Come Play

"Come Play" comes alive with impressive, old-school production design and simple direction...

A Babadook knockoff for parents who are worried that their kids are spending way too much time staring at screens.

"Come Play" is merely serviceable, and leaves you with the feeling that a much better game was lost in the shuffle.

An inconsistent, flat film that is too often reliant on jump scares instead of atmosphere.

Although "Come Play" doesn't come to play, horror-wise, it is a surprisingly effective family drama, powered by a better-than-average cast.

It feels like a Blumhouse throw-away, complete with the low-profile cast and last-act narrative twist.

Gillian Jacobs does her level best to save Jacob Chase's incredibly dumb horror movie about an internet monster.

There's a little bit of Poltergeist, a touch of Mama, and a smidgen of The Babadook in this one. That doesn't make it derivative -- it stands on its own as a story about the torment of an already-tormented boy.

This being a PG-13 affair, most of the horror elements are reserved to fairly effective jump scares...

Taut in delivering its thrills and chills. (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, Profanity, Scares, etc. - also Available)