This movie makes me ask one question: HOW? How are the Russo Brothers - respectable filmmakers- Executive Producers on this dud? How did someone get Natalie Dyer, Asa Butterfield, AND Annabeth Gish to sign on to this lame project? How did a script this bad ever get greenlit? How did it somehow gross over a million dollars globally when it should have never been anywhere near a theater? We will never know the answers to these questions. What we DO know is this is a first rate turd of a movie with zero redeeming qualities other than it is mercifully short. Even the sound stinks in this trash. Stay away.

Rather boring and predictable. I suppose it's worth a watch if you're really bored and can't find anything else to watch. Not much else to say other than that.. Around 3/4 in I was ready to switch it off and find something else to watch but figured I've gotten this far so I might as well watch the rest. Pretty difficult nowadays to find good horror movies so I guess I'm not surprised. Too bad though I think this could have been a much better movie if it had been given a little more effort. It feels kind of rushed and more like a goosebumps episode designed for teenagers rather than an actual horror movie.

Why did I even press play? Who let Asa Butterfield star in a horror movie? Why did I even finish this? Are some of the questions I have in my mind after finishing "All Fun and Games". Incredibly disappointed, even though I went in with low expectations. Full of cliches and cringeworthy moments. This movie made me question if these actors were actually good in the first place. I loved Benjamin Evan Ainsworth in Bly Manor, but he definitely wasn't up to par here. Also, Annabeth Gish, you're amazing, what are you doing here? I'm not even going to start on Asa Butterfield. Spare your time, hell, watch a romantic comedy, even they're less predictable. I'd highly recommend you skip this one and watch something worthy of your time instead.

On paper, All fun and Games has what should make up a good horror film; a cast of young rising star actors, a setting seeped with supernatural history and an interesting curse. However it ultimately falls flat.

The whole length of the film is only an hour and 15 minutes, barely constituting an actual film. The characters are introduced in a quick narration that basically should have been the opening 15 minutes if it hadn't been rushed. The dialogue from the possessed individuals is more silly than terrifying and the whole "I will play, I won't quit" doesn't really sound like something they'd say in the 1600s.

Trying to fit the kills into the form of some disturbed games just takes away their potential to be violent or original. It also binds the evil spirit in rules that are ultimately completely ridiculous. The only reason it's even getting a 3/10 is because I like the cast and this was not exactly their best work.

Kathy Fletcher (Annabeth Gish) is a single mom to Jo, Billie (Natalia Dyer), and Marcus (Asa Butterfield). Their father had sobered up and left the family. They live in their longtime home in Salem. Jo finds a cursed knife. One night, he demands that the group play a game.

This is basically just Asa Butterfield cutting up people with that knife. It's not actually scary or compelling at all. It rather boring. Eren Celeboglu and Ari Costa are the writing/directing team. This seems to be their first full length feature. Everybody has to start somewhere. Not everyone can hit the first pitch out of the park. Let's hope that they do better next time.

In Salem Massachusetts, Siblings Billie (Natalia Dyer), Marcus (Asa Butterfield), and Jo (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) spend the night together as their mother works a night shift in the wake of their father having left their family. Jo finds a strange knife and journal in a ruined house as if it was beckoning him, and after clearing it off to reveal an inscription a sinister force takes hold of Jo who insists others play variations of children's games with deadly consequences.

All Fun and Games comes to us from producers the Russo Brothers through their company Gozie AGBO which co-produces the film with British company Anton (behind last years Choose or Die). The film is the feature debut for writing and directing duo Ari Costa and Eren Celeboglu following a handful of short films between the two of them and Costa having worked under the Russos in various capacities including Second Unit work on Avengers: Endgame and Extraction. All Fun and Games seems like it's the kind of horror film that serves as a small scale showcase of what relatively first time filmmakers can do, and unfortunately as a showcase it's not all that impressive and fails to elevate the rather underwhelming material.

