After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.
- Released:
- Runtime: 115 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
- Stars: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner
- Director: Parker Finn
Comments
- nerol-04315 - 25 June 2024
An ideal horror movie
A friend recommended me this movie when we were talking about horror movies. I'm glad that I have watched this. Firstly, the plot was interesting and catchy. I love when they are trying to investigate the reasons behind an occurrence in movies. Secondly, the cast was nice and they played their roles well. Especially the man who was a patient in the hospital scared me out of my wits. I think the horror was neither so much nor very little. It was the perfect amount. As a sensitive person, I couldn't stand more horror.
I believe facing with your past is so important in your psychology. Rose also faced with her mother in her head and told her she regrets that she didn't help her mother. But there was a thing other than psychology in this movie, mostly paranormal events. So the help that the facing made is controversial.
I didn't really like the ending, it could have been better. But I really recommend this movie to all of you! I am also looking forward to watch Smile 2. - mattheadface-259-278516 - 25 May 2024
Ignore the trailer
It's Final Destination, but boring. Completely wasted potential. Had a couple of cool ideas that could have been explored by a competent scriptwriter but there's nothing new or interesting to see here. Keep looking.
Oh I need to keep typing? The monster design is okay for the two seconds of screen time it gets. Movie tries to explore surviving the cycle of trauma but fails, tries to pin the tail on the captivating monster but fails. Watch Talk To Me instead for a smart approach to the exact same themes. Also loses another star because the animal gets harmed, though this occurs offscreen. Pass. - martymoves - 3 May 2024
All New Creepy Level
What to say about a movie, in which its title is the last thing you want to do while watching.
"Smile" has taken it to new levels of creepiness. Forget horror, *This* should be the brand from now on. The new gold standard.
I loved this film, flaws and all. The cast was great and surprisingly notable. The sheer authenticity of it all encapsulated raw feelings and emotions.
I feel that negative reviews, especially those "critics" who are published by trash outlets, made meager comparisons to other films, just to downplay it (while those films were notoriously successful) and pointed out nothing at all about the actual film itself, as they couldn't muster any words.
Lowest common denominator. Pathetic critique. Smile! (Yeah, you know you get it)
This film brought something new and missing from the genre. While it is hard to be original in a world where everything has been done, and then done again, this film delivers on a new type of scare.
The incredibly acted parts brought a level of realism to it, that you find yourself pensive toward the next scene. It did become a little choppy towards the end. Endings are typically the hardest thing to do (and do well) in a good film.
Most films that are reverse-engineered are obvious and saturated and a boring writing process, with the films generally always predictable and annoying as hell.
"Smile", as I said, was a breath of fresh air. Running away from the pack. I had first seen it advertised significantly well before the films release.... and then it was suddenly gone. Then it popped up in theatres, and just like that, it was gone again.
To think if this was some mass marketing strategy like they did with the pepople in the crowd at public events, but sadly it was not.
I was glad to see this pop up on a streaming service, and then to my dismay, had one of the shortest life spans of any film i've ever seen, being pulled just a few months after its debut.
This whole disappearing act has become a nuisance. So i'd suggest if you're able to, watch this film before it disappears again.
Entertainment Value - 7.5/10 Overall Rating - 7.5(7)/10
If you like cool, dark, creepy movies, this one checks all the boxes. Honestly, try to look at those smiling faces and not cringe or feel creeped out.
The title may be "Smile", but that is the last thing you will be doing. I genuinely enjoyed watching this film. If you're a fan of horror/thriller, I think you will too. - killercharm - 13 January 2023
Basic b-flat horror
Basic b-flat horror flick about an entity that needs its host to kill themself with a witness. The witness must be traumatized by the suicide and then the entity can invade that witness's body. It goes from one host to the next killing and traumatizing willy-nilly. Sounds scary, doesn't it? It should be scary because it doesn't offer much else. Unfortunately, except for the occasional scary smile, which thankfully the smile in question appears more than once and is indeed scary, as I say, except for that smile there isn't much meat here. There's too much reliance on hallucinations, after the fact we learn what we just saw was an hallucination, a cheap trick. Not good enough. - xhnfyyhx - 9 January 2023
Hugh jass
It was a great movie overall but the ending wasn't that good in my opinion Pretty scary scenes, pretty good plot I guess, really gory, if your not into that stuff this probably isn't for you there is some disturbing scenes especially during the end. Lots of plot twists,good acting, kinda overrated tbh a lot just about thing's that people said quite a lot of jump scares. Other than that it was a pretty good movie It was like one of those movies where you think you know what's gonna happen next but something else happens.there is one scene where she is in the shower but it showed nothing but her back. And if you thinking of letting your child watch this I recommend 11+ - agv_32 - 7 January 2023
Another horror
Jump scares as many say and a plot I was repeatedly predicting a minute or so ahead of time.
