I had not heard about this 2022 movie titled "Come Out and Play" prior to sitting down to watch it here in 2024.
Writer Juan José Plans put together a fairly enjoyable script, based on the work of Makinov. It was definitely a storyline with lots of potential and with some interesting aspects here and there, though a bit generic and it felt like writer Juan José Plans was playing it safe by using a heap of generic horror tropes seen in similar movies. But regardless, it still made for an watchable enough movie, I suppose.
The aspect of not really knowing what was going on with the children, what caused it and what not, sort of left me with a lot of unanswered questions, once the movie came to an end.
So apparently the 2012 movie "Come Out and Play" is a remake of the 1976 movie "¿Quién puede matar a un niño?" (aka "Who Could Kill a Child?"), and I haven't seen that movie. So how much this 2012 movie differed from the 1976, or were the same, I have no idea. Nor have I read the novel that the script is based upon either.
Given my limited exposure to the Mexican cinema, then I was not at all familiar with the actors and actresses on the cast list. But they had a good ensemble of actors and actresses, I will say that much. And I do enjoy watching new talents and unfamiliar faces on the screen when I sit down to watch a movie. The acting performances throughout the course of the movie were good.
The effects in the movie are good. And there was a little bit of visceral gore to spruce things up here and there, without it going overboard.
While "Come Out and Play" certainly was a watchable movie, it is hardly a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time, because there simply isn't enough layers in the contents of the script to support more than a single viewing.
My rating of "Come Out and Play" lands on a four out of ten stars, because it feels like a movie that was only half done. There were so many loose ends throughout the course of this movie.