All Fun and Games from the opening which has a flashforward to events at the end of the film has the feeling of something that might've been pared down from what it was initially supposed to be, especially since Natalia Dyer's character Billie feels like she's kind of been wedged into this forced narrator position that just feels really awkward and the movie runs at only about 69 minutes not including credits. While I can't say for certain, All Fun and Games has all the signs of a troubled production down to even Keith David having been announced as having a role in the film but does not appear in the final product. The actual material is very standard "cursed object" fare much in the same way as Anton's Choose or Die used the same format (and Asa Butterfiled) last year, but where Curse or Die wound up being in my opinion bad in a funny way, All Fun and Games is just bad in a unremarkable and tired way. The movie features a large number of flashy edits that call attention to themselves as well as jump scares involving screaming and "in your face laughing" which is when it hit me that the movie feels like a revisit to that late 90s early 2000s era of horror filmmaking with stuff like Feardotcom, Soul Survivors, or Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows that eschewed building horror or atmosphere in favor of aggressive editing that executives thought would cater to the "MTV Generation", so in a way All Fun and Games was a little like visiting an old friend (only to remember why you lost that friend's number in the first place). Most of the actors do what they can with the material, but there's so little to the very stock roles their given that there's very little any of them can do. Asa Butterfield unfortunately has to spend a good chunk of the runtime being the main antagonist and the voice he's been directed to do feels like he's doing a bad impression of Brad Dourif by way of Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrance but at least it's more dignified than we he had to regurgitate Betamax tape in Choose or Die. If there's a lesson to be learned here, it's that Butterfield probably shouldn't make any more horror films with Anton.

All Fun and Games is a turgid and generic horror film that isn't scary or interesting in the slightest and feels like the kind of generic product that'll be destined to take up the back corners of streaming services alongside other mediocre and substandard horror offerings you've already forgotten about. If you must seen an Anton produced horror movie, just watch Choose or Die because at least it's unintentionally funny.

The plot of this film is incredibly infantile.

Adolescent finds knife haunted by demonic children.

Demonic children use knife to possess his brother.

Brother forces his acquaintances to play games, in which the only winner is the one who survives.

The target market here seems to be somewhere between kids and young teenagers.

But it's too violent for young children.

And too childish for teenagers.

So it fits into that medium where no one is bound to like it.

Being a Canadian...I wanted to enjoy this, if only because it has the kid from Son Of A Critch in it.

But the plot is way too bad.

The character development is lackluster.

And there's too much lead up before the action kicks in.

Which ends as abruptly as it begins.

And they can't even get through a damn game ffs.

There's really nothing to like about it, to be honest.

Other than it being relatively short.

So you don't have to waste too much of your life indulging in it.

But that's about all it has going for it.

Other than decent production quality.

2.5 out of 10.

Watching nonsense is always frustrating, especially when it exhibits a simple and predictable plot. This film, in particular, exudes annoyance through constant conflicts that arise out of nowhere. The characters incessantly argue and bicker, without any reasonable cause. It's astonishing that they resort to such hostility, as if a mere touch would make them tear each other apart! The storyline is banal, uninspiring, and lacks depth, making it quite primitive and crude. Who would willingly waste their precious time on such a cinematic disaster? Certainly, this monstrosity may invoke irrational reactions, making one yearn to seize their neighbor's popcorn and create chaos, all while wearing a frenzy in their eyes, declaring, "I won't surrender until I've thoroughly explored the absurdity!" Furthermore, I am utterly perplexed by Annabeth Gish's decision to be part of this production. It's beyond my comprehension.

We visit Salom again in yet another low budget horror fling.

This time our young star of the film Jo, finds a knife made from a human bone after breaking into an old eerie shack. Oh he finds a book of chants and spell like things aswell.

Well you get the drift of it all then. Lights flicker and spooky voices are heard after he takes them home. It's all very predictable from there. Someone gets possessed and chases everyone whilst pulling funny faces and walking like he's shat himself. Ghosts of witches past make the odd appearance to add to the atmosphere and people die All very predictable.

Hard-core horror fans may find something to like,but it was all a bit samey for me.

As someone who loves horror movies, this movie was awesome! It's a fast paced horror movie. For those who want some long in depth character development or a slow burn, this isn't for you. For those who like the 80's style slasher movie this is for you. There's a curse, possession and death.