But credit is due for the camera work and direction. Creepy stuff.
But as with so many horrors logic was absent from the characters and they walked right into it all. There's a number of obvious choices that characters avoided to lead them into further perril and the uses of waking visions was extremely predictable. Guessed every one as it happened.
But I guess that comes from watching many movies. The jump scares and the sound scape were dead on creepy but the predictability brought comfort so for me it didn't quite deliver the scares it should have.
Still it does tick some key boxes so I wouldn't say don't watch it. - piratematto - 4 January 2023
It follows me to hell?
I feel like the Director watched 'It follows' and 'Drag me to Hell' and then mashed them together and made this movie. Sosie Bacon did a great job, very Believably traumatized performance. Kyle Gallner was a Simp in the line of duty. It's hard for me to believe that Kal Penn would sign on for this movie. There were a few good scenes and some tense moments mixed in with a few jump scares and the sound effects were great. But this movie deflated with a silly Syfy channel CGI climax with an ending I saw coming from a mile away. I really wanted to like it but at the end of the day it was just another throw away horror movie. - msyerkeyev - 1 January 2023
Good Horror Movie
Reminds me of Drag Me To Hell, and The Ring (both great horror movies).
Yes, the jump-scares are used very frequently and you just learn to expect them. However, they are very well done jumpscares that I personally did not expect. One of the scares got me REALLY good, I totally did not see it coming! It was when Rose's sister came up to the car and suddenly her head flipped upside down. It was amazingly done because it was broad daylight and she was wearing a pink sweater, and the last thing you expect is a jump scare in that scene. You expect jump scares when they close a fridge door, or there's a dark doorway, or the character is slowly walking through their home at night. You just don't expect a jump scare in that daylight, pink sweater, seemingly innocent scene. I thought that was very well done.
The story is interesting and I like the descent into madness, but also I like the mystery of it and Rose's attempt to solve the mystery.
The flaw of the movie is that the mystery is not actually that deep because there is no explanation of why and what the hell the "demon" thing is. All we find out is how it works, but we don't ever learn what it is, where it's from, where is started, etc.
Additionally, I predicted the ending almost perfectly which is a bit disappointing. I knew that when she set the house and demon on fire, and seemingly won, that it was not over. I nailed that her cop ex-boyfriend (Carl?) was going to suddenly smile and let us know it's not over. And that's exactly what happened.
The ending also was not satisfying. I wanted to see the story concluded, but the demon was passed onto Carl which means it didn't end and plus, we expected this to happen. - cruise01 - 30 December 2022
Creepy but long and slow pacing.
4 out of 5 stars.
Smile is a good psychological horror film that tries for a lot of jump scares and creepy moments. And it does succeed. It does have a long and slow pacing that distracts you from the film. It borrows similiarities like the movies like It Follows or The Ring. The film follows a pscyhologist after witnessing her patient struggling with some entity chasing her and the smiles of strange things. She starts seeing what her patient is seeing.
The plot is good. The film does try for some jump scares. The acting and cast is good. The films direction does feel a little too long than it should have been. Overall, it is one film worth checking out. - mrmurr9909 - 29 December 2022
WILL be underrated
This movie gives all the jump scares a casual horror fan needs to score cuddles from a new girlfriend, and lead to some popcorn spills. Still, under the surface, there is a deeper and better film.
I feel the "you aren't possessed! You are just crazy" backdrop exists in many horror films. Some may even say it's overused. But THIS film does a masterful job of displaying what it: A) must feel like to be psychologically unstable, and B) what others see (or don't see) when someone is struggling mentally.
I think this film will take criticism from "horror buffs" for the abundance of jumps scares, moments of "spelling out" feelings, and not trusting the audience will be sophisticated enough to grasp some of the feelings of the characters. Aside from that, this is a hit. A great film and another great addition to the genre.
The future of horror is in great hands!!!!
