Smile [DVD]

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At a psychiatric ward, stressed and overworked psychiatrist Rose Cotter meets with Laura Weaver, who had several days earlier witnessed her art history professor commit suicide. Smile will also be available in a digital two-movie collection with the Omari Hardwick starring thriller Spell on that same date. Rose drives to her abandoned family home, realizing that she cannot pass on the entity's curse if she dies alone. Fantastic Fest Unveils 2022 Lineup, Featuring Smile, Anya Taylor-Joy's The Menu and Park Chan-wook Tribute".

The film stars Sosie Bacon as a therapist named Rose Cotter, 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. She eventually turns around, and the now smiling Rose sets herself on fire, which in turn passes the curse to Joel. Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting described the footage as "pretty generic", but said it stood out due to its similarities to Ringu and The Ring. Smile is releasing on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 13 just in time to make your holiday season a bit more jolly and insane.The next day, another patient, Carl, smiles like Laura did and shouts to Rose that she is going to die. Joel breaks down the front door and sees a smiling Rose set herself on fire, passing the curse onto him. Mining the past trauma angle could have been richly rewarding, but instead the fallback of a CG monstrosity seems like a cheat, when so much good has come before. On December 13, 2022, it was revealed that the movie’s home video release included an audio commentary by Finn (complete with commentary subtitles), among other extras.

Attempting to deprive the entity of witnesses, where she confronts it in the form of her dead mother. Smile had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2022, and was released in the United States on September 30, 2022 by Paramount Pictures. With one of the most effective and quite brilliant viral ad campaigns in recent years raising mainstream awareness of Parker Finn’s unnerving and genuinely creepy premise, can the film surrounding it all actually really deliver? The initial pre-credits scenes that set up the plot, are so well crafted, so well captured, and so, well, creepy, it was invigorating, engaging and exciting!Expect to hear much more about all the movie and TV shows coming to DVD, Blu-ray, and other formats in the coming weeks. Upon learning that Laura's professor was grinning at her before his death, Rose visits his widow Victoria Muñoz and learns he was affected after witnessing a woman die by suicide. Mare of Easttown' Actor Sosie Bacon to Star in 'Something's Wrong With Rose' for Paramount Players (Exclusive)". Finn previously made a short film set in the same world titled: Laura Hasn’t Slept, which was meant to debut at SXSW in 2020. There are also a number of great TV shows getting the home entertainment treatment throughout the second month of the year, including Doctor Who Season 13, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Stargirl Season 2, with much much more on the way.

He noted that a follow-up movie would be notably different from the first, stating that he believed "there is still a lot of interesting stuff to explore in the world of Smile. The Dolby Atmos track creates a wonderfully creepy atmosphere, thanks mainly to the percussive and disorientating score, which coos, pops, howls, and buzzes above, below, and all around. There are some delicious blacks, especially important to hide the shadows and ramp up the scare factor, and for the most part these are great; there was a little fading in later scenes, but for the most part frame depth is held. If the stars properly align, he will talk about For Love Of The Game being the best baseball movie of all time.With advancements in home theater technology getting better and better all the time, the dream of being able replicate the cinema experience is becoming more and more of a reality as time goes by.

The sparseness of the hospital, the stark bare trees against skyline, cat fur, the dilapidated cabin, dead leaves etc etc – everything is keen with tight edges. The short movie later received a wide release as a bonus feature on the home video media release of Smile; Paramount marketed the feature as a " Smile original short film". Kevin Maher of The Times wrote: "There are some nice jump scares and Bacon is charismatic but it's achingly derivative and dull", and gave the film 2 out of 5 stars. On December 2, 2022 Finn said that there are things he left out of his horror hit that could be explored in a follow-up.Unfortunately, the hallucinations continue, making Rose seem unhinged and dangerous to people around her, including her fiancé Trevor and sister Holly. Smile premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2022, and was released in the United States on September 30. The first-time filmmaker discusses his intentions behind several creative choices, from storytelling to camera movement. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".