3/19/2023 0 Comments Smile disclabel![]() Rose drives to her remote, abandoned former family home as Joel tries to track her down. After spotting a knife inside an erratic Rose's car, Desai alerts the police to her. Madeline Northcott, and attacks Rose in her home during an impromptu therapy session, telling her that it is "almost time." Later on in the hospital parking lot, Rose has a dream of murdering Carl in front of Desai, who rips the skin off his face as Carl mockingly screams at the distressed Rose. ![]() The entity later assumes the form of Rose's therapist, Dr. ![]() ![]() Rose and Joel visit Talley in jail, where he explains that the only way to break the chain is to kill someone else in front of a witness to whom the curse will transfer. Joel discovers that none of the cursed victims lasted longer than a week except Robert Talley, who is in prison for killing a stranger. Going through police records, they find a chain of cases where someone suffered apparently supernatural hauntings before killing themselves, smiling, and passing the hauntings on to a witness. Rose visits her ex, Joel, a police detective who had responded to Laura's death. Rose then sees a party attendant smiling at her, invisible to others.ĭiscovering that Laura's professor was smiling at her during his death, Rose pays a visit to his widow Victoria, who claims that her husband started acting differently after witnessing a woman die by suicide. At her nephew's birthday party, Rose's wrapped gift has somehow been replaced by her dead cat, which disappeared the night before. Rose has had a strained relationship with Holly, ever since the death of their abusive and mentally ill mother, who overdosed and whose body was discovered by a young Rose. The supernatural occurrences continue, severely harming Rose's relationships with her fiancé Trevor and her sister Holly, who believe she is going insane. Concerned for Rose's mental well-being, her supervisor Dr. She orders for Carl to be restrained, but suddenly sees that Carl was asleep the whole time. Rose calls for help, but turns to find Laura calmly smiling at her before cutting her own throat.įollowing the suicide, Rose witnesses Carl, another patient smiling at her and shouting that she is going to die. She begins to have a mental breakdown and convulses after saying the entity has appeared in the seemingly empty room. Laura states she is being pursued by an entity that takes the form of people smiling at her, and that it told her she is going to die. Rose Cotter meets with Laura Weaver, who had several days earlier witnessed her professor die by suicide. It was also a box office success, having grossed $141.4 million on a $17 million budget.Īt a psychiatric ward, psychiatrist Dr. Smile received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the jumpscares, production values, and Bacon's performance, though some noted similarities to other horror media such as It Follows (2014) and The Ring (2002). Smile had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2022, and was released in the United States on Septemby Paramount Pictures. Originally set for a streaming release through Paramount+, the studio opted to release the film theatrically after strong positive test screenings. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey, Kal Penn and Rob Morgan also star.Ī feature adaptation of Finn's short was announced in June 2020, and the cast was added in October 2021. It stars Sosie Bacon as a therapist who, after witnessing the bizarre suicide of a patient, goes through increasingly disturbing and daunting experiences, leading her to believe what she is experiencing is supernatural. ![]() Smile is a 2022 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Parker Finn in his feature directorial debut, based on his 2020 short film Laura Hasn't Slept. ![]()
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