Mel Valentin
4 min readAug 21, 2019

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Ready or Not’ Delivers All the Class-Conscious Thrills, Chills, and Kills Anyone Could Ask For

A girl, a bandolier, and a shotgun.

Give the devil his due. For all its faults and warts, the Purge series has provided moviegoers with seemingly endless entertainment value from the simplest, most basic, taboo-breaking premise, Homo sapiens hunting other Homo sapiens, a premise that formed the basis for Richard Connell’s famous, 1924 short story and the relatively well-known 1932 big-screen adaptation. Since…