The Radio Silence guys nail that tone to deliver a film that builds suspense and delivers laughs. Both rely on careful building of tension to a punchline or release.įox Searchlight This is how the La Domas family welcomes the newest addition to the family in "Ready or Not," a new film made by the collective known as Radio Silence. Some may not think the two have anything in common but horror and comedy are actually similar.
And both films display a knack for finding the link between horror and comedy. "Ready or Not" is a horror-comedy that recalls a little of the tone and feel of the recent "You're Next." Both films have a spunky female outsider dealing with a whacked family and stuck in one location. The family believes that if they fail to kill her by dawn then a curse will fall on them and they will all die. Simple enough, right? It's a big mansion with plenty of places to hide, so Grace should be able to give them a run for their money.īut the family’s not entirely upfront about the rules, which include the fact that they are trying to kill her. Grace draws a card to play hide and seek. Grace (Samara Weaving) is marrying into the ridiculously rich Le Domas family and since they built their empire on games they have a tradition of making new family members play one on their wedding night. The script for "Ready or Not" by Gary Busick and Ryan Murphy, starts with a simple premise: meeting the in-laws can be hell.Įveryone knows weddings can be stressful but Grace’s is going to require extreme survival skills that no wedding planner could ever prepare her for. With "Ready or Not" it was a script offered to them and they felt it matched their interests. Radio Silence got initial traction as online pranksters who posted videos of their successes and failures. However the duties breakdown on "Ready or Not," the important thing is that the group creates a kind of alchemy that results in a hugely entertaining horror-comedy. The collaborative has contributed segments to such anthology films as "V/H/S" and "Southbound" as well as doing the feature "Devil's Due." Although only Bettineli-Olpin and Gillett are credited on "Ready or Not" as the directors, Villella was also part of the creative team on the set every day. I think it was just a reminder for us to continue to make stuff, and it was going to be about not asking for permission and to just go and do and tell the stories that we wanted to tell.
We wanted nothing more than to continue to make projects that we would say yes and then never hear back. Let's find a project to do.' And we, of course, were saying yes to everything. We had this very do-it-yourself mentality and we were starting to get some followers for the stuff we were making online, and we were getting a handful of meetings around town and we were oftentimes having conversations with people and that would end with, 'Hey, we should work together on something. So Gillett explained: "I guess it's based on the way that we all started working together. Radio Silence, a creative collective that started on the web, is making some noise with its new feature film " Ready or Not."įor my Cinema Junkie podcast I recently interviewed the creative trio behind Radio Silence - Chad Villella, Matt Bettineli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett - and asked about the name of their group, which seemed odd for a collaborative working so vocally in film, podcast and web.
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