Exclusive: Celebrate The UK Release Of READY OR NOT With This Horror Comedy Featurette
To celebrate the UK release of Ready or Not, distributor Fox Searchlight provided us with the following exclusive featurette about some of the best horror comedies released over the years, so you should definitely give it a read if you’re a fan of the sub-genre.
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Ready or Not played in wide release across the US and was screened at FrightFest. We also awarded it a highly positive review, calling it a ‘devilishly good time’. In other words, you would be mad not to catch Ready or Not on the big screen.
The film stars Samara Weaving as a newly married woman who is forced to compete in a literal game of death by her new in-laws. Adam Brody also appears as her husband, with the supporting cast including Andie MacDowell, Mark O’Brien, Melanie Scrofano, Henry Czerny, and Elyse Levesque.
Ready or Not is now playing in cinemas across the UK, and you can find the exclusive featurette from Fox Searchlight below.
READY OR NOT
BEST COMEDY HORRORS
The new horror comedy, READY OR NOT, follows young bride, Grace, as she joins her new husband’s rich, eccentric family in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
As the horror unfolds, Grace is forced to fight off and hide in the nooks and crannies of her new in-law’s creepy old mansion leaving audience goers sitting at the edge of their seats and giving plenty of laugh out loud moments.
To mark the UK release of READY OR NOT, which is now open in cinemas, we look at some of the best horror comedies.
SHAUN OF THE DEAD, Edgar Wright (2004)
Co-written by and starring Simon Pegg, SHAUN OF THE DEAD see’s Pegg (Shaun)and Nick Frost (Ed) caught in a zombie apocalypse. Shaun is a salesman in an electronic store and has little motivation or direction in life. After his girlfriend breaks up with him and he decides to drown his sorrows in the pub with Ed and his housemates. Shaun and Ed are slow to notice the zombie attack and it’s only when they head into the garden that they discover two zombies on the lawn. They kill them and go on a mission to save family and friends and escape the apocalypse. However, Shaun and Ed’s flee to safety isn’t so smooth.
GHOSTBUSTERS, Ivan Reitman (1984)
GHOSTBUSTERS. The epitome of horror comedy inspired by Dan Aykroyd’s fascination and belief in the paranormal. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, who are eccentric parapsychologists investigating the paranormal at University in New York. After an encounter with a ghost, they decide to create ‘Ghostbusters’ a paranormal investigation and elimination service. Paranormal activity rapidly increases across New York and the Ghostbusters are swept off their feet trying to capture the ghosts and save everyone from paranormal attacks.
ZOMBIELAND, Rubin Fleischer (2009)
ZOMBIELAND follows Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Spreading across the entire United States, an outbreak of mad cow disease, turned into an outbreak of mad person disease which turned into an outbreak of mad zombie disease. Before long, America is full of dangerous, death-hunting zombies. Eisenberg meets Harrelson, Stone and Breslin on his way to seek safety and the four of them end up taking a road-trip around South America in an attempt to find a sanctuary free from zombies.
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, Drew Goddard (2012)
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS sees a bunch of college students spend their weekend in what they think is an abandoned cabin in the woods. However, the cabin is being remotely controlled from an underground lab and the students are manipulated through intoxication that reduces logical thinking… and increases libido. Whilst at the cabin, the students face a brutal zombie attack and try to escape, but the engineers in the lab block them from doing so. The film sees the student’s battel against the engineers in dark ways, but despite this the humour throughout brings a sense of goofiness to the screen.
FRIGHTNIGHT, Craig Gillespie (2011)
A remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 Fright Night, Craig Gillespie’s version differs with its comedic incorporation. Teenager Charley Brewster discovers he has a new neighbour next door called Jerry (Collin Farrell). Charley’s friends from school tell him that students have been going missing and that they think Jerry is a vampire and the one responsible. Charley, who is friendly with Jerry, is offended by the comment and decides to ignore his friends. But of course, his friends are right. More people continue to go missing and Charley himself slowly grows suspicious of Jerry. In an attempt to find out what is really happening, Charley breaks into Jerry’s house and discovers that the missing victims are being kept locked up in the house. Though it may not sound it, this film is rather light-hearted and humorous despite the gory scenes.
READY OR NOT IS IN UK CINEMAS NOW
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