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DAY 31.3: Come Play
In Theaters

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie and have a lot of nice things to say about it.

Come Play is about a child with non-verbal disabilities whose parents each seem to have trouble taking care of him. One day, a monster named Larry tries to get him to read his entire story so he can come into the world to take him as his friend forever.

So this is a new director with a ton of promise. He made the horror short Larry, which is very good, and it was good enough to allow him to make this movie too! I would say this surpasses most short films that get turned into a full movie.

This might also be one of the best portrayal of a special needs child in a movie. Like, it deals with his issues in a respectful way and also shows the parents and their struggles with a child who has these issues as well. Neither one is perfect, but you can see how much they still love their boy.

As such, this movie has tons of heart. It goes into loneliness, treating others better, etc. It really feels like a feel good movie at times, despite freaking Larry.

Larry is god damned terrifying. I am actually impressed by how horrifying of a presence he is. He is done so well and literally everything he does works for the most part. The effects are great. And you're just always kept on edge because, for the majority of the movie, he can only be seen through a phone or tablet camera only. So they use that to perfection.

I have one drawback for this movie. They decided to try and give Larry a monologue to explain himself. Which... you didn't really need this. The way he does it is clever, but we didn't need details on how Larry came into being. And a couple of spots has a bit of hokey dialogue. But it really feels like minor stumbles in this movie, because everything else is really good.

By the end of the movie, it really does feel like a satisfying story. I'm hoping this means good things for the director, because he did an outstanding job with this for his first major movie release.

There's one more thing I found pretty interesting about it, but I think it's better to not really know about it before you watch it. And you should definitely watch it. It's a pretty powerful movie.

It gives you some Babadook vibes in terms of the story it wants to tell. So if you like Babadook for the human elements, I recommend checking this movie out too. I give it this high of a score based mostly on the really touching story it ended up telling.

Rating: 8/10

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