Another newish horror movie! These just aren't my usual jam but I read that the brand new Smile 2 is even better, so I thought I should watch the OG first.
Dr. Rose Cotter, a psychiatrist at an emergency psych clinic, gets a new, quite disturbed patient. Laura is seeing things - a being that speaks to her whilst wearing other people's forms and smiling terribly. Laura has a psychotic break and kills herself horribly, right in front of Rose, dying with a rictus smile on her face. Rose is understandably freaked and her boss (played by Kal Penn) tells her to take a week to rest and recover. She does, but then she starts seeing things: people smiling terribly at her, telling her terrible things. She doesn't know if it's family history of mental illness coming through or something else even worse. SPOILER ALERT: it's worse.
Rose starts seeing smilers everywhere. She can't trust herself or other people and all her relationships - fiance, family, work, her own therapist - start to suffer. The only person who halfway believes her is ex-BF Joel (played by Kyle Gallner) who is a cop. Rose convinces Joel to do some research and they find that this whatever it is seems to be spread by trauma: an "infected" person kills themselves in front of a witness, and the infection spreads to that witness. And repeat. Kind of like It Follows without the s3x.
Smile was pretty good and plenty scary; for me, I ended up not watching a bunch of it, either taking my glasses off or peeking out from behind my fingers, especially when Rose was alone in her house at night. After The Empty Man, I need to take a break from movies where scary things rush out at people from the dark. Give me monsters! That said, I will definitely be watching the sequel when I can get it.
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