Come Out and Play (2012) Online

Come Out and Play is basically a carbon copy of the original 1976 film Who Can Kill A Child? It was a lazy remake that didn't even try to attempt something different with the concept or reinterpret it. The film is a retread and a missed opportunity to breath new life into the killer kids subgenre. The film still manages to capture the unsettling dread, suspense, mysterious and creepy atmosphere and terrifying helplessness that made the original effective. The musical score was intense and heart pounding and made you feel like you were watching a living nightmare captured on celluloid. The elements that made it watch able is that the premise is still creepy and disturbing and the story is still effective and shocking. Come Out and Play is in the end though just another pointless remake with nothing remotely new to show or say.

The performances were solid for the most part but I thought the script was pretty weak with underdeveloped characters. The two leads were likable and did their best with little that they were given, but they just played the typical, token stranded tourists that waited too long to get the hell out of there. Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Vinessa Shaw play parents to be Francis and Beth, who take one last vacation before Beth is due to give birth to their child. They make a trip to a secluded island and realize too late that all of the adults are missing and the children left behind. The doomed couple soon discovers that the children are homicidal maniacs, with no explanation of how they got that way. We as viewers are just as baffled as the couple and there wasn't even a hint to how the children got that way. I think the main stars are talented performers, but are wasted here as the lackluster script raises more questions than answers.

Director, Makinov pretty much cut and paste here with no inspiration behind the proceeding. He knows the basics of a horror movie but weren't inventive with the elements; as a result there wasn't any moments of surprise because if you've seen the original you know the outcome. The director brought nothing new to the story.

Overall, it's an uninspired remake that's too faithful to the original and you might as well just rent the original because it's exactly the same right down to the ending. Both give effective chills, but there is no good reason for this remake to exist. Still there are far worse out there.

When I saw that "Who Can Kill a Child?" was re filmed, I was optimistic. Despite its flaws, the 1976 movie was a chilling tale full of opportunity for a well made remake in the hands of a good director. Well, Makinov instead of trying to add something new, repeat the movie almost frame by frame. While he seems to be a good director, the kids in this movie are way less spooky than the older one, and the violence is way more edited, you barely see something. While the lead actor does a good job, the end is less meaningful because the kids are not that cool and the kills are way too boring. You don't see a damn thing. A great opportunity to do something new was wasted, but I hope that Makinov (a creepy guy with a red mask) does better movies in the future. He does have good hand, he just need risk a little more.

For me the key ingredient to a successful horror movie is when the lead character/s behave intelligently when placed in a dire situation. I'm sure when most people watch horror movies they find themselves asking 'what would I do?'. A really good horror therefore tries to let its lead characters explore the options (when given a dire situation) that any sane person that wants to remain alive would explore. There is then also the question of what you would do to keep your loved ones safe when they are threatened. Again I'm sure most people would make decisions that put their loved ones safety before their own. Herein lies the biggest problem with this movie. Within the first 20 minutes any normal person would have figured out that the island wasn't safe and tried to make a quick exit. Of course our ultra-unrealistic protagonists do not. Instead they wander around looking for a store and enter the most uninviting hotel I've ever seen. From there it only gets worse as the male lead seems to have absolutely no concern at all for his pregnant wife's safety. He leaves her on many occasions in a town full of killers and on one with a man who attacked him only five minutes previously while he wanders off into the dangerous town again. The couple make so many ridiculous decisions that at one point I just wanted them to be captured and put out of their misery as anyone that stupid doesn't really deserve to survive as situation such as this. Harsh? Maybe but watch it for yourself and you will be equally frustrated with it as I was. A real shame as the premise was actually quite scary and to be fair the acting/directing was not terrible. You just felt nothing for the lead characters as they displayed absolutely no will to live and fight for their lives. Please give us horror movies that will actually scare us!

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!

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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.

