‘Ready or Not,’ here comes Samara Weaving as Hollywood’s newest horror heroine

Samara Weaving is becoming horror’s go-to actress, even though she doesn’t actually love watching scary movies.

Her fiancé, Jimmy Warden, recently shared a video on social media of the Australian actress watching a scene from “It” – specifically, when evil clown Pennywise is luring a little boy to his doom – and she lived up to being a Hollywood scream queen.

“I didn’t know he was filming me!” says Weaving, who stars in the new horror comedy “Ready or Not” (in theaters Wednesday). “I liked the story, but the gore is too much.” 

The 27-year-old rising star has already proved adept at playing villains – especially as the hot but satanic babysitter in her breakthrough, Netflix’s “The Babysitter.”

“People saw that and were like, ‘OK, she can be evil,'” she said.

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A game of hide-and-seek goes south quickly for a new bride (Samara Weaving) in the horror comedy "Ready or Not." (Photo: ERIC ZACHANOWICH)

But Weaving is all good as the heroine Grace in “Ready or Not.” Her character, a former foster kid yearning to be part of a family, marries into a rich, game-crazy clan. On her wedding night, however, a lively round of hide-and-seek turns deadly when her new in-laws try to murder the bride with guns, knives, crossbows, axes and whatever else they can get their hands on.  

Weaving – who’s now filming “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” the third film starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as time-traveling, air-guitaring dudes – has also been seen wielding a grudge and a massive nail gun in the horror comedy “Mayhem” and appeared on the blood-drenched TV show “Ash vs. Evil Dead.”

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Grace (Samara Weaving) gets covered in blood and guts but still manages a grin in "Ready or Not." (Photo: FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES)

Grace has one hellish night. So why is she smiling?

Weaving’s protagonist navigates through a massive amount of insanity during the course of “Ready or Not”: She’s “in shock for the first kind of big revelation” that she’s hiding and they’re murderously seeking, turns anxious and desperate, but then just snaps when she becomes “almost fed up and determined to survive,” the actress says. (You’d be perturbed, too, being shot at while covered in goat guts.) At one point, though, she can’t help but grin. “Me personally, when I get bad news, like really bad news, sometimes you have that reaction of just a relief because of how insane life is,” Weaving says. “And you just have to laugh about it or you’re just going to have to go to an asylum.”

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