Ready or Not 2: Here I Come premiered at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 13, 2026, and was released theatrically in the United States by Searchlight Pictures on March 20. The film received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and has grossed $31.4 million.
Plot
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 younger sister Faith, whom she has not spoken to since she left for college.
Meanwhile, the Council, an order of six elite families are notified of the Le Domas' demises and prepare to unite at the Danforth complex for another game. The head members include twin 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 simultaneously. Bill attempts to kill Grace at the hospital, but he and the Wilkinsons explode in a shower of blood due to failing to wait for the game's official commencement. 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 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. The players are not allowed to kill each other, and their deaths allow the next eldest member of their family to enter. 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. After evading attempts from different families, the sisters manage to kill Viraj in an industrial washing machine. Chen Xing finds them and reveals a loophole: if Grace marries one of the elite's family members, the game immediately ceases, granting her husband the High Seat and allowing her to live. Grace refuses as it would mean selling her soul. Ignacio interrupts them, and Chen Xing unintentionally kills him with a katana. The Wans explode into blood as Ignacio's daughter and Alex Le Domas' ex-fiancée Francesca prepares to enter the game. Faith criticizes Grace's refusal of the opportunity.
Viraj's death allows his brother Madhu to enter the game, but he forfeits head status to his wife Martina. Instead of playing, she drives off from the hunt and destroys the gate in the process. Ursula nearly kills Grace, but Faith saves her and the sisters flee. Grace lambasts Faith's return and wishes they had never reunited, leading a heartbroken Faith to leave. Titus attacks Faith and kidnaps her while Francesca targets Grace, though the latter eventually acquires a shotgun and kills her. Through an intercom, Titus taunts Grace and forces her to the main lounge where Faith is held captive.
Grace storms into the lounge but is cornered by the surviving players. Using Chen Xing's loophole, Grace agrees to marry Titus to ensure her and Faith's safety, handing over the High Seat to the Danforths and concluding the game despite Faith begging her not to. Before the wedding, Ursula privately warns Grace about Titus' psychopathy and her fears of what could transpire under his order. Ursula suggests that she and Grace work together to control Titus after the marriage. Titus, having overheard, kills Ursula, as there is no rule against killing family members. At an underground altar, the marriage ensues before a crowd of Satanic cult members.
After they sign their intertwined familial blood pacts, Grace stabs Titus with a fountain pen, throwing his "no rule against killing family members" statement back at him, and Faith kicks him into an open circular pit full of sacrificed bodies, killing him. Now housing ownership of the High Seat, Grace announces her removal from the organization and throws the ring into the pit. Since the High Seat now belongs to whoever is wearing the ring at dawn, the wedding guests all jump into the pit for a chance at acquisition, murdering each other as they do; no one succeeds before dawn and the entire Council, excluding 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 alongside the Council's sacrificial goat, and Grace promises never to leave Faith again.
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.[8] Newton officially joined the cast in March 2025.[9]
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come premiered at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 13, 2026, and was released on March 20, 2026.[13] It was originally scheduled for April 10, 2026, and March 27, 2026.[11][14][15]
Reception
Box office
As of April5,2026[update], Ready or Not 2: Here I Come has grossed $20.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $11.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $31.4 million.[4][5]
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.[16] The film earned $1.2 million from Thursday night previews.[17] It went on to debut to $9.1 million, finishing in fourth.[18] In its second weekend, the film dropped 56%, earning $4 million.[19]
Critical response
Metacritic review breakdown (unweighted)
Positive
15 (44%)
Mixed
17 (50%)
Negative
2 (6%)
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 73% of 204 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."[20]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[21] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[22]
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."[23] 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."[24] 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."[25] 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."[26]
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."[27]
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