What a waste of time and money to remake a film exactly like the first one..!!! Especially when the original wasn't even exactly a big hit... duh .. If you had planned on expanding, adding or enhancing it,,then yes otherwise what was the point ?

The two main leads like the original were basically brain dead from the start. Nothing they did or came up with made any sense. And to add they were not even likable.. The premise that a pregnant woman can not exert some energy without endangering the child is also ancient crap... I know pregnant women that jog, exercise, dance and work right up to the 9th month..

Only reason I gave this steaming pile of manure a 2 instead of a 1 was the island scenery made me feel warm on a cold day...

I really wanted to like this remake of Spanish cult classic, Who Could Kill a Child (1975) AKA Island of the Damned. However the movie is so flat it becomes hard to sit thru since I knew the outcome from the very beginning. As for the acting? There was a reason the female lead of the original, Prunella Ransome, won the Best Actress award from the Sitges International Horror Film festival. Oh well, if you never saw the original, you might like this thriller. Keep in mind, it's not as fast paced as most recent horror thrillers. You might enjoy the build-up. Better yet, look for the original on The Dark Sky DVD label. Then you will see true fear.

Due to the location, great natural lighting and local atmosphere (wherever it was filmed) Come out and Play opens up well, these elements bring some nice cinematography and all said and done the cast is pretty strong - almost reminiscent of Monsters. The opening act left me with a drawn in feeling and I was impressed by this as I felt that holiday fish out of water sympathy for the characters as well as the great scenery making me want one. The two lead roles are taking a holiday island hopping in South America it would seem. All good although that voice in the back of the head begins with the 'what are they thinking the woman is heavily pregnant' - however the wonderful scenery and easy gait of the cast lull us along in this strange island where the adults are strangely missing and children are spotted here and there. This is a promising start for a sensible movie. There is an obvious homage to movies of the genre of yesteryear and this has certainly been done before, however this homage veers into replication of movies of yesteryear as the film progresses and ultimately unravels. This unraveling is the script as the film progresses the turn of events and characters simply get further into the realms of the silly. By the end I was drawing comparisons to The Island of Death - if you haven't seen the most banned movie of all time I can only recommend it as singularly the most bonkers movie I have ever watched, even more so because the makers seemed to take it seriously and they were all baked to the eyeballs obviously. Come out and Play doesn't match the grandeur of The Island of Death whose bonkerness is classic status however - I can suspend disbelief for a Sci-fi psychic link hive mind children idea, however as the script has actors simply perform actions that are silly - why does he keep leaving his heavily pregnant wife alone. They also meet a lady on the other side of the island whose not affected yet not even one mention of the savage children and everybody else dead? They also end up locking themselves in a pretty silly place then there's 'That Scene'. By this point I had gone through pretty much most emotions including hoping these protagonists would simply bite the dust and arrived at 'well this is just ridiculous' and reminiscing about The Island of Dead that did bonkers right proper. Taken as a homage to Who could Kill a Child with to be honest the same kind of script ham fistedness that existed in the seventies that deals its allegory with hammer smacks and little nuance this could be enjoyed however absolutely no modern take or contemptory flair is employed in the process. Making this, including the awful music a step into filming past and not necessarily in a good way.

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.

We're all familiar with the pack of demon children terrorizing the town stories. If you've been watching horror from any of the last few decades, you've probably come across this story before in a film. In this version, we have an American couple that go to a Spanish speaking island to be terrorized by a bunch of kids. Here are the facts of the movie: It takes a good 35 minutes before something finally happens. The subtitles are in white and the film takes place in the daytime… good luck with that. Kids are creepy! Seriously, when they're in packs, dirty and they think they're tough, it can be pretty intimidating. Especially cause your natural response is that you think you can't knock a kid out, it makes the whole premise pretty terrifying. The last 20 minutes of this film is bananas! Because this film ends in such a way I wasn't expecting, it makes it worth checking out. I found myself laughing, not because it is funny, but because it totally caught me off guard and it ended in a very "non conventional" way. If you're in the mood to see some dirty demon children ruin your idea of Mexican paradise, then check this one out.

