Wait a minute, wasn't Keith David supposed to be in this movie?
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn't exist.
While horror is a genre with explosive creative promise, there is also the potential for it to end up living in the shadow of what came before. This is the most terrifying element of the terror-free All Fun and Games, a film built around a sinister game that somehow manages to be neither scary nor fun. Contrived, clunky, and more comical than chilling, it strands its cast in a game that is hellish in all the wrong ways.
The hook to it all is the discovery of a knife that, wouldn't you know it, is cursed. Through flashbacks, we see how it was part of death and destruction back in Salem. One can only hope that this demonic ancient knife won’t be discovered by someone in the present day. Oh no, a group of modern Salem teens seem to have found it and are now being haunted by it.
Asa Butterfield Can’t Salvage 'All Fun and Games' That isn’t to say there isn’t something intriguing to some components of the film. Namely, there is the performance of Butterfield whose character becomes possessed and starts going after the rest of the cast. He seems to be genuinely relishing the part and is convincingly unhinged with each killing seeming to push the character who was formerly known as Marcus farther over the edge.
When Held up to the Light, 'All Fun and Games' Fades to Dust Even as Butterfield continues to try to bring something resembling gravitas towards the end of the film, it all just peters out. No matter how many quick cuts and bursts of sound it throws at you, everything it goes for falls flat on its back.
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