#193: Most Dangerous Games, Pt. 2 - Ready or Not

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It’s too early to know whether Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s horror-comedy READY OR NOT will eventually become a cult hit in the manner of 1985’s CLUE, but the two films share a foundation in dangerous games and the even more dangerous people who play them. After parsing how READY OR NOT works as both horror and comedy, and inducting star Samara Weaving into the scream queen hall of fame, we dig into the two films’ crucial central performances, how both incorporate elements of class satire and farce, and the extent to which each is indebted to actual game mechanics. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about CLUE, READY OR NOT, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: • Scott: Ognjen Glavonic’s THE LOAD • Keith: Netflix’s THE DARK CRYSTAL: THE AGE OF RESISTANCE, Criterion’s The Koker Trilogy Box Set, Olive Films’ BUCKET OF BLOOD Blu-ray release • Tasha: “The Crazy Story of How ‘Clue’ Went From Forgotten Flop To Cult Triumph” by Adam B. Vary at Buzzfeed.com Outro music: “The Hide and Seek Song” from READY OR NOT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time
0:22.6	put your phone down
0:23.8	Tombollah
0:24.7	Open for fun
0:26.4	Terms apply 18 plus gamblerware
0:28.7	org
0:29.3	It's very difficult to keep the line
0:34.5	between the past and the present
0:36.1	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.8	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:50.6	Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:56.6	I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with...
0:58.5	Scott Tobias.
0:59.3	Keith Phipps.
1:00.0	Our producer, Genevieve Kovsky, couldn't be here this week.
1:02.7	She went into the conservatory alone with that shadowy figure with a rope in one hand and a pipe in the other, but we figure she's probably fine.
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