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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.

Just finished this movie up and while it doesn't break any new ground (Children of the Corn, The Children, Eden Lake etc...) it still proved to be a chilling and well put together film (consider its less than $1 million budget).

The actors all did a good job, the score was tight and the location created a tense atmosphere, an atmosphere of foreboding and isolation. It didn't explain any kind of motive behind the killer children but I think that worked in this films favor, it left an air of mystery that added to the overall appeal of this movie.

The protagonists made a few choices that made me scratch my head but all in all this was time well spent.

Beth and Francis, a young married couple, are on holiday when they venture to a beautiful, but highly remote, island.

Beth is pregnant and the two are hoping to enjoy their last vacation before their baby is born. When they arrive, they notice that while there are plenty of children present, the adults all seem to be missing.

Initially attributing this to the after effects of a recent festival, they quickly realise something far more sinister.....

Come and play, or Children Of The Corn take a holiday, isn't all that bad, it just struggles With the lack of talent from the adult cast.

They aren't convincing as a couple in peril, and their (his) decisions are pretty stupid ones, like for example, lets hole ourselves up in a cell, or lets stop driving after two minutes, because the children would never follow.

The children on the other hand as chilling, like a strange hybrid of Zombie and rabid dog. The explanation as of why the children are like this is a little convoluted, but you can almost forgive its shortcomings, and the ending, which you can see coming a mile off.

Its not a complete failure, there are some unsettling moments, but its forgettable stuff.

First, let's give a slow golf clap for the quality of sound design - some fine atmospheric synthwork by the auteur here. Totally wasted on this garbage barge, of course...in fact, it would have been way cooler if it was created just to be blasted forth from a lone speaker on some Staten Island garbage barge (as part of an avant-garde art installation with live webcam of seagulls and other birds interacting with the sonic space imposed on them by the incomprehensible forces of modernity and chaos, or something).

Let's just say for the sake of argument that the little exposition provided as to how the kids turned evil is enough to let you fill in your own blanks. Psionic demon rays? Outbreak of a sentient fungus? The island was secretly a pedo resort and all the adults had it coming? (Honestly, this last one would explain why the dude spent the first ten minutes of the film trying REALLY HARD to take his very pregnant wife to this stupid place, which is apparently only accessibly by taking a local's fishboat out to a tiny dot in the sea, and giving the weird fisherman a "deposit" of two grand to borrow it.)

Whatever, let's just get to the killer kids. Because heck, let's admit that the real reason we're all here not for the island scenery but to watch these tourist goobers duke it out with a bunch of murderous rug- brats, all armed to the (milk) teeth with a variety of household and garden implements. Maybe the evil kids have glowing eyes or weird discolored teeth. Hopefully they talk in unison. If the leads are likable enough, there's supposed to be some character hardening before they embrace their transgressively violent and absurd destiny and start dishing out some permanent detention. If they're unlikable people, then they spend an hour or so blundering around from one bad decision to the next before being murdered in some grisly and creative fashion, and then the adorable kids do adorable kid things with their entrails, eyeballs, severed limbs, etc.

But this is where the film really earns its two-star rating. Even though the leads were completely unlikable (both as characters and as actors) and contributed their share to ruining this film, the blame falls squarely on Makinov for turning an otherwise totally workable formula into a plodding and aimless waste of time. Any suspense built by the soundtrack (and the half-decent camera-work) is quickly deflated. The two leads stumble around the island for over an hour without a single good, funny, or otherwise noteworthy line of dialogue between them. The wife's pregnancy is as arbitrary as their decision to go to this stupid island, and their whole dynamic had a weird sexist overtone to it.

The kids fared only a little better - but at least they got to wallow around in some gore and act mildly cryptic, even though none of it means a thing and serves no purpose. Perhaps Makinov has some weird "preteen girls playing with gore" fetish, and that was the sole point of making this film..."pedo island" indeed.

