulous wealth, sold their souls to some guy named Mr. Le Bail, a.k.a. Old Nick, a.k.a. the devil. The traditional wedding festivities involve playing games to honor the Man Downstairs, and Grace, now prey, had to survive the night. Which she did, covered in the blood of her erstwhile exploded family members. (When Mr. Le Bail is displeased, spontaneous combustion occurs.) “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” picks up where we left off, with Grace smoking a cigarette on the steps of the family home, triumphant but traumatized. She needs medical attention, and when she wakes up in a hospital bed we soon learn how this new installment intends to keep the saga going. It turns out the Le Domas clan were but one of a cabal of world-ruling, Satan-worshiping families, and now that the family line has effectively ended, with only Grace left, there’s a potential vacancy in the cabal’s highest position of power — the “chair.” Because of an arcane set of rules, now all of the families must gather at a palatial manor for another night of hunting Grace, presided over by The Lawyer (Elijah Wood), Mr. Le Bail’s congenial right-hand man, who will make sure all the rules are followed. And so they hunt, gathering at the hereditary home of the Danforth family, whose patriarch Chester Danforth (David Cronenberg) has recently passed away, handing the reins to his twin children, Titus (Shawn Hatosy) and Ursula (Sarah Michelle Gellar). The head of each family will hunt only with the weapons available when their family made their deal with Mr. Le Bail. The Danforth twins, as equal firstborns, will fight together. But other clan heads will take up arms alone: Ignacio (Nestor Carbonell), of the El Caídos; Chen Xing (Olivia Cheng), of the Wans; and Madhu (Varun Saranga), of the Rajans. As luck would have it, though, Grace does have one family member: her sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton) — the naming here is not so subtle — from whom Grace has been estranged but who was listed as her next of kin and thus showed up at the hospital. So Faith gets hauled into the whole mess too, and the games begin. “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” is a worthy sequel, repeating some of the same beats as its predecessor, but cleverly reinvented so that it’s still unpredictable and hilariously bizarre. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who make films under the collective called Radio Silence, return to the film’s helm, managing a tricky balance of horror, comedy and at times genuine cruelty and pathos. Working with the cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz, they craft a world that’s lush and sinister. By the end, they explicitly draw on early Renaissance paintings, a move that’s both over the top and surprisingly meaningful. The film would work just fine without flourishes like this, but that’s what makes it so good. Weaving carries most of the movie, balancing a traumatized delicacy with determined, believable ferocity, but Newton is a badass in her own right, and her arrival lends instant depth and sympathy to these two hunted women. The rest of the characters are barely built out, but don’t really need to be, because they’re just types: the schemer, the coward, the misogynist and so on. The most delightful is Wood as the devil’s attorney; how lucky we are that he’s chosen to spend so much time of late playing weird little guys. There is an inherent silliness to the whole premise of these movies, baked in by the writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, that hovers somewhere between medieval fable and uncomfortably plausible conspiracy theory. It’s no longer hard to believe that all of the world’s richest, most powerful people are in cahoots, if it ever really was. Making them all subject to an ancient Faustian bargain seems barely metaphorical. And while the humor is goofy — it’s hard not to laugh when people are ducking and running for cover because someone is about to explode — it’s a zaniness that feels almost frantic, in a way that really works. “Ready or Not” was dark, no doubt, but there’s something more bleak in the heart of “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.” Grace, who was a survivor of terrible circumstances even before all this nonsense began, has always lived in a world that wasn’t built to help her succeed. But now it’s quite literally trying to kill her, and her sister too. In one extended sequence, the violence tips over from cartoonish to uncomfortably graphic, and just keeps going; you realize that the entitlement and misogyny of these horrible, soul-sick hunters has rotted them from the inside beyond all salvation. Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Rated R for much murder and blood, and lots of bad language. