2019's darkly comedic horror satire Ready Or Not was a surprise hit with audiences and critics alike and featured a very familiar looking mansion as its primary setting. Ready Or Not had a breakout performance from star Samara Weaving, who got her start on Ash Vs Evil Dead, and has since rapidly established herself as one of the horror genre's pre-eminent leading ladies. The Australian actor has starred in everything from Mayhem to McG's The Babysitter franchise, but perhaps her most critically adored outing is the hilarious—and timely—satirical horror.

The movie tells the simple story of an ordinary everywoman (Weaving) who marries into a rich clan, only for them to hunt and attempt to kill her on her wedding night as part of a bizarre sacrificial ritual which safeguards their wealth and opulent lifestyles. The family's super-rich status is evidenced by their mansion home, a booby-trap-and-secret-passage-infested Gothic revival manor. Ready Or Not delights in subverting every audience expectation, so why does such a theoretically threatening location feel so familiar for viewers?

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Located in Toronto, Casa Loma serves as the backdrop to all the bloody action in Ready Or Not. The reason it feels so familiar is that viewers have seen it in everything from Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, to X-Men, to Chicago. The mansion also served as the titular Beast's castle in the 2017 live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast and was even Dr. Frank N. Furter's abode in the critically-maligned redo, Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again. Beginning construction in 1911, the iconic location has an appropriately strange and dramatic history.

Grace smiling whilst covered in blood

With its original owner unable to fund its finished construction (over $3 million), which might have something to do with the three bowling alleys in the basement, the building was sold for half that amount. In a bit of real-life infamy that The Shining's Awanhee Hotel could only dream of, the mansion was soon used as a Prohibition-era speakeasy for wealthy Americans. After Prohibition, the mansion fell into ruin except for possibly being used as a top-secret sonar research center circa WWII until from 1997-2012. $33 million was used to renovate and transform Casa Loma into the well-known location it now is. It's a canny choice for the film's location, as the familiarity lulls audiences into a subconscious sense of security and leaves viewers certain that this uber-rich dysfunctional clan couldn't be that evil.

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After all, the Le Domas' family home is familiar to film fans, and they're played by the likes of Groundhog Day's Andi McDowell and The OC's Adam Brody, so surely this game of hide-and-seek couldn't really be a matter of life and death. As proven by Get Out, horror movies have changed in the 21st century, so the decision to cast recognizable faces and set the film in a famous location underlines just how much Ready Or Not seeks to set up the super-rich as its potential protagonists before revealing them to be monsters.

Ready Or Not further subverts audience expectations by rarely letting the wealthy family get their hands dirty until its demented ending, with much of the chasing being done by their underlings. It's a sharp bit of social commentary illustrated in gruesome—and guiltily hilarious—terms that would have made Wes Craven, who was known for his sly social commentary in horror movies, proud. It's no wonder the directors will soon be seen helming the upcoming Scream 5.

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