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Oct 30, 2020 · Come Play: Directed by Jacob Chase. With Azhy Robertson, Gillian Jacobs, John Gallagher Jr., Winslow Fegley. A monster named Larry manifests itself through smart phones and mobile devices.
- Jacob Chase
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Larry is a monstrous creature that inhabits another realm and the main antagonist of the 2020 American horror thriller film Come Play.
According to himself, Larry is a manifestation of loneliness in the world born of people only looking at screens but not at each other. He inhabits a world that exists next to ours but cannot be seen, connected through the screens that serve as windows. Larry has lived in that world in complete solitude, only being able to observe people through the screens. That's how he found Oliver, a young non-verbal autistic boy who uses a smartphone to communicate with people. He attends school and is mostly taken care of by his mother, Sarah; his father Marty spends most of his time at work trying to make ends meet. Sarah and Marty's marriage has become difficult to the extent that Marty moves out.
Seeing him as alone as himself, Larry decides to make Oliver his friend, creating an app "Misunderstood Monsters" that tells a story about Larry who "just wants a friend", the story once finished would be able to turn screens into doors that Larry could cross into our world and take Oliver to his own.
One night Oliver sees the app on his smartphone. Strange things begin happening to Oliver after he reads the story: lights go out by themselves, and a second face appears on his tablet while he plays with a picture app. At school, Oliver is bullied by his classmates due to his condition. They lure him into a field and take his phone, throwing it out into the field.
One night, Sarah organizes a sleepover so Oliver can become more social. The three boys who bullied him come over. Oliver hides the tablet as he is terrified of it. One of the boys retrieves the tablet and reads the story. The lights go out and Larry appears, but he can only be seen through the camera of the tablet. Larry attacks Byron, one of the boys, and the terrified boys all blame Oliver for the incident. In the following days, Sarah begins to see the same strange things Oliver did. Confronting Larry through Oliver's tablet, she learns that Larry wishes to "take" Oliver back to his home world.
That night, Marty takes Oliver to his night-shift parking lot attendant job. Larry, revealing as a skeletal creature similar to a ghoul, begins to stalk them. When Marty witnesses Larry picking Oliver off from the ground, he finally believes Sarah and Oliver. They break the tablet and assume everything is over. Byron is traumatized from the incident at Oliver's house but comes clean on what really happened, absolving Oliver of blame. It is revealed that Byron and Oliver were once good friends but their friendship ended badly because Oliver accidentally hurt Byron which also caused their moms to break up their friendship. They both reconcile.
One night at work, Marty is attacked by Larry. Marty is hurt but alive. Larry proceeds to attack Oliver at his house, intending to take the boy. Sarah trashes all electrical devices in the house, but the TV finishes playing Larry's story before she can shut it off. Larry takes physical form, being able to move in real life without the use of a screen, and begins to stalk them throughout the house. Oliver takes Sarah to the field where there is no electricity for Larry to follow them with, but Larry uses Oliver's phone that the boys threw earlier to trap them there.
Larry is shown as an extremely lonely creature carrying a fervent desire not to be alone. He shows sympathy for Oliver, seeing the similarity in which the child is alone, isolated and unable to communicate with others, believing that both can be "friends" and will never be alone again even if he must force him. Larry is extremely violent and fierce...
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Come Play. Come Play is a 2020 American horror thriller film written and directed by Jacob Chase, based on his own short film titled Larry. The film stars Gillian Jacobs, John Gallagher Jr., Azhy Robertson, and Winslow Fegley. A gruesome monster named "Larry" manifests itself through smart phones and mobile devices while trying to take Oliver ...
- $9 million
- Roque Baños
- October 30, 2020 (United States)
The Focus Features movie, a horror thriller released in October 2020, was written and directed by Jacob Chase, and based on his earlier short film called Larry. The movie follows the parents—Sarah and Marty, played by Gillian Jacobs and John Gallagher Jr.—of Oliver, a young, non-verbal autistic boy portrayed by Azhy Robertson.
Nov 5, 2020 · The third act of Come Play involves Azhy Robertson’s Oliver and his mom Gillian Jacobs ’ Sarah trying to get away from Larry, the storybook monster that has relentlessly come after them over ...
Oct 30, 2020 · It becomes clearer that Larry doesn’t just want a friend, finally making him more of a threat, but it takes “Come Play” too long to show its teeth. An excellent sequence involving a sleepover wherein Oliver’s friends discover the existence of Larry the hard way is indicative of what “Come Play” needed more of throughout.
Oct 26, 2020 · Jacob Chase's horror movie Come Play is based on a 2017 short, so how do the two productions compare? Both tales include a villain named Larry, and incorporate modern technology. However, there are significant differences in the casting and central premise. After being delayed by COVID-19, Come Play received an October 2020 release date.
