Badlands Story Hour Ep. 191: Ready or Not

Chris Paul and Burning Bright break down Ready or Not (2019), the horror comedy starring Samara Weaving and Adam Brody about a bride forced to play a deadly game of hide and seek with her new husband's wealthy family on her wedding night. They talk about how Hollywood launches actresses through horror, the rules of the Le Domas family's game, and what the film says about elites and the grievance trap. In the second half they dig into the ritual itself, a family that serves the devil without believing in it, the film as Pascal's wager turned upside down, the origins of the name Le Bail and its link to Belial, and the black cube symbolism they first explored in their 2001: A Space Odyssey episode. Next week: Seven Days in May (1964).