All Fun and Games is about a haunted dagger that possesses its victims and makes them play a deadly game of cat and mouse. Or flashlight tag. Why the demon has childhood games as a gimmick, I’m not sure…. though I suspect maybe it was watching Ready or Not…

The flick stars Asa Butterfield and Natalia Dyer lending more cred to the flick than it deserves. Neither save the flick and Butterfield only serves to remind me of my own mortality (wasn’t he a kid last week?)

This flick starts out promising but rapidly goes downhill once the actual scary stuff kicks in. For one thing, someone needs to take the editing deck away from the hyperactive child who cut this film together. Its full of rapid cut flashbacks complete with LOUD NOISE! that it abuses for cheap jump scares. It happens so often it goes from potentially scary to outright annoying.

And it doesn’t help that, when Butterfield gets possessed, he acts like a dork trying to be Eeeevil!(!!!) He’s so over-the-top he borders on camp. Hell, maybe it WAS camp… but if it was, did nobody else get the memo?

About the only thing this flick has going for it is the common courtesy to give up at 70 whole minutes. Of course, that makes the movie so slight it risks blowing away in the breeze… which would also have been a courtesy.

Skip it… as though you’ve even heard of it.

Score: 68