Smile
Directed by Parker FinnAfter witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, a psychiatrist becomes increasingly convinced she is being threatened by an uncanny entity.
Cast of Smile
Smile Ratings & Reviews
- FranBizJuly 22, 2025This is basically The Ring meets It Follows. I think a lot of people compare this movie to those films. This is another "pass the curse" movie, and I think the movie is ok. I did enjoy the research the main character did about the "Smile curse" (very similar to The Ring)
- Kevin WardJuly 6, 2025My kids were traumatized by the trailers for this movie several times and my wife can’t handle horror. She had full fledged breakdown in the parking lot after I took her to see IT Chapter 1. That’s the last horror movie I watched with my wife. So for my b-day after celebrating, they released me to the theater to watch Smile on my own. It was a treat. Smile has a few of the best scares I’ve seen in a horror film from the last couple years. It’s really well shot incorporating some artful camera angles, rotations and inversions. Sosie Bacon gives a terrific and emotional performance as clinical psychologist Rose Cotter that witnesses a patient commit a horrific suicide before her very eyes. I won’t go much more into the plot other than to say he focuses very much on how trauma and/or PTSD can be passed on to one another, particularly when it goes unresolved. It’s a really interesting idea that incorporates a classic horror trope from films like The Ring and It Follows. I did feel like it dragged ever so slightly in the middle. There’s a stretch where there’s no significant scares and the narrative becomes a little repetitive. But when Rose starts towards the endgame it took some wildly unexpected turns. (Not like Barbarian level WTF, but still really fun). Really impressive debut film from Parker Finn
- Allie TranMarch 3, 2025No one smile at me ever again thanks
- Das_LamaJuly 4, 2025This movie was creepy and good!
- brycowardOctober 29, 2024A little bit "The Ring" and a little bit "It Follows". A fantastic exploration of grief, of not addressing pain, and the consuming nature of trauma. The character, particularly the protagonist and her partner, and story-telling with respect to the post curse behavior are wanting. The main character, a therapist, fails to couch any of her behavior in a way to explain it to her collogues; she fails to attempt to explain it with anything which would be explainable to others. She fails to ask to be restrained. She fails to reason that the prior victim committed a violent suicide in front of others, and therefore she needed to prevent that outcome. Similarly, her partner immediately becomes an unhelpful jerk, suspicious of his extremely reasonable, professional mental health expert partner. Those behaviors could very easily have been changed to be more in character, and the story would largely have been fine.
- UniqueMovies Deb HJune 27, 2025Very good and worth the watch 👍 there's a very comical scene toward the end where she goes into the hospital and starts stabbing that one. Crazy patient. Well, she's overkilling stabbing him. He's making really funny sounds while she's stabbing him. If you watched, then you know what I'm talking about. It you haven't, it's worth watching. Looking forward to watching part two. 👍 P.S. She really needs to get rid of that ugly mole on her left cheek!! It's gross!! 🤢😝
- AngusMcNutzOctober 29, 2024An interesting premise that only gets halfway down the field. Also, what if the demon was just really cold?
- sti53June 27, 2025Halfway through I was starting to think about Fallen (With Denzel Washington), and that I wanted to re-watch that one. So I added it to my watchlist. I remember liking Fallen better than Smile, but this one was still a good one. Smile 2 is on my "next to watch", so we will see if it holds up! 😃
- Peter_OctavianJune 1, 2025Not bad. Great at creating mood.
- ghost0neMay 17, 2025It’s basically The Ring, but for people who flinch during eye contact
- Mr. DMay 15, 2025It was good but felt dragged out. Part 2 was better.
- hlzn4October 18, 2024Whack
- kyrilltjeMay 3, 2025I went into Smile thinking, “How scary can a smile be?” Answer: scarier than my student loan debt and commitment combined. This movie takes the universal symbol of happiness and turns it into a soul-devouring, anxiety-riddled nightmare fuel. Plot twist: it’s not dental hygiene propaganda. Everyone’s grinning like they just won the lottery but are secretly possessed by pure evil. It’s basically The Ring but with extra orthodontic tension. By the end, I wasn’t sure if I was scared or just awkwardly smiling back at the screen like, “Haha… please don’t haunt me.” Five stars for making me suspicious of everyone at my local Starbucks who smiled too long.
- c33nf0May 3, 2025It was ok , a good idea that didnt quite stick the landing
- Rowan KrzysiakJanuary 31, 2025I felt it's a horror that throughout undermines its already cheap scares with time-loops or 'it was a dream' type things. The attempt to associate events with some deeper psychological meaning are also not convincing. It's not good but at the same time it's not offensively terrible it is however completely pointless.
