Come Out and Play is a 2012 Mexican Shot-for-Shot-Remake of the 1976 Spanish film, Who Can Kill a Child?, also known as Island of the Damned. Beth and Francis are a young married couple who are expecting their third child. They decide to take a trip to a remote island, but once they arrive, the island seems deserted. At first, they attribute this to a festival, but soon, they realize that something much more dreadful has happened. There are only children on this island, and that's because the children have done away with the adults...
This film provides examples of:
- Downer Ending: Beth dies in premature labor and Francis is gunned down by the incoming Coast Guard, who've just seen him beat a child to death. Then, the man from the Coast Guard is gunned down and the kids leave to spread their affliction...
- Enfant Terrible: Throughout the film. The most chilling part of it is that, even as they're killing, the children are giggling, enjoying their play.
- Fetus Terrible: One interpretation of Beth's death. She believes that the child has become infected, and is stabbing her to death. It might just also be a miscarriage from when she fell earlier.
- Kids Are Cruel: If stabbing an old man repeatedly and smashing his head with a rock or completely eviscerating and eating another child isn't proof enough, what is?
- Scenery Dissonance: The children do most of their violent attacks in bright daylight.
- Shot-for-Shot Remake: The only shots removed were some of the war footage.
- Title Drop: Daniel Cacho's unnamed character provides a title drop to the earlier film when he answers, in Spanish, "Who could kill a child?" the question as to why he hadn't defended himself.
- Would Hurt a Child: Not initially, but by the end of the film, Francis has shot, beaten to death, and impaled multiple children in his attempt to defend himself.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Initially, Beth and Francis avoid hurting the children. Even later in the film, Beth forces Francis to crash their car rather than plow through the children blocking their path.