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. In theaters. Alissa Wilkinson is a Times movie critic. She’s been writing about movies since 2005. A version of this article appears in print on March 20, 2026 , Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: An Even Darker Dive Into the Gore . Order Reprints \| Today’s Paper \| Subscribe Related Content More in Movies Philip Cheung for The New York Times Jonathan Olley/Amazon MGM Studios Jordan Strauss/Invision, via Associated Press Mike Coppola/Getty Images Editors’ Picks Frederic J. 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The woman on the left looks distressed, while the woman on the right screams. Several people are in the background, watching them in a dimly lit room.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/20/multimedia/19cul-readyornot-review1-cztf/19cul-readyornot-review1-cztf-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Samara Weaving, right, with Kathryn Newton in “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.”Credit...Searchlight Pictures [![Alissa Wilkinson](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/05/reader-center/author-alissa-wilkinson/author-alissa-wilkinson-thumbLarge.png)](https://www.nytimes.com/by/alissa-wilkinson) By [Alissa Wilkinson](https://www.nytimes.com/by/alissa-wilkinson) March 19, 2026 Ready or Not 2: Here I Come NYT Critic’s Pick Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett Comedy, Horror, Thriller R 1h 48m [Find Tickets](https://www.imdb.com/showtimes/title/tt33978029?ref_=ref_ext_NYT) When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “Eat the rich” entertainment — which is more or less exactly what it sounds like — isn’t entirely new. But for hardly mysterious reasons, the mini-genre has flourished in recent years. Movies like “Parasite,” “Saltburn,” “Blink Twice” and “Glass Onion,” and shows like “White Lotus” and “Succession” skewer the ultrawealthy and offer audiences a certain kind of catharsis. Sometimes the fun is in imagining these people to be ridiculous and secretly miserable. Sometimes, it’s in actually watching the less privileged experience some measure of triumph. Most of these stories have been popular, or acclaimed, or both. But few have gone at their task with as much deranged, gory glee as [“Ready or Not” (2019)](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/movies/ready-or-not-review.html), in which a new bride named Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers her in-laws, the Le Domas family, are not run-of-the-mill rich weirdos but kooky Satanists whose ancestors, in return for fabulous wealth, sold their souls to some guy named Mr. Le Bail, a.k.a. Old Nick, a.k.a. the devil. The traditional wedding festivities involve playing games to honor the Man Downstairs, and Grace, now prey, had to survive the night. Which she did, covered in the blood of her erstwhile exploded family members. (When Mr. Le Bail is displeased, spontaneous combustion occurs.) “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” picks up where we left off, with Grace smoking a cigarette on the steps of the family home, triumphant but traumatized. She needs medical attention, and when she wakes up in a hospital bed we soon learn how this new installment intends to keep the saga going. It turns out the Le Domas clan were but one of a cabal of world-ruling, Satan-worshiping families, and now that the family line has effectively ended, with only Grace left, there’s a potential vacancy in the cabal’s highest position of power — the “chair.” Because of an arcane set of rules, now all of the families must gather at a palatial manor for another night of hunting Grace, presided over by The Lawyer (Elijah Wood), Mr. Le Bail’s congenial right-hand man, who will make sure all the rules are followed. And so they hunt, gathering at the hereditary home of the Danforth family, whose patriarch Chester Danforth (David Cronenberg) has recently passed away, handing the reins to his twin children, Titus (Shawn Hatosy) and Ursula (Sarah Michelle Gellar). The head of each family will hunt only with the weapons available when their family made their deal with Mr. Le Bail. The Danforth twins, as equal firstborns, will fight together. But other clan heads will take up arms alone: Ignacio (Nestor Carbonell), of the El Caídos; Chen Xing (Olivia Cheng), of the Wans; and Madhu (Varun Saranga), of the Rajans. As luck would have it, though, Grace does have one family member: her sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton) — the naming here is not so subtle — from whom Grace has been estranged but who was listed as her next of kin and thus showed up at the hospital. So Faith gets hauled into the whole mess too, and the games begin. “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” is a worthy sequel, repeating some of the same beats as its predecessor, but cleverly reinvented so that it’s still unpredictable and hilariously bizarre. