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Cinematography | Ricardo Diaz |
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Music by | Alex Belcher |
Production companies | Gozie AGBO Anton |
Distributed by | Vertical Entertainment |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
All Fun and Games is a 2023 American horror film written by Ari Costa, Eren Celeboglu and JJ Braider, directed by Costa and Celeboglu and starring Asa Butterfield and Natalia Dyer. It is Costa and Celeboglu's feature directorial debut. [1]
A group of teens in Salem, Massachusetts, discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon which forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games where there can be no winners, only survivors. At the end of the movie, we get to see that Miguel loves Djuly a lot and wants her forever in his life.
In January 2022, it was announced that Butterfield and Dyer were cast in the film. [1]
In April 2022, it was announced that principal photography began in Canada and that Gish and Ainsworth were added to the cast. [2] [3] [4] Later that same month, Marsden and Stewart were also added to the cast. [5] [6] Keith David was attached to appear in the film. [7]
In July 2022, it was announced that Cutting Edge Media Music acquired the rights to the film's original score. [8]
The film started post-production in November 2022. [9]
In July 2023, it was announced that Vertical Entertainment acquired North American distribution rights to the film. [10]
All Fun and Games was released on September 1, 2023.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 40% of five critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.7/10. [11]
Chase Hutchinson of Collider awarded the film one and a half stars out of five. [12]
Paul Lê of Bloody Disgusting awarded the film three "skulls" out of five. [13]
Matt Donato of IGN gave the film a negative review, calling the film "an appetizer of a movie served as the main course." [14]
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Then, without missing a beat, Russo-Otstot pivots to check in with Aust about another AGBO project, "All Fun and Games," an independent horror film Costa co-wrote and directed with Eren Celeboglu that's in post-production.