Don’t you just love it when your streaming service adds a film to its roster that you’ve had on your watch list for ages? After missing it the first few times round, I finally saw Ready or Not, directed by Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. It was everything I hoped for – a gory, gothic fable that skewers the rich, quite literally, while delivering one of the most entertaining horror-comedies in recent memory.

Grace marries into the Le Domas family, whose fortune comes from a board game empire and whose traditions are, shall we say, unconventional. On her wedding night, she draws the unlucky “Hide and Seek” card from an old box, initiating part of a time-honoured ritual that turns into a deadly manhunt across the family’s sprawling, secret-riddled estate. The rules? Survive until dawn. The stakes? Her life, and possibly her soul.

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