Come Out and Play (2012)

hyped garbage

A Masterpiece!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Writer & director Makinov's homicidal horror chiller "Come Out and Play" poses a provocative premise: who would willingly harm a child? Makinov has fashioned a taut tale that leaves most of its chilling narrative about murderous children who wipe out all the adults of village on a remote island to your imagination. The eerie action is presented from the perspective of two carefree tourists on the island--pregnant Beth (Vinessa Shaw of "3:10 to Yuma") and Francis (Ebon Moss-Bachrach of "Stealth"), who comes to have a good time. Little do they expect the nightmare that awaits them. Based on Juan José Plans' novel, "Come Out and Play" qualifies as a well-made, calculated, melodramatic exercise in suspense comparable to the cinematic "Children of the Corn" franchise. Makinov brings the tension gradually to a boil as the film unfolds, and we see nothing alarming during the first 30 minutes as our hero and heroine become accustomed to their new surroundings. Afterward, they learn to their horror that the apparently harmless children are hopelessly homicidal, and these urchins have taken control over the village. Although "Come Out and Play" contains its share of devastating moments with children slaughtering adults, Makinov skillfully lensed those scenes so the children appear in cutaways rather than in the thick of the action. The final showdown on the pier as Francis repels their overwhelming numbers is truly good. He fights back unlike all the other doomed residents, and Francis doesn't pull punches as he disposes these kids with brutal passion. The highly ironic ending is something to be seen and savored. Indeed, "Come Out and Play" resembles the ending to the original "Night of the Living Dead" when the last survivor died at the hands of hunters shooting zombies on sight and mistaking the hero as a zombie. The people who gun down Francis are vaguely the equivalent of the Coast Guard, but they aren't prepared for what happens to them once that they have come to the rescue of the kids. Ultimately, "Come Out and Play" is one of those horror movies where evil is not thwarted.

Yea...the title pretty much says it all.This is just a copy paste of Children of the corn with a lot more gore and disturbing scenery."Just more of the same" another reviewer said. I completely agree. This is supposed to function as a shocker and to the ignorant it might...but to the rest of us its a desperate attempt to create something out of the ordinary. There are......SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many loopholes in this.. This mess makes swiss cheese look like battle armor. Why do the massacres happen....lord knows WHat happened to in the first place...lord knows What are the evil children's agenda... Lord knows Why did this...Makinov...who made his name very VERY apparent in the end of the film... make this film in the first place.....The hell if I know..lord knows this should've never been published. We have enough of crap like this. One could argue that the gore and such makes for a good gore-fest type of horror movie..but they would be mistaken because the plot and antagonists here are so blatantly stupid and confusing to figure out that it makes the entire film appear dumb. Children running around with guns and machetes killing their parents and otherwise adults...and converting other kids to their maniacal belief by touching them on the shoulder ...(almost Spock Style...yea...the Mak dude stole that too)...and thus brainwashing them into following them and killing everybody.God.... I don't even know what to say other than epic, copy-paste, desperate mega fail. 2 out of 10. The reason its not a 1 is because I was ACTUALLY able to sit through it and enjoy a few of the horror aspects rather than freak out in anger and turn it off for the sake of my health. Mak..... special effects are NOT enough to carry a movie. Work on the script because this is completely ridiculous. God...its like everywhere nowadays...Hollywood especially. CGI CGI CGI CGI CGI CGI CGI ..EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!! From start to end...computer animated effects or otherwise special effects or whatever features that are supposed to dramatize aspects of a film. Screw the writing..just give us explosions, monsters and blood. NOT GOOD ENOUGH!! (cough) Clash and Wrath of the Titans.All in all....more work on the script... This is just stupid. Too many questions and almost entirely no answers...no wait...actually...NO answers at all to anything going on here! NONE!! WHATSOEVER!!Dear reader. Skip this. It's not worth your time.

