I'm really tired of movies trying so hard to be creative. I wish there was more focus on quality than creativity and originality. It's actually accomplishing the opposite intention. Instead of being wowed by the underlying social commentary, I'm finding myself rolling my eyes over and over again. I get the message here, we live in a time when people spend too much time staring at their screens instead of actually interacting with each other. People are lonely. It's true and it's a real problem but you don't watch a horror movie because you want to think about the deep troubling problems that we all face. You watch it because you want to be entertained. Period. Once in a million can a horror movie be both entertaining and make you think about life. The only horror movie that comes to mind that managed to do that in recent years was Before I wake (2016). Come and play is an ok movie but it's not as special as it made out to be. It's hardly the first horror movie to use loneliness, electricity and electronic devices to create monsters or facilitate their interaction and entrance to our world. Imho, the script needs more work. If loneliness created Larry, why is he only focusing on Oliver? If he doesn't exist in our world how can he move things or screw in light bulbs? Why is finishing the story so important? If the phones and tablets are his way in why breaking them didn't work? Why did taking the mom stop him from wanting Oliver? If the mom can come back, why won't he?
Overall, it's just an ok mediocre horror movie. It's not the worst I've ever seen but it's also not the best. If you've never watched the movie Before I wake, I would definitely recommend watching it. It's a sort of a similar concept but it's much better then this one.
Pros: decent CGI, no gore, creepy at times, family centered movie, good looking slendermanish monster.
Cons: mediocre acting, mediocre dialogue, too many cliches, some plot holes, unoriginal storyline that feels like it's trying too hard.
Overall, it's just an ok mediocre horror movie. It's not the worst I've ever seen but it's also not the best. If you've never watched the movie Before I wake, I would definitely recommend watching it. It's a sort of a similar concept but it's much better then this one.
Pros: decent CGI, no gore, creepy at times, family centered movie, good looking slendermanish monster.
Cons: mediocre acting, mediocre dialogue, too many cliches, some plot holes, unoriginal storyline that feels like it's trying too hard.