The Harvest (released as Can't Come Out to Play in the UK) is a horror thriller film released in 2015 by IFC Films that was directed by John McNaughton. It is the first feature film he has directed in over a decade (his last feature film being the 2001 movie Speaking of Sex) and his first horror venture since Haeckel's Tale, a 2006 episode of the horror 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.Synopsis
Reeling from the loss of her mother and father, the teenage Maryann (Natasha Calis) moves in with her grandparents and is grateful when she manages to befriend Andy (Charlie Tahan), a wheelchair bound boy. As Andy is very sick he must stay within his home per the instructions of his mother, Katherine (Samantha Morton), who also forbids him from having any visitors. When their visits are discovered, Andy's father, Richard (Michael Shannon), is initially fine with the visits but Katherine is having none of it and her behavior grows increasingly erratic.
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