By: Dominic La-Viola
The trailer for the highly anticipated Ready or Not 2 dropped yesterday, and this is what we know so far.
The Le Domas, which, if you don’t remember, is the family dynasty in which Grace was supposed to marry into, although the game of the night was hide and seek. Unluckily for her.
To which the rules were simple: the only way to survive is to make it until dawn without being found and killed. To which she succeeded, whereas all before her failed.
Now in the first trailer for the latest in the franchise. We learn that they were not the only family involved in this satanic ritual.
That since she won, she triggered a new game against the high council families. This time, double or nothing.
She wins, she wins it all, the entire fortune; she loses, she dies.
Now at first, she refuses to play, which then triggers them to blackmail her by threatening to kill her sister. Which I’m pretty sure she didn’t have in the first one.
If I remember correctly, she didn’t have a family; that’s why she was so adamant about getting married, for she grew up as an orphan. One that feared her in-laws saw her as only a gold digger.
Now with that being said, I’m sure they’ll find a way to make it work in the script. She’s a “sister”, long lost, or someone she grew up in the foster system with. Someone who’s like a sister, but she lost touch with.
The trailer then goes on to show us them being hunting in the game of hide and seek, which is really more a game of hide and hunt, now that all parties are aware of the situation and conquest.
Although a potential plot hole aside. My biggest problem with this trailer is the clip where they show the one guy explode on her.
Like really, in the first one, Alex succumbs to the cure at the end and explodes…. All over her because she was still alive at dawn. It seems that someone wasn’t paying attention or had never seen the first film in which they were hired to cut the trailer for its sequel; literally, they cut the ending scene in the trailer. Or… it was intentional to throw us off. Although I don’t think so. Because why else would he randomly combust like that?
Even with that being said, I’m still excited to see this movie. We have two next-generation scream queens starting in this film. I mean, what more could you want! We’re given both Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton. Two actresses well on their way to the Scream Queen Hall of Fame. I mean, the only thing left I really need to see is Kathryn Newton in a Scream movie.
Kevin Williamson, it’s not too late. You could easily add another random kill scene in Scream 7 and have Kathryn Newton in it. Or better yet, write her a leading part in Scream 8… we know an eighth is coming. At this point, Scream is going to break double digits. It has to.