Criticism of Come to Play (Come Play), a result horror movie about the childhood universe

Movistar + continues to receive the premiere of many unpublished films in our country, some of which have surrendered well at the box office in other territories. What s more, we dare to say that the one that today occupies us, ven to play , would have made good numbers of having premiered now, near the arrival of Halloween .

The film has been written and directed by Jacob Chase ( Girl in the Woods ) and is available in VOD on the platform since October 24.

It is the remake of the short film larry performed by the Chase itself, which now becomes a length of terror that revolves around Oliver, an autistic and lonely child who one day runs up with A spooky childhood tale on his tablet entitled misunderstood monsters .

What Oliver does not know is that, by reading Larry s story, a solitary and desperate monster for finding friends, he is inviting him to break into his life.

Despite appearances, what really wants Larry is something much more dangerous, which causes Oliver and his family to become the main objective of this monster that materializes through electronic objects such as tablets and mobile phones.

The film works much better in its initial approach than in its resolution, when it begins to show too much.

Just as it happened with the movie Nun again, the light , come to play it takes a great game to technology, since Larry is only visible through electronic objects. In this way, applications as everyday as the camera with filters or the tool itself that Oliver uses to communicate, they become somewhat chilling.

Larry uses said objects as a window to loom into the world of humans, but the purpose of him to turn it into a door with which to cross the threshold.

But in addition, the principal also uses well from the children s world in various ways. Maybe the main element that allows us to empathize with Oliver is that he has a problem that makes him dependent on technology to communicate: he can not talk, so he needs a mobile or tablet to express the thoughts of him.

This is thus introduced a new tension element that, along with the need for Larry to scroll using the electricity and the portal of it towards reality depending on the curiosity of the reader forms a cocktail of the most interesting.

The film come to play also makes it clear that many times the adults are those who complicate life to children . It is not that child cruelty is not exposed to the most vulnerable people, but of course, it is appreciated how those behaviors can be reinforced or reconnected by those responsible for their education.

There is also a good generation of atmospheres with those aspects of the children s world as certain games and recurring views that convert children into terror catalysts : The crazy hand, addiction to series as bob, or the hiding place.

And here, the most original of the film, which makes the restlessness in the viewer come down as it repeats narrative structures (lights that go out gradually, terrifying tale, final scare) and Subtrae some Another idea of ​​other films, as when Larry communicates with the family by changing the TV channels.

Actually, The genre of film terror is afflicted with an obvious exhaustion regarding certain troops and overexploited common places : from the design of the monster , to the style of the scares that sweep with the most interesting points of Come play passing for some other idea of ​​ The invisible man .

The film, yes, it has good interpretations of Gillian Jacobs ( The Calle del Terror Part 1: 1994 ), John Gallagher Jr. ( Underwater ), Azhy Robertson ( invasion ), Winslow Fegley ( Cuellum at night ) and Rachel Wilson ( In the tall grass), among others.

In short, it gives for a vision of face to Halloween. It is not a movie that removes the dream, but it offers a couple of interesting reflections on how we relate , to what extent we need others and how we raised our little ones to engage healthy relationships. It is already much more than they offer similar products.