The Harvest (2013)

Directed by

John McNaughton

Genre

horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 221 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl moves to a new town and befriends a sickly boy who is kept indoors by his mother. She soon discovers that the mother has dangerous plans for her son.

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What happens

The Harvest (released as Can't Come Out to Play in Europe) is a 2013 American horror thriller film released by IFC Films that was directed by John McNaughton. It was the first feature film he directed in over a decade (since Speaking of Sex in 2001) and his first horror project since Haeckel's Tale, a 2006 episode of the anthology series Masters of Horror. The movie had its world premiere on October 19, 2013, at the Chicago International Film Festival, and follows a young girl (Natasha Calis) who befriends a seemingly lonely and confined boy her own age, only to fall afoul of his mother. In a 2017 interview, McNaughton said that the film "has the bones of a fairy tale. It’s about growing up and having to break free from your parents. Your parents want your heart and you can’t let them take it. You have to break away and make your own life." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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