2019’s Ready or Not didn’t just eat the rich—it shot, stabbed, maimed, dismembered, and literally blew them up.
It was class warfare on a delirious black-comedy scale, and now it’s back to dish out even more gleefully deranged punishment to the 1% with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.
After taking the reins of an already established franchise by helming Scream (V) and Scream VI, co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett strive to transform their breakout horror hit into its own series with the new sequel (March 20, in theaters). Upping the ante in order to compensate for the fact that their conceit’s novelty has mostly worn off, the directors put Samara Weaving through a vicious wringer while giving her a comrade-in-arms in co-star Kathryn Newton.
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