Even the title is ultimately meaningless. Certainly none of the kids ever chant it (in unison!) as they advance towards the frightened couple, clad in weird outfits, torches in pudgy little hands. That's what I would have liked to see in a film of this subgenre with that title. And they do none of that! So really, Makinov, what's the point even?

Get a better writer, Makinov. Like, someone other than Makinov, you knowkinov?

Well, I neither read the book, nor saw the old film. But I find this theme is very interesting and at the end of the watch I kind of disappointed. Of course it is a low budget film, which involves little kids in a bad light, but that does not mean they should completely censor the violence. I'm disappointed with those serious avoidance which very essential for a film like this. I agree the children performing such act should not be shown, but the theme was promised something and delivered nothing. On that perspective anyone would be frustrated if they came here to see a good thriller.

So you can call it a horror-thriller for the families, that's how it looks. It is the story of an American couple with the seven months pregnant visits a tourist island destination in Mexico and soon finds the town is deserted. While looking for other souls, they are targeted by those who were the reason for the scenario of the island. Then begins the run and chasing game, and how it all ends revealed with a tiny twist.

As I feared the film failed to impress me, but there might be a few who would enjoy it better than me. So all I'm saying is just skip it if you're seeking 'Hatchet' kind of film, this is no way near to that. For a 30-35 years ago film, it might have worked better, but this is an outdated story to take place in the present world. The theme was fantastic, but I just wanted a different story and upgraded with the new stuffs. Though I must appreciate the director who has done multiple task for this film to happen. Finally, I want to clear that it is not a bad film of the year or decade or ever, but just too soft for its genre, that's all.

5/10

I knew I was in deep, deep trouble when the director's surname-only name was emblazoned in huge lettering in the credits; he dared go where the great director's of cinema history never went. As many of you know horror films are a beginning step for many a wanna-be filmmaker. Usually lower budget and of course given the whorish ego's of some of these people, a lowering of movie-making standards takes place by making their products more violent and gross than last year's group. So what finally does Mackintosh present for the audience? An unoriginal, highly derivative re-branding of elements that go back decades. Overwrought music that 'tells' you when to be frightened, two main characters that repeatedly follow the script but do not follow the script of what two frightened people would do in real life. Example: A killer kid has the wife and husband in view behind the grate, pointing a cocked pistol at them. But bloodthirsty as these children are supposed to be he never pulls the trigger and is shot to death for his imbecilic hesitation. And does the couple rush forward and pick up another weapon? No they don't. Another example has the husband leaving his 7 month pregnant wife alone in the courtyard, where the walls could be easily scaled and goes for a second, unnecessary tour of the hotel, the whole purpose being to set up his running back to her when she screams. Finally, though there are numerous other examples of bad writing, I would ask the folks who liked this movie, which of the giggling, cannibalistic kid-murderers kept the generator running for this good sized town?

We knew that already didn't we? Seriously though: The movie tries to not pull any punches but does fall back on some horror movie clichés where the viewer will not be able to stop shaking his head. Now I haven't seen the original movie, but the concept itself is not completely original anymore anyway.

You don't have a big cast (if you don't count the many kids that are in this) so therefor it is very important to stay/stick with the few you have on board (no pun intended). But unfortunately they never really strike you or have you root for them. It's unfortunate because the journey they take and the allegories they try to play out never really fulfill their goal

This movie is sold as a terror movie. I am not sure what the director wanted to accomplish, but I'm sure it was not terror. Maybe is terrifying to ever want to see a movie directed by him. They paint a picture of the American tourist as if they were dumb and wouldn't recognize signs of danger. After all of this time, and all of what has happened in our world, you really think a couple of tourist will behave like this? The movie also lacks complete story and foundation, there is no background as to why the main characters want to come to this "misterious island", who are they, how they came to where we found them at the beginning of the story. A magnificent Mexican actor appears giving the hope that the movie will rise and some emotion will come, something fearful. NOTHING. Terrible story, terrible acting, terrible direction. The only good thing is the location. But is not worth your time. Buy a post card.

