This year, a wonderful horror movie Ready or Not was released. A gory, funny and entertaining tale centered around a bride, Grace (played by lovely Samara Weaving) having to fight off her new family on her wedding night. The plot's combination of creepy rituals, incompetent antagonists and resilient protagonist instantly reminded me of one of the most creative recent horror films, The Cabin in the Woods. Turns out there's actually lots of similar elements in the two - a creepy older person who instantly serves as a sign of something being wrong, a stoner in the group, the moment where the protagonist unknowingly seals her fate by choosing the item that will be used to bring her demise and many others. There's plenty of visual similarities in storytelling here too with creepy artifacts hiding in the frame and sudden gore exploding on the screen. And then there's the ending which while not that similar when it comes to the events - one being happy, another culminating in the end of the world - mirrors one another visually.
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