The movie isn't long which is nice. There are some flashbacks involving the curse. Which gives you enough plot to understand what's happening. I enjoyed the acting from the main characters. They did a good job of bringing the characters to life. It takes childhood games like hangman, hide and seek, tag and red rover and turns them into ways to kill.

"All Full and Games" has a boring trailer and when you watch the movie the result is better but not excellent either, it is just another entertaining and predictable movie. The leading actors give good performances, the cinematography stands out in lighting and together with the filming locations they achieve a gloomy atmosphere, although the camera movements are not innovative. The script tells a simple but effective story: a curse in Salem, Massachusetts and mixes the elements of supernatural cinema on the theme of witches and ghosts with also elements of the slasher subgenre. The digital special effects are bad, they look really unreal. An entertaining horror film without further pretensions, perhaps the fact that it was co-produced by three countries was the reason why it did not make it any further, there were probably disagreements between the production companies and the two directors who made it.

This movie was awful! Laughably bad. It makes one wonder how it ever got produced and how it managed to even attract some, albeit c-list, stars. The plot revolves around a cursed knife from Salem? It possesses someone, then suddenly the ghosts are real, then they can be burned with light... I don't know, the film just makes stuff up as it goes along. It really felt like there was no script for much of it. And good lord, those quick loud jump cuts got really annoying. By the 100th one we were guessing when they'd come and mimicking the noise. Absolutely dreadful. Only plus is that it's just an hour and 15 minutes, but even at that length I was checking my watch.

So, quick run down: disgruntled family without a dad, struggles with misfit kids who find a knife that is curses by a demon and so the possessesd one kills people.

Whew! I wish that summary was difficult to do, but it wasn't. That is all the plotting that happens in this film. They try to make it seem scary, with dread filled narration. But as soon as the characters start to talk, we can see 1 trope, 2 trope, 3 tropes galore! Every bad decision made in horror movies is made.

And the biggest egregious mistake they make is that no time is spent to establish characters that matter or that we care about, so everything that happens in the movie is "Eh, Who cares." Poor acting that leads to over the top moments that don't go anywhere. Nothing follows logical sense for a person making choices, but the film simple builds based upon what they need to have happen. Contrived.

Oh, they start with some historical fact and from this we are to believe that this is the reason. No. They use this historical fact as a lazy way to establish what they wanted to be scary. They failed.

The film looks nice if a bit dark.

Regardless of how weak the story is. The sound for me made it almost unwatchable I have a state of the art sound system a sony bravia oled tv And while it looked great the mix made Me have to adjust volume constantly Even with dialoge enhancement on .or off i tried it all the levels were so bad I thought the acting was good considering what they had to do or say I so wanted to like this A rather interesting idea for a horror movie. Not the same 4 friends in a remote cabin, or found footage garbage. The premise had promise but alas did not live up to the movie i had in my head Oh well. They tried.

I had great expectations about this movie. Asa Butterfield has always been a great actor since he was kid, so I was excited to see him on a horror movie, but his acting is one of the only things that saves this movie.

Overrall, "All fun and games" is a mix of "Evil Dead", "The Conjuring 3" and "Supernatural". It would not surprise me if there was a post credits scene showing The Winchester Brothers arriving on Salem to investigate the case... Not to mention the fact that the movie itself begins with a huge spoiler that breaks all the tension that could fright the spectator... Not so much fun, almost no Games...

I was iffy due to the low reviews, I am not sure of the average age of those who do review. I often give horror flicks a chance because i have found many good ones that are lowly rated.

I found the movie had an 80s movie feel to it and similar to a movie you would have watched back in the 70s/80s. Being an avid horror fan from back in that time it was a decent watch. If you do not mind an older style movie set in regular elements with not much fancy modern effects (although it had a few ) you may enjoy it.

Is it typical and a seen it before yes, but i find most are now. It was still entertaining to keep me watching it until the end.