This is one of those movies that from the beginning you wonder what is the point. First of all the husband character is one of those guys that seemingly want to impress his wife with his "I'm a man" abilities. He acts like a man who is trying to impress a new paramour.The woman, OMG, his wife set womanhood back a hundred years. She is unlikable. AT one point he leaves her and tells her. I will be right back. If you see anyone just scream. Oh yeah that will help. The man, OMG, he's one of those foreigners that go to another country and think because he can speak the language he's a native. He rudely insinuates himself through the entire movie. Everywhere he goes he makes himself at home before they are invited to do so. As most American stupidly do.Secondly, I don't understand why this island was so important for him to visit. Had he been there before? Heard about it from a friend? Also, when you go to an island that already is unfriendly with the kid fishing when continue into an empty city, doing things as if nothing is wrong when obviously nothing is right so far? You've seen nothing but 2 kids. You stole from a restaurant and no one comes out to collect your money. You get what you want out of a grocers and no one stops you. You go to a hotel and go behind the desk and no one comes out and tell you don't to do that or a "Excuse me butt hole, but you can't do that. You walk into people home and go through their stuff. If anyone was alive he would have been dead within the first 10 minutes of snooping.Monotonous. Is a good word for this film and another good thing about this film is every man and woman should see it before having children.

Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, and even Sound department, are the many hats worn by this Mononymous film-maker - Makinov, who prominently features his/her name in the title and at the end of the film so boldly as if their fame had already exceeded their talent (think Cher, Beck, Bono, Prince, or even Sting). That was the first laughable moment in this (first) film from the artist known as Makinov. But the (unintentional) laughs didn't stop there.The film begins with Ebon Moss-Bacharach's character searching, somewhat desperately, late at night for a boat to rent. He and his pregnant wife, played by Vinessa Shaw, are trying to get to a nearby island, for who knows why. After a long and tedious search, he finds a drunk fisherman reluctantly willing to part with his 15 foot row boat with an outboard motor, which, by the way, he uses daily for his work. After some less than shrewd negotiation, our hero offers the guy four thousand dollars (what?!?) for the use of his dinghy for a day.As an aside, it's worth mentioning that while the two leading actors are clearly not A-list performers, they do bring face recognition, if not name recognition to the film. They are recognizable and have faces you know, but can't quite place. They're decent enough actors, and typically play supporting roles quite well.In "Makinov's Come Out and Play," however, they stumble around woodenly upon arriving to this island, which appears to be all but deserted, minus the odd child or two they run into, as they search for food and lodging. They deliver their lines well enough, but the direction is terrible, as there are long awkward pauses, and odd reactions that seem inappropriate for the scene.It takes some 35 minutes for our clueless couple to realize that there is something amiss, and come to realize the children have all gone bad (again for who knows how and why... which is never explained) and are wantonly slaughtering any adult in their paths, using chopped up body parts as footballs, necklaces, and other assorted toys. Mind you, there is not a child to be seen over the age of 13, most averaging 7-10 years old. We're talking tiny, wee kids, who somehow have the strength to bash down doors, chop through flesh and bone, and cart off struggling fully grown adults.After 40 minutes or so of our unlikely heroes running around aimlessly, painfully, and without any urgency to get off this Lord of the Flies island, Makinov provides us with an ending with a "twist," if you can call it that. It's obviously meant to be shocking, but instead evokes laughter once again. Throughout this entire disaster though, there is somehow a fleeting twinge of anxiety and suspense. At first I couldn't put my finger on what could cause this tension. It surely was not the dialogue, nor the story-line, or the uninspired, single-shot camera work. I finally pinned it down to the music. Makinov did, actually, get one thing right it would seem. The delicate use of crescendos and diminuendos, notes that would as easily have accompanied Hitchcock's Psycho, created this dramatic tension throughout his film, albeit with a retro, 70's style sound, but well done none-the-less.As the final credits rolled, the screen filled with our Mononymous (A Film By) Makinov, I was dumbstruck that I could only muster a single word to describe what I had just saw, the lonely adjective looming as large in my mind as Makinov's moniker hung on the screen before my eyes, and I muttered aloud..... Awful!--One star for the clever music, but otherwise, this film was nothing more than a big fat zero in my book. It is definitely one to be avoided, as an hour and a half spent chewing your own toenails would be more productive and thought provoking.