Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come (2026)
2019's Ready Or Not was a high-concept horror-comedy that delivered scares, laughs, and a breakout lead performance from Samara Weaving. The sequel, Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come, has its pleasures but suffers from the same issues that befall most sequels.
The film picks up right where the original left off as Grace (Weaving) is injured, covered in blood, and on the steps in front of her ex-in-laws' burning estate. It's revealed that the hide-and-seek game is part of a larger network of sinister mega-rich families, and her win has triggered a new game where the winner gets to control the world. It's best not to think too much about the lore, and the movie mercifully avoids getting bogged down in it the way, say, the John Wick sequels did.
Grace initially refuses to play, but the rich families (featuring a sister-and-brother duo played by Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shawn Hatosy) have also kidnapped her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) and threatened her life if Grace does not comply.
There's one sight gag that got this critic to laugh out loud and a fun fight scene where both characters are blinded with pepper spray. However, like most sequels, it suffers a bit from "been there, done that." Grace and Faith mostly bicker in their scenes in between the fighting, so it's hard to get too invested in that relationship, but Weaving once again makes for an easy heroine to root for.
Ready
Or Not 2: Here I Come doesn't dishonor the original, but it still falls a few
steps of short of what the first film achieved.
