Before Ready or Not became a cult classic — and before teenage kids everywhere were dressing up as her blood-soaked fictional character for Halloween — Samara Weaving‘s manager was standing in the middle of a Los Angeles shopping centre trying to give away tickets to strangers.
“We just didn’t think anyone would want to see it,” Weaving says over Zoom, laughing at the memory. When the film was released in 2019, expectations were low. It was niche for its genre,…

