Cloistered: Come Play (2020)

Come Play is a horror movie released in 2020 about an inter-dimensional entity named Larry, who can only be seen through a screen, and looks to take a friend in the form of a nonverbal autistic boy named Oliver. As means of communication, Oliver uses apps that produce speech with a phone or tablet device, and which serve as a window and door for entry for Larry to visibly come into the outside world; with this it encourages Oliver to take its hand and go with it, so as to alleviate its desolate existence. 

Larry is essentially loneliness embodied in a hiding, decrepit, pale, clawing monster feeding on energy. This depiction is reminiscent of that in Ovid's Metamorphoses of Envy personified, an accumulated manifestation of isolation in this instance. A child broadly cut off from fully communicating, isolated by outer influence; a mother trying to do her best, jealous of the father's ability to enthral their son, while also feeling under-appreciated and that he doesn't want to be there for the child; and a father in the process of separating with his wife, while working night shifts in a vacant parking lot to support everything. It manifests by appearing as a story on a device, a short explanatory lamentation which when read aloud acts as a rite for summoning the entity into the home.

Both of Oliver's parents, who are in a somewhat volatile point in their relationship and in the process of splitting up, do try to keep it lite and going for the kid; and each have their own experiences meeting Larry and becoming privy to the existence of the lonesome creature. Sarah, his mother, learns of it while changing out the burst lightbulbs in their living room after a failed (on the behalf of Larry) sleepover with kids Oliver knew from school when she comes upon Oliver's tablet, a replacement for the phone lost in a field after a more negative interaction with the other kids, and reads the illustrated digital incantation; his father discovers the reality shortly after in an altercation at his job, where Oliver is staying there for some time so his mother can sort things out on her end with knowledge of the apparition and its mission, and Larry comes to try taking him. His father has a second encounter soon thereafter where he gets into a subsequent car accident, Larry riding passenger.

Essentially, Larry can interact with the visible world, but is within his own realm that he can only permanently exit with the screen door, and requires a degree of electricity present to continue manifesting there. This happens in the climax of the movie as Sarah frantically throws out all the screen technology from the house, and amidst all the commotion Oliver screams in overstimulation and adds to her distress to the point she sharply pleads, "Why can't you be normal?" to her autistic child. Then, the power completely cuts out across the entire neighbourhood block, lighting up as Larry audibly and invisibly approaches, and through the cast out devices on the lawn climb through the door between realms of reality. All offence taken by his mother's outburst forgotten as they quickly go to hide from the thing searching for him, winding up under a bed. As they lay in silence while pasty white and haggard feet scoured the room around them, when, Oliver exclaims, "Fear!" and begins repeating it, alerting Larry to their location where they make another quick escape, knocking out the nearby lights as they go and causing Larry to dematerialise; though still in pursuit. 

From there they wind up in a field, with no electrical device in their immediate vicinity that would allow Larry to appear on any wavelength, or so they thought. This field turning out to be the same field that Oliver lost his original phone in during a rough encounter with some kids from his class, though as time in the movie moves they all reconcile differences, making a pact against loneliness. With that device then Larry bursts back and after a final chase, Oliver in the motion to take the things hand, his mother quickly steps in and grabs it instead. She disappears as it runs back to the phone; agreeing on not being alone while watching over her son.  The movie then ends after Oliver's father picks him up from speech therapy, waking up later that night to see (through a phone camera-screen) his son playing with his now so close and simultaneously distant mother.