Shot off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan on the small island of Holbox (which creepy enough means 'Black Hole' in Yucatec Maya) it was perfect for Makinov's film as the population isn't over 500 and it's mostly all kids. There's virtually no vehicles on the small island, ran by children, because vehicles are not allowed entrance at all. This calls for a horror film to be shot there, right?

Come Out and Play is a remake of the 1976 Spanish cult, "Who Can Kill a Child?" and Makinov answers that question in his film with a resounding "I can, and I can kill a bunch of them!"

The story follows an American couple, Francis (played by Ebon Moss- Bachrach) and his pregnant wife, Beth (Vinessa Shaw) who are on a vacation (to work on things in their marriage) at Mexico's famous street festival, Carnival.

Francis (Bachrach) rents a boat from a local fisherman to take his wife on an overnight excursion on the island. When they arrive they're greeted by kids playing on the dock. As the couple walk into the little town they quickly realize how quiet and void of any adults the town is. With the empty white sand streets of the village town and the bizarre 70's science fiction-zombie music playing throughout the whole film the director successfully creates an atmosphere of solitude and strangeness.

As the couple decided to head further into town to find the adults they come upon a little girl hitting an elder man with his cane. Not long after, Francis witnesses the old man being drug through the street into a yard where a horde of laughing children with rocks and knives wait. That's when the film begins the pick up the pace, culminating into a 'do anything to survive the night' gory horror.

Although 'Come Out and Play' is being compared to other 'crazy kids killing adults' films like 'Children of the Corn'(1984), 'The Brood'(1979) and 'Village of the Damned'(1995) (as it should be) the director takes a horrific story idea that has been done several times, and brings it back to life in a creatively artistic fashion.

The 35 year old actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Francis), who looks amazingly like country singer, Blake Shelton (judge on the, The Voice), is the real driving force behind the heart-investment viewers will give to this film. As the husband (Francis) who feels a responsibility for putting his pregnant wife in this horrible nightmare, and the urgency to do anything he can to save her, Bachrach plays his role strongly. Although Bachrach's not a name too many people know yet as he usually plays 'the person of interest' or 'the friend of a friend', some of his work includes: 'The Lake House' (2006) where he played Henry Wyler, Craig Young in the television show 'Rubicon', and Nick Salenger in 'Damages'. I have a feeling that after his performance in 'Come Out and Play', we'll see more of him.

For a director (Makinov) who had never worked with actors before, was responsible for directing, producing, editing, doing all the camera work, and on top of it never took his mask off (according to an interview with Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Makinov even spent some full days directing from inside a refrigerator and only ate food in stick form because it fit through the mouth-hole of his mask), I'd say "Well done".

Over all, I really enjoyed Makinov's re-imagination of the original 'Who Can Kill A Child?' It is really gory at times, and I found myself watching some scenes through the safety of my hand over my eyes. There are a few questions the story leaves unanswered like; what happened to the children in the first place?, why did the young couple choose to go deeper into the creepy adult-free town once they realized no one was running the stores or hotels?, and screw gas, why didn't they get back in their boat and head towards Mexico which would've been better than staying the night on an evil island running rampant with kids who want to kill you?

Out of a rating of 1 - 10 I give 'Come Out and Play'a strong 7.

