Tag: Evil Dead 2 comparison

Last night I walked out of my local AMC into the cool spring evening full of energy. My thumbs wrote with lightning speed, embodying the spirit of a 1920s reporter firing off telegrams across the nation. Cartoon radio lines started emanating from nearby 5G towers as my Discord messages and Bluesky posts hit the airwaves, all carrying the same message: READY OR NOT 2 HAS THE JUICE. 

I missed out on Ready or Not (2019) fever back in the day. I heard, as millions did, that was surprisingly fun for how rote the trailer looked. A pseudo-horror action comedy that had fun ideas and a good cast of character actors, but it just happened to be coming out at a time when it could easily be written off as “another one of those movies” during the deluge of game adaptations and escape room-esque horror premises. 

While the original is not perfect, it’s charming enough and I bet it’s real fun with a group of people. Then the trailers for the sequel debuted and made it clear directors Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin understood the weak points of the first movie and fixed them.