Weaving, whose engagingly expressive face should help her get past comparisons to near-lookalike Margot Robbie, has been here before: In 2017’s Mayhem, she played a victim of corporate greed who got an unusual opportunity to kill nearly everyone responsible for putting her house into foreclosure. Some, like his brother Daniel (Adam Brody), may be ambivalent enough about human sacrifice to slow the hunt down but his mother (Andie MacDowell) and frighteningly witchy aunt Helene (Nicky Guadagni, with fierce eyes and an upswept thicket of gray hair) truly believe in a curse that will kill them all if Grace isn’t dead by dawn. Alex’s coked-up sister Emilie (Melanie Scrofano) provides some shock-violent comic relief, and as the chase heats up, we realize that the only lives these people value less than Grace’s are those of their assorted nannies and housekeepers.Īlex is covertly trying to help Grace, but there’s only so much he can do while his relatives squabble. Fortunately, her pursuers - who last played this particular game a couple of decades ago - aren’t a crackerjack squad of assassins. And you thought drunk uncles’ long-winded champagne toasts were a high price to pay for a storybook wedding.Īs soon as we’re beyond scenes of explanation and panicked disbelief, Grace is racing through the hallways of the locked-tight mansion, trying to dodge the crossbows, axes and antique firearms the family has trained on her. Or it could be a version of Hide and Seek in which one hider (that’d be Grace) must stay alive until dawn while everyone else tries to kill her. Any person marrying into the family must, at midnight on her wedding night, play a randomly selected game with everyone else. Then we learn that this family, deeply superstitious about the origins of its fortune, has a peculiar initiation ritual.
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