Last night I saw and it was totally unexpectedly great presentation of Horror "Genre". Simple yet great, Acting was superb, From the start until the end you don't wanna skip any single second. There wasn't many characters in this movie as you saw mention above, but those who aren't mention were great as well and they are lots of them. I know my Review don't say much,it isn't deep enough about the movie but what can I say, I like to review as short as simple as I can, but worth reading and easily understandable. As a Horror movies fan I definitely recommend this movie to all Horror fan. Quite honestly I don't wanna see another sequel of this movie because most of the good horror movies sequel are disaster "Example" Silent Hill Part 1 was Great but Part 2 was disaster another movie Resident Evil Part 1 was Great and all other Parts were disaster, Sure they made good fortune but as a Horror fan they were all ridicules. I guess you all got my point. 7.5 I rate this movie.

Seeing all the uneducated reviews its time someone with a bit of style added his review! Right , the reason everyone is criticizing this is because they are comparing it to some old film thats a cult classic, I've not seen it and my guess is this is better and you just have people with nostalgia reviewing. For me it's good , stylish , well filmed, well acted and very spooky. The film is edgy with a good pace and kept me wondering what was going to happen. Kids in the film were freaky and had me thinking ... God just go fully mentol and kill all the little things , but hey that's me. I def think this is a good watch , there's so much crummy horror out there and this is a real cut above all the nonsense. Can't believe there's loads of rubbish reviews for this , I watch every horror and I know my stuff , this is a great film and if you want something a little diff ( it's Spanish ) then it's a good film. Great ending also.

'Come Out to Play' is about a nice young couple who take a romantic holiday to an island. On docking their boat, they find only children, but think nothing of it and proceed into town. However, although all shops are open, not one has an employee working. But they think nothing of it and start helping themselves to food from a café. They go for a walk round the town, but can't find anyone. But they think nothing of it and go to their hotel. However, upon arriving at their hotel, they don't find anyone there. But they think nothing of it and just carry on.

This must have something to do with Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' theory as these people are clearly too dumb to deserve to live.

Obviously, things finally start to go wrong at just over half way through the film when they finally realise that something is amiss. Then horrific stuff starts to happen, but, by this time, do we really care enough for these people? If you think you might, then give it a go. I, on the other hand, really couldn't see how they wouldn't have twigged sooner that this was not a place to take your holiday.

A couple on a vacation travels with a rented boat to an island hoping to find relaxation and detachment from the noisy city where they visited previous. Once there they go to a bar for a refreshment but nobody is there, so next they go to a hotel to get a room but finds that here the place looks abandoned. After watching a little girl beating an old man soon discover that something is wrong with all the kids over there and they must fight to remain alive and find for a solution to get back to the boat and leave the island.

"Come Out and Play" is nothing else then the remake of the classic "Quien puede matar a un nino?" aka "The Island of the Damned" but is more slack. Many facts are omitted example the beginning is to sudden we only see 5 minutes just as a start and everything else is almost the same like the movie from 1976. My opinion is that the film is a useless remake that should never been done, in fact I think that the original is the type of film from witch a remake would never have to be made because all you will do is to bring an offense to a classic.

If you saw the original avoid this one because you may be angry at what you see but if you didn't see the classic then you might like this one.

A very moderate film for all intents and purposes. A pregnant woman and her husband take a little trip to an isolated city... only to find no-one is about. This should be their cue to get the fudge outta there, but nope... they help themselves to some free groceries, drinks and hotel rooms. Then, the children arrive. A whole pack of them. And tear an old man limb by limb, right in front of the disturbed couple.

It's they who're responsive for the deaths of all the adults in town... because they just woke up that way. Hmph. And the grown-ups didn't fight back because... they're kids. Double Hmph. Regardless, our central pair must find a way out of this creche from hell, but they face even more danger from a being they could never have guessed...

And there I must stop, as that scene constitutes the only real shock moment. It's kinda demented in retrospect, but I'll take what I can. It's not a chore to sit through... who could possibly not find hordes of little 'uns, running amok with hammers and knives at least a bit diverting? But the turgid way it's directed and plotted sap a lot of life out of the can't-miss scenario, making it passable at best.

And if the ending is anything to go by, maybe it's time we beefed up our borders against asylum seekers even more... 5/10

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.