It's hard to take this wannabe horror flick serious: it's just so totally lame and unscary! The story is chaotic, the writing is lazy, the direction and editing thrive on cheap effects like flashing images and constant sudden sound-bursts, and the goings-on got rather repetitive and with that even tedious.

Asa Butterfield plays the lead character, I hold him in high regard since Sex Education, but his appearance here is a serious lapse of judgement. They gave him a weird hairdo, made him talk with a heavy American accent, and worst of all: let him walk through most of the movie like a robotic zombie, with piercing eyes and a develish grin, trying very hard to look like someone possessed by a 17th century Salem-witches curse. To no avail, the effect was just ludicrous. Maybe it all would have been reasonably palatable, if they had made it into a horror comedy, but alas, it was all meant to be dead serious. I'm sorry for Natalia Dyer, who did a fine job. And as far as Butterfield is concerned: let's quickly forget this unfortunate mishap.

All Fun And Games is the first feature film from directors Ari Costa and Eren Celeboglu and although it was not well received, there is no denying that the concept it offers is actually quite good. Using Salem as a setting was a good move to make what happens in this movie more interesting. It is a fairly simple story and done in a traditional way as a movie that anyone would watch to have a good time. While the idea of a cursed item isn't new, the concept of a cursed knife made from bones feels pretty fresh. The film becomes a combination of slasher and demonic possession that works well. Although the deaths are few and the duration is short, the film is promising. You have to keep in mind that this was the first time that the directors made a film and it is obvious that the first time is difficult. The final verdict is that All Fun And Games is another interesting independent film that 2023 could offer and that may become a cult film. It's a good start for directors Ari Costa and Eren Celeboglu in horror films. My final rating for this movie is a 9/10.

Do you like child actors? Do you like spooky jump scares that aren't real? Me neither. But this wasn't poorly made, and if you don't despise seeing children on screen like I do, you may enjoy the experience. I'm not usually a fan of spooky ghost stories (especially demons) because the story is always the same. There is a ghost or demon, then someone yells bible verses at it. The end.

This movie benefited from a lack of stupid religious angles to "solve the ghost problem." But it was still just a stupid "haunted item" movie. The unoriginal idea of having it take place in Salem seemed like a reason to avoid coming up with an original back story.

Netflix made a movie a few years back about a priest faking exorcisms. This is along those lines, but a little bit worse, because it's slightly less original that the fake priest story.

That said, the sound was mixed well, it was shot on proper cameras, and the movie did have some type of story throughout. This isn't worth less than 5 stars. And if you actually enjoy ghost movies, you could see it as a much higher score. Watch it if you like ghost stories. If you liked that fake priest movie on Netflix, you will like this one.

I'm a huge horror movie fan and when I saw the cast of this movie I was definitely interested. It's always enjoyable to see some familiar faces especially in the horror genre and sometimes you can find some real gems and I was hoping that this might be one of them.

The premise sounded rather generic but it's really hard to be original nowadays since most ideas have been done before or in a similar fashion. Anyway I went into the movie with no real expectation aaaand I got a generic and rather boring attempt in scaring the audience by loud noises and screaming characters. For some reason I liked the way the movie started and I was invested in our main characters but once the real " horror" started, it was ordinary stuff that we have seen before in countless other movies. However the movie wasn't completely terrible but just really forgettable and has no particular strengths to stand out. Also there are some weird visuals and the movie keeps adding this weird filter that really doesn't add anything.

If that's still sounds interesting to you and you think you might enjoy this, give it a try but don't have your expectations to high because you will be disappointed in the end. [5,0/10]

This was... fine enough for what it was. It overwhelmingly possessed the vibe of a horror made for a younger demographic, yet had language and conversational subject matter that was pretty mature. So in that way it seemed a bit confused.

The acting was surprisingly decent and I was particularly impressed with the youngest brother. The story was pretty basic but still had some very light intrigue to it. They had some decent sfx at times that were cool.

I am partial to a folk horror, a period horror and anything witchy... and this had aspects of all three. So in that way I am a bit biased. 4.5 rounding up to a 5, for most I would probably say a 4. Most likely wouldn't recommend unless you have similar preferences as I.