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who make films under the collective called Radio Silence, return to the film’s helm, managing a tricky balance of horror, comedy and at times genuine cruelty and pathos. Working with the cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz, they craft a world that’s lush and sinister. By the end, they explicitly draw on early Renaissance paintings, a move that’s both over the top and surprisingly meaningful. The film would work just fine without flourishes like this, but that’s what makes it so good. Weaving carries most of the movie, balancing a traumatized delicacy with determined, believable ferocity, but Newton is a badass in her own right, and her arrival lends instant depth and sympathy to these two hunted women. The rest of the characters are barely built out, but don’t really need to be, because they’re just types: the schemer, the coward, the misogynist and so on. The most delightful is Wood as the devil’s attorney; how lucky we are that he’s chosen to spend so much time of late playing weird little guys. There is an inherent silliness to the whole premise of these movies, baked in by the writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, that hovers somewhere between medieval fable and uncomfortably plausible conspiracy theory. It’s no longer hard to believe that all of the world’s richest, most powerful people are in cahoots, if it ever really was. Making them all subject to an ancient Faustian bargain seems barely metaphorical. ## Editors’ Picks [![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/17/multimedia/17ST-DOGUE-promo-mtkq/17ST-DOGUE-promo-mtkq-thumbLarge.jpg)Vogue Is Suing a Dog Fashion Magazine. Guess What It’s Called.](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/style/vogue-conde-nast-dogue-magazine-lawsuit.html) [![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/06/20/fashion/socialqs-2021-artwork/socialqs-2021-artwork-thumbLarge-v2.jpg)My Relative Takes Forever to Reply to My Texts. 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But now it’s quite literally trying to kill her, and her sister too. In one extended sequence, the violence tips over from cartoonish to uncomfortably graphic, and just keeps going; you realize that the entitlement and misogyny of these horrible, soul-sick hunters has rotted them from the inside beyond all salvation. Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Rated R for much murder and blood, and lots of bad language. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. In theaters. #### Ready or Not 2: Here I Come NYT Critic’s Pick [Find Tickets](https://www.imdb.com/showtimes/title/tt33978029?ref_=ref_ext_NYT) When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett Writers Guy Busick, R. 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Readable Markdown	Advertisement [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/movies/ready-or-not-2-review.html#after-top) Critic’s Pick Grace must once again survive the night, this time with her sister, in a gory, unhinged sequel that harbors a bleaker heart than the original. ![Two women sit in a large room restrained to chairs, both with bloodstained clothes. The woman on the left looks distressed, while the woman on the right screams. Several people are in the background, watching them in a dimly lit room.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/20/multimedia/19cul-readyornot-review1-cztf/19cul-readyornot-review1-cztf-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Samara Weaving, right, with Kathryn Newton in “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.”Credit...Searchlight Pictures March 19, 2026 Ready or Not 2: Here I Come NYT Critic’s Pick Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett Comedy, Horror, Thriller R 1h 48m “Eat the rich” entertainment — which is more or less exactly what it sounds like — isn’t entirely new. But for hardly mysterious reasons, the mini-genre has flourished in recent years. Movies like “Parasite,” “Saltburn,” “Blink Twice” and “Glass Onion,” and shows like “White Lotus” and “Succession” skewer the ultrawealthy and offer audiences a certain kind of catharsis. Sometimes the fun is in imagining these people to be ridiculous and secretly miserable. Sometimes, it’s in actually watching the less privileged experience some measure of triumph. Most of these stories have been popular, or acclaimed, or both. But few have gone at their task with as much deranged, gory glee as [“Ready or Not” (2019)](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/movies/ready-or-not-review.html), in which a new bride named Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers her in-laws, the Le Domas family, are not run-of-the-mill rich weirdos but kooky Satanists whose ancestors, in return for fabulous wealth, sold their souls to some guy named Mr. Le Bail, a.k.a. Old Nick, a.k.a. the devil. The traditional wedding festivities involve playing games to honor the Man Downstairs, and Grace, now prey, had to survive the night. Which she did, covered in