Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is a 2026 American comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. It serves as a direct sequel to Ready or Not (2019), with Samara Weaving reprising her role as Grace MacCaullay. The film also stars Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, David Cronenberg, and Elijah Wood. Set immediately after the events of Ready of Not, it follows Grace as she must protect her estranged sister while being hunted by several elite families in a high-stakes ritual to claim a seat of ultimate power.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come premiered at the 2026 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 13, 2026, and was released in the United States by Searchlight Pictures on March 20, 2026. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $12 million.

Seconds after surviving the Le Domas' attempted sacrificial ritual,^[b] Grace MacCaullay collapses outside the property and is taken to a hospital. She reunites with her sister Faith, who she abandoned several years prior.

Meanwhile, the Council, an order of six elite families—the Danforths, the Wans, the Rajans, the El Caidos, the Wilkinsons, and the Le Domas—are notified of the latters' demises and promptly reunite at the Danforth complex for another game. The head members include siblings Ursula and Titus Danforth, Wan Chen Xing, Viraj Rajan, Ignacio El Caido, and Bill Wilkinson.

Prior to their arrival, Ursula and Titus kill their elderly father Chester, the current "High Seat" of the Council, so they can enter the game themselves. Bill attempts to murder Grace at the hospital, but he and the Wilkinsons explode into blood due to failing to wait for the game's ignition. Moments later, Grace and Faith are kidnapped and brought to the complex. They awaken tied and gagged while Le Bail's representative, the "Lawyer", explains their new situation: due to Grace's unplanned victory at the Le Domas' hide-and-seek game, the four remaining families must kill her before dawn to acquire the High Seat and a ring with seemingly infinite worldwide power will be provided to the winner. Grace initially refuses to participate, but agrees when Faith's life is put at stake. The eldest members sign a blood oath and the game begins.

Grace and Faith are handcuffed together and put on a golf course, where they run away from oncoming danger and flee around the property. After evading numerous life-threatening scenarios, the sisters manage to kill Viraj using an industrial washing machine. They are confronted by Chen Xing, who reveals an open bypass in the game's rules: if Grace marries one of the elite's family members, the game would immediately cease, granting her husband the High Seat and she would be allowed to live. Ignacio interrupts them, and Chen Xing unintentionally plunges a katana into his throat, killing him. Due to a now-broken game rule, the Wans explode into blood; Faith criticizes Grace's refusal of the opportunity, yet they continue towards the main gate.

Viraj's sister-in-law Martina, forced to play due to her husband Madhu's surrender of family head status and assets after Viraj's death, drives off from the hunt and destroys the gate in the process. Ursula nearly kills Grace, but the sisters flee. Grace lambasts Faith's clumsiness and wishes they had never reunited, leading a heartbroken Faith to leave her alone. Titus attacks Faith and kidnaps her while Ignacio's daughter Francesca targets Grace, though she eventually acquires a shotgun and kills her. Through an intercom, Titus taunts Grace and forces her to come to the main lounge where Faith is held captive.

Grace storms into the lounge where the surviving families quickly corner. Using Chen Xing's aforementioned law circumvent, Grace agrees to marry Titus to ensure her and Faith's safety, effectively handing over the High Seat to the Danforths and concluding the game. Before the wedding, Ursula privately warns Grace about Titus' psychopathy and fears what could transpire under his order. Titus overhears the conversation and kills Ursula, mentioning there is no rule against killing family members. At an underground altar, the marriage ensues to a crowd of Satanic cult members as well as the remaining families, despite her tearful reluctance.

After they sign their intertwined familial blood pacts, Grace stabs Titus with a fountain pen, throwing his own statement of there being no rule against killing family members back at him, and kicks him into an open circular pit full of decompsed bodies, killing him. Now housing ownership of the High Seat, Grace announces her removal from the organization and throws the ring into the pit. With the rules now proclaiming that whomever wears the ring first at dawn obtains the High Seat, the remaining Danforth, Rajan, and El Caido relatives jump into it for a chance at acquisition, murdering each other as they do; no one succeeds before dawn and the entire Council, minus the Lawyer, erupts into a torrential blood explosion amidst the area.

Le Bail's spirit briefly appears and nods to both Grace and Faith as they are finally free. The sisters leave the premises holding hands, with Grace promising never to leave Faith again.

