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Come Play (2020)

★ 6.4 · 736 ratings on TMDB

He's good at taking friends.

Come Play poster★ 6.4

Oliver, a lonely autistic boy, seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy's devices against him, his parents must fight to save their son from the monster beyond the screen.

The emergence reading

In Come Play, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “digital nightmare”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, technology, isolation, grief, otherness.

↷ monsters and creaturesUSfeartechnologyisolationgriefotherness
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0portaldigital devices function as portals to a hostile interdimensional realm (technology · local)