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[Full review in Spanish] Rated: 2/5 Sep 19, 2024 Full Review Guillermo Courau La Nación (Argentina) Despite its catchy title and very recognizable cast for those under 25, All Fun and Games ...
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- Horror, Mystery & Thriller
- Eren Celeboglu, Ari Costa
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By Matt Donato
Posted: Sep 2, 2023 6:38 pm
When you name your movie All Fun and Games, you should probably ensure it’s appropriately fun and full of games. That’s unfortunately a step that directors Eren Celeboglu and Ari Costa took in their attempt to turn playground entertainment like hide and seek or flashlight tag into deadly horror scenarios. Celeboglu, Costa, and co-writer J.J. Braider take an intriguing idea on paper and underbake it like a chef who makes pizza in a stone-cold oven. I’m usually all for a short and sweet running time of around 75 minutes, but All Fun and Games is a rare example of surface-value storytelling that barely gets off the ground before the credits declare “game over.”
The slaughter is set against Salem, Massachusetts' historically haunting backdrop. A cursed, bone-sculpted knife with “I Will Play, I Won’t Quit” scratched into the blade chooses victims to possess, who in turn force innocents to participate in twisted takes on games played by kiddies in the time before Fortnite or Neopets. What should be an easy-breezy night of babysitting turns into a fight against a vengeful spirit from the town's morbid past, which all becomes painfully familiar as characters practically beg to be possessed in a film that’s merely horror child’s play.
My biggest frustration revolves around the lack of enthusiasm for exploiting the three main games used: hangman, hide and seek, and flashlight tag. The horror genre allows filmmakers to stretch the bounds of their creativity, and yet All Fun and Games feels so achingly pedestrian in the way it dryly approaches how the games mentioned above involve killing and violence. Hide and seek is just a slasher villain slowly chasing victims, while hangman couldn’t be more of an afterthought that gets two letters into a round. Flashlight tag is the only game revamped with horrific tweaks that raise anxiety and dread, but even that’s squandered by lackluster digital fire effects that light participants ablaze when they’re “tagged.” Celeboglu and Costa oversell their premise while delivering the basest iteration, failing to meet intrigue with payoffs in a way that earns celebration-worthy victories.
The little details of All Fun and Games feel too unexplained and thinly written.
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You can’t blame the young cast for any of this. Natalia Dyer does fine enough as both the enamored girlfriend and worried older sister. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth gets by as the catalyst for his family’s possible demise, although I’m glad possession performance tasks shift elsewhere after a while (his depiction gets a bit rocky). Asa Butterfield exude...
All Fun and Games is an appetizer of a movie served as the main course. Whatever inherent spookiness comes with Salem’s tarnished history is squandered as storytelling feels stuck on fast-forward. There’s nothing spectacular about the games that directors Eren Celeboglu and Ari Costa recontextualize with horror genre rules, nor does horror excite...
- Matt Donato
All Fun and Games: Directed by Eren Celeboglu, Ari Costa. With Asa Butterfield, Natalia Dyer, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Laurel Marsden. A group of Salem teens discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games where there can be no winners, only survivors.
- (3K)
- Horror, Thriller
- Eren Celeboglu, Ari Costa
- 2023-09-01
Sep 1, 2023 · All Fun and Games, starring Natalia Dyer & Asa Butterfield, is a horror film that over-explains lore and is rarely scary. ... Movie Reviews. You've never seen a zombie apocalypse movie quite like ...
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Sep 14, 2023 · Sep 14, 2023. Eren Celeboglu and Ari Costa want to play a game. Actually, they want to play quite a few in their feature film debut All Fun And Games, a demonic-possession-meets-slasher film ...
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Matt Donato IGN Movies. All Fun and Games is an appetizer of a movie served as the main course, lacking in creativity when it comes to turning childhood games into pure horror. Full Review ...
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Sep 1, 2023 · Negative Reviews. 4. FlashTommy96. Dec 12, 2023. Típico filme de jovens que acham item amaldiçoado, um deles fica possuído por uma força do mal e o resto todo mundo já sabe. Não achei horrível, mas fiquei surpreso que um filme tão simples foi pro cinema, pra mim isso é filme de ir direto pra streaming. É tão básico e simples que ...
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