the blood of her erstwhile exploded family members. (When Mr. Le Bail is displeased, spontaneous combustion occurs.) “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” picks up where we left off, with Grace smoking a cigarette on the steps of the family home, triumphant but traumatized. She needs medical attention, and when she wakes up in a hospital bed we soon learn how this new installment intends to keep the saga going. It turns out the Le Domas clan were but one of a cabal of world-ruling, Satan-worshiping families, and now that the family line has effectively ended, with only Grace left, there’s a potential vacancy in the cabal’s highest position of power — the “chair.” Because of an arcane set of rules, now all of the families must gather at a palatial manor for another night of hunting Grace, presided over by The Lawyer (Elijah Wood), Mr. Le Bail’s congenial right-hand man, who will make sure all the rules are followed. And so they hunt, gathering at the hereditary home of the Danforth family, whose patriarch Chester Danforth (David Cronenberg) has recently passed away, handing the reins to his twin children, Titus (Shawn Hatosy) and Ursula (Sarah Michelle Gellar). The head of each family will hunt only with the weapons available when their family made their deal with Mr. Le Bail. The Danforth twins, as equal firstborns, will fight together. But other clan heads will take up arms alone: Ignacio (Nestor Carbonell), of the El Caídos; Chen Xing (Olivia Cheng), of the Wans; and Madhu (Varun Saranga), of the Rajans. As luck would have it, though, Grace does have one family member: her sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton) — the naming here is not so subtle — from whom Grace has been estranged but who was listed as her next of kin and thus showed up at the hospital. So Faith gets hauled into the whole mess too, and the games begin. “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” is a worthy sequel, repeating some of the same beats as its predecessor, but cleverly reinvented so that it’s still unpredictable and hilariously bizarre. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who make films under the collective called Radio Silence, return to the film’s helm, managing a tricky balance of horror, comedy and at times genuine cruelty and pathos. Working with the cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz, they craft a world that’s lush and sinister. By the end, they explicitly draw on early Renaissance paintings, a move that’s both over the top and surprisingly meaningful. The film would work just fine without flourishes like this, but that’s what makes it so good. Weaving carries most of the movie, balancing a traumatized delicacy with determined, believable ferocity, but Newton is a badass in her own right, and her arrival lends instant depth and sympathy to these two hunted women. The rest of the characters are barely built out, but don’t really need to be, because they’re just types: the schemer, the coward, the misogynist and so on. The most delightful is Wood as the devil’s attorney; how lucky we are that he’s chosen to spend so much time of late playing weird little guys. There is an inherent silliness to the whole premise of these movies, baked in by the writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, that hovers somewhere between medieval fable and uncomfortably plausible conspiracy theory. It’s no longer hard to believe that all of the world’s richest, most powerful people are in cahoots, if it ever really was. Making them all subject to an ancient Faustian bargain seems barely metaphorical. And while the humor is goofy — it’s hard not to laugh when people are ducking and running for cover because someone is about to explode — it’s a zaniness that feels almost frantic, in a way that really works. “Ready or Not” was dark, no doubt, but there’s something more bleak in the heart of “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.” Grace, who was a survivor of terrible circumstances even before all this nonsense began, has always lived in a world that wasn’t built to help her succeed. But now it’s quite literally trying to kill her, and her sister too. In one extended sequence, the violence tips over from cartoonish to uncomfortably graphic, and just keeps going; you realize that the entitlement and misogyny of these horrible, soul-sick hunters has rotted them from the inside beyond all salvation. Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Rated R for much murder and blood, and lots of bad language. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. In theaters. [Alissa Wilkinson](https://www.nytimes.com/by/alissa-wilkinson) is a Times movie critic. She’s been writing about movies since 2005. A version of this article appears in print on March 20, 2026, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: An Even Darker Dive Into the Gore. 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