Smile (2022)

"Once you see it, it’s too late."
Audience Score
67
Review Score
60
Smile
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
DirectorParker Finn
WriterParker Finn
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'Smile' Movie Review

Trauma and terror are spreading in new horror movie ‘Smile’. Sosie Bacon plays a therapist who, after a scary encounter with a patient, starts seeing creepy visions. Can she solve the mystery before she’s the next victim?

Opening in theaters on September 30th, ‘Smile’ is the latest attempt to mine horror from creeping tension and the idea of a shared experience. It’s also one of those movies that benefits from knowing as little as possible, so we’ll say it’s worth watching for horror hounds, but doesn’t quite live up to its premise or its initial scenes. Drawing on the sort of subjects he tackled in the short ‘Laura Hasn’t Slept’ that he made before this feature directorial debut (the short’s star, Caitlin Stasey, makes the jump to the movie with a similarly troubled character carrying the same name as ‘Laura Hasn’t Slept’), writer/director Parker Finn makes an impressive, but mixed first stab at longer form moviemaking.

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Movie Details

Theatrical Release:September 30th, 2022 - Buy Tickets
On Digital & Streaming:November 15th, 2022 - Watch Now
On DVD & Blu-ray:December 13th, 2022 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$17,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$216,100,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Adam Fishbach
Production Companies:Paramount Players, Temple Hill Entertainment

Smile Collection

The Smile collection consists of American psychological supernatural horror films based on an original story written by Parker Finn. The collection includes an original film, a short film, and its sequel. The overall plot of the movies centers around a curse where One infected person is consumed, the entity forces them to take their own life and then the witness becomes cursed.