• Samara Weaving as Grace MacCaullay, the former daughter-in-law of the Le Domas family and the winner of hide-and-seek game
• Kathryn Newton as Faith MacCaullay, Grace's estranged younger sister who her abandoned several years prior
• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Ursula Danforth, the eldest daughter of the Danforth family
• Shawn Hatosy as Titus Danforth, Ursula's twin brother
• David Cronenberg as Chester Danforth, the head of the Danforth family
• Elijah Wood as "the Lawyer", a representative of Le Bail
• Néstor Carbonell as Ignacio El Caido, the head of the El Caido family
• Kevin Durand as Bill Wilkinson, the head of the Wilkinson family
• Olivia Cheng as Wan Chen Xing, the head of the Wan family
• Varun Saranga as Madhu Rajan, Viraj's brother
• Nadeem Umar-Khitab as Viraj Rajan, the head of the Rajan family
• Juan Pablo Romero as Felipe El Caido, Ignacio's son
• Masa Lizdek as Martina Rajan, Madhu's wife
• Maia Jae as Francesca El Caido, Ignacio's daughter and Alex Le Domas' ex-fiancée
• Dan Beirne as Kip Danforth, Ursula and Titus' cousin
• Antony Hall as Wan Cheng Fu, Chen Xing's son

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett were developing an original movie with a sister story for Kathryn Newton and Samara Weaving to star in. When Searchlight Pictures asked Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett to direct the sequel to Ready or Not, they offered to adapt their original sister story into the Ready or Not universe, and Searchlight Pictures agreed.^[5]

At an October 12, 2024, special screening of Ready or Not (2019), Searchlight Pictures officially announced that it was developing a sequel with Radio Silence Productions. Weaving would reprise her role from the original film. Also returning were writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy and the original producing team.^[6] Newton officially joined the cast in March 2025.^[7]

Principal photography began in Toronto on April 21, 2025, while Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood, Kevin Durand, David Cronenberg, Shawn Hatosy, and Néstor Carbonell joined the cast. Meanwhile, the title was revealed as Ready or Not: Here I Come.^[8] Filming had concluded by June 2, 2025, and the film was retitled Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.^[9] Olivia Cheng was revealed to have been cast.^[10]

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come premiered at the SXSW on March 13, 2026, and was released on March 20, 2026.^[11] It was originally scheduled for April 10, 2026, and March 27, 2026.^[9][12][13]

As of March 22, 2026, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come has grossed $9 million in the United States and Canada, and $3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $12 million.^[4]

In the United States and Canada, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come was released alongside Project Hail Mary and The Pout-Pout Fish, and was projected to gross around $11 million in its opening weekend.^[14] The film earned $1.2 million from Thursday night previews.^[15] It went on to debut to $9.1 million, finishing in fourth.^[16]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 75% of 146 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Tempting fate by picking up where it left off after an extended absence, Ready or Not 2 cheats the sequel curse thanks in large part to Samara Weaving's ferocious commitment to the bloody bit."^[17] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 59 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[18] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.^[19]

Deadline's Glenn Garner called the film "a bloody good time", and wrote, "This action-packed, blood-soaked sequel is just what fans have been waiting for the past seven years, hopefully paving the way for a trilogy in this sinister world Radio Silence has created."^[20] Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting gave the film a 3 and a half stars out of 5, and wrote, "More is more in Ready or Not 2. Bigger stakes, larger playing field, a higher (and more gruesome) body count, and even double the protagonists. All designed to deliver maximum crowd-pleasing fun. It more than delivers on that front, even if it loses some of the original magic in the process."^[21] BJ Colangelo of /Film wrote, "Ready Or Not 2 goes double or nothing and plays for keeps. Either you get on board with the way the world is changing, or you die. It's really that simple."^[22] Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote, "In a year when news stories have proliferated about the unchecked evil at the core of so many business and seats of power around the world, there’s something almost comforting about watching an ordinary woman and her sister fight the system right down to the bowels of Hell. We could all use a few more fighters like Grace."^[23]

Variety's Owen Gleiberman gave a more mixed review, saying that the film will satisfy the fans of the first film, while further stating, "If there’s ever a Ready or Not 3 it would be good to see the elites in it do something that’s as interesting as it is brutal."^[24]

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• Ready or Not 2: Here I Come at IMDb