Come Play

Chase turns up the volume and relies on jump scares to build the mood, but the frights barely leap out of the screen.

"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.

This high-tech reinvention of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, complete with its monster POV shots, doesn't have the heart to make yours really skip a beat.

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

Anyway, Come Play is so much weirder than you might expect, and it does phone-based horror in a new and intriguing way.

It does the same things, the jumps and tropes, and it's unnecessary. And the scares aren't even that great, and there's so much between them.

Didn't hate it, I actually thought the things they did right were very very good.

Gotta feel for Chase, who had no idea in 2017 that 7 months into a pandemic, weary parents might seriously consider trading their kids to demons for a little peace and quiet.