Ready or Not 2: Here I Come: Film Review

Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton are phenomenal in the ridiculously fun and blood soaked Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.

So let’s tackle the biggest issue: Grace MacCaullay (Samara Weaving) survived a deadly game of hide and seek, defeating her husband Alex De Lomas (Mark O’Brien) and his family, who made a deal with the demon-like Mr. Le Bail. That seems like a pretty satisfying ending with not much more you could do. Well, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett managed to find a way to make it work alongside writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. What they’ve come up with is a natural continuation that adds to what came before rather than tainting it. 

This is much more than just a “kill the rich” story now, even with tons of satire with regards to the wealthy and the amount of power they hold. What we have here is a story of family and saving the world from powerful people who want to see it burn for their own benefit. Given where our society is, this narrative was just the escape I needed with one of my favorite final girls in Grace MacCaullay. It’s great seeing her again, especially since Samara Weaving could have carried Ready or Not 2: Here I Come on her own with this performance. She puts every bit of what she can muster into Grace from guttural screams to visible love and sadness written all over her face and then expertly delivers one-liners that are equally badass and hilarious. 

We get to see different sides of Grace here as she becomes the warrior, runner, and protector all wrapped into one. She’s got more improvisational skills this go round but also knows when it’s best to just get out of dodge in service of protecting herself and her younger sister Faith (Kathryn Newton, of Lisa Frankenstein). It’s really interesting seeing Grace’s fighter nature stripped away one minute by shifting her mindset to doing whatever she can to keep Faith safe even if that means running before she ultimately becomes that primal warrior again so that she and especially her sister can survive. 

Faith is the terrified fish out of water, with Newton leaning into that at first before turning this character into a funny, tough final girl worthy of standing alongside Weaving’s Grace. Newton is very much in her element amidst all this chaos and knows how to play to the audience in a horror film and make them root for her. It works too because every bit of her performance feels real, especially when she’s in peril.

The sisters give Ready or Not 2: Here I Come its heart. If you’ve ever had to rebuild a relationship that fell apart despite your love for that never going away, what Grace and Faith go through here will strike a cord with you. They have love for each other but it’s not easy to pick things back up after this person you loved so much cut you out of their life. This is captured perfectly by Weaving and Newton with neither willing to give each other an inch before slowly letting their walls come down as things move along. It feels natural especially since Weaving and Newton have great chemistry. 

Radio Silence have expanded this world in a pretty awesome way by revealing that the cult of Mr. Le Bail extends beyond the De Lomas family and that they were part of a larger group that controls the world. Even though introducing this means we get off to a slow start, it’s worth it in the end. They throw plenty of zingers at rich people and their level of influence and give us a bonkers group of villains to root against. 

Each gets their own moment in the sun, but siblings Ursula and Titus Danforth (Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shawn Hatosy) are fascinating. They’re kind of a parallel to Grace and Faith since these two seem to have forced themselves to stay together for the good of their family and it created this bitterness between them. Watching Gellar play an antagonist is delightful but Shawn Hatosy blew me away. He shifts between being reserved, witty, and terrifying with ease as Titus. You don’t know what’s going to set this guy off and when he snaps, it’s unnerving watching him be so vicious. I’d go as far to say that Titus is more intimidating than the entire De Lomas family and that’s a credit to how he’s written and Hatosy’s performance. 

In terms of blood and gore, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come has so much more than the original and I’m not just talking about exploding bodies. There’s a ton of carnage throughout that it’s impressive on so many levels. The argument can be made that it’s Radio Silence’s bloodiest film, though Abigail (2024) and even Scream VI (2023) can also make cases for that title. So many sequences in this sequel are comedic and creative. There’s a ballroom sequence that had me in a laughing fit because it was so over the top and I can’t recall seeing anything quite like it. Throw in another part of the film that made me laugh and want to throw up at the same time and honestly that’d be plenty, but Radio Silence gives audiences even more.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is nearly as great as the original behind Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton’s sensational, heartfelt sister duo, cool new lore, and tons of blood. While I’ll always be game to watch a third installment, this feels like a great way to end things.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is now available to watch in U.S. theaters and will be released in U.K. and Irish cinemas on April 10, 2026.