{"id":99958,"date":"2020-10-29T02:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-bland-mixtape-of-far-better-horror-films\/"},"modified":"2020-10-29T02:39:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:39:30","slug":"a-bland-mixtape-of-far-better-horror-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-bland-mixtape-of-far-better-horror-films\/","title":{"rendered":"#A bland mixtape of far better horror films"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A bland mixtape of far better horror films<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The big question of the new horror film \u201cCome Play\u201d: Do I know you?<\/em><\/p>\n

The d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu begins as a young boy reads aloud a mysterious illustrated children\u2019s book called \u201cMisunderstood Monsters,\u201d albeit on a mobile phone, and the creature in the story reveals itself to be real.<\/p>\n

Call your lawyer, Mister Babadook!<\/p>\n

This nightmarish being, we learn, is only visible to humans using screens, such as through the camera on your phone. It communicates verbally via the TV and tosses around furniture like a beach ball. Might wanna join Babadook\u2019s lawsuit, \u201cPoltergeist.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can tell the beast is nearby because lightbulbs flicker (\u201cStranger Things\u201d), and initially just one kid believes its presence while no one heeds his warning (\u201cChild\u2019s Play\u201d). Writer-director Jacob Chase\u2019s creepy clip show isn\u2019t maddening or poorly made, but all the borrowing makes it clear that nothing new is going to happ<\/a>en here. Hate surprises? Have I got the movie for you!<\/p>\n

The kid, Oliver (Azhy Robertson), is confused to discover the \u201cMonsters\u201d story pop on his smartphone one day. He\u2019s autistic, and uses the device to communicate at school. \u201cMeet Larry,\u201d the picture book reads. \u201cLarry just wants a friend.\u201d You see, Larry has a tough time finding pals because he looks like a spider covered in a pasty human flesh with beady red eyes. Larry has clearly read the famous self-help book \u201cHow To Kidnap Friends and Terrify People.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gillian Jacobs and Azhy Robertson in \u201cCome Play.\u201d<\/span>\u00a9Focus Features\/Courtesy Everett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The creepiest moments come just after the eBook is first opened. Oliver hears a scuttling in his room late at night and uses a Snapchat-like app that gives us funny faces. Using the app, a few feet in the distance he spots another hovering head.<\/p>\n

But the invisible-guy-is-in-the-corner routine gets old fast, despite a vulnerable performance by the talented, 10-year-old Robertson, who played Adam Driver\u2019s son in last year\u2019s \u201cMarriage Story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once his parents, played by Gillian Jacobs and John Gallagher Jr., get up close and personal with Larry, the film becomes a repetitive series<\/a> of chase scenes from a mostly invisible foe.<\/p>\n

For the most part, the film is second-rate horror, but watchable enough. Much more unpalatable, however, is a \u201cTwilight Zone\u201d-esque moral at the end concerning society\u2019s addiction to screens. The minute-long moment sets out to explain Larry\u2019s origins, but makes no sense. There is a logical, scientific explanation for how, say, nuclear war created Godzilla. But this movie suggests that using Grubhub and Instagram caused an evil invisible stick monster that preys on children. Um, how, exactly?\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#A bland mixtape of far better horror films” The big question of the new horror film \u201cCome Play\u201d: Do I know you? The d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu begins as a young boy reads aloud a mysterious illustrated children\u2019s book called \u201cMisunderstood Monsters,\u201d albeit on a mobile phone, and the creature in the story reveals itself to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/come-play-review.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[77428,43306,1406,60087,7598],"class_list":["post-99958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-28-20","tag-gillian-jacobs","tag-horror","tag-john-gallagher-jr","tag-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}