Smile (2022) Surprised Me - Let Me Explain
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LAURA HASN'T SLEPT (SXSW Short Film):
• SMILE | "Laura Hasn't ...
SMILE (2022):
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.
Director: Parker Finn
Write: Parker Finn(screenplay by)
Stars: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey, Kal Penn
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The sound engineering was absolutely amazing. Each and every jump scare got me and overall the movie succeeds in making you feel the most uncomfortable and uneasy as possible. I would love to see what a sequel to this movie would look like.
Yeah, I seen this with my family and it was a movie I honestly contemplated leaving the theater halfway through due to stress 😂 10/10
yes, same
bro i've been told everyone about this. the experience was really good bcs of the sound and how they shoot each scenes.
A sequel could ruin it, this film delivered its message and story. If you expand its story we can get used to it, so it becomes banal and not so unsettling. We know the demon, we know its effects on people and we know what will happen in the future. If we give an accurate description of it by making more movies, we will understand it that much to make the scare disappear. This is just my opinion anyway, wanted to share it.
@@nicolagiovannidegiovanni8259 The director himself said that if he were to do a sequel, he wouldn't want to try and recreate anything from the previous. He would try new things so that it wouldn't be "predictable"
I think the fact that joel was the only person that believed her and helped her says something bc very often when it comes to severe mental illness its the people closest to us, tge one that help us and believe us who end up getting like the second most fucked by our illnesses
She should've stayed with him because her fiance completely bailed on her
Joel was great, but I couldn't unsee Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas from *Veronica Mars* ... he was my favorite villain from the show, good times.
@@ForeverLuxeDesigns it's because she has a habit of distancing herself from her emotions, which is why she engaged A"asshole"- train actor.
I don't want to drag my girlfriend life with how traumatized I am and how much I struggle...
@@user-nf9xm7is3m you’re not dragging people down with your past, people are lifting you up. I have no idea who you are but as someone with their own shit I can tell you if your girlfriend knows about what you’ve dealt with and still is with you that she’s a real one. Try looking into therapy dawg, after years of telling myself that I was good when I obviously wasn’t I finally decided to get help. And well, it does help lol
She was gonna beat the monster but she ran away and didn't stay and watch it die. Therefore running away from her trauma and not dealing with it again just like the first time. She was so close to defeating it she should just stay and faced it
Fuck dude that makes me so sad ugghghhh
Nah lol that demon was literally just tricking her. The only way to beat it is to pass it on to someone else
But if she stayed, he would’ve still attacked her
@@alexschneider8494 but it still can happen yo her again. When the demon shocked her, it said something about her mind, so I think it has to do with trauma.
@@alexschneider8494 nah, it represents trauma, she could probably keep it with her entire life until she does of old age, but since she can't hold onto it and thinks she can just "get over it" (which doesn't work with PTSD) the monster took advantage of that misconception of trauma and killed her.
But I guess it can be interpretate differently.
I watch horror movies for fun but after I watched this I literally had a dream of her standing in my room. I could hardly sleep for weeks lol
😂
Fr that face at the end of the movie, the demon, couldn't sleep for a week, even though I liked the movie 🙃
Broooo, that’s wild
Not me. Why the ending unfinished though? Sequel?
It wasn’t a dream
For a movie that was filled with jump scares, it did a really good job with them. They never felt cheap and almost always made me jump in my seat.
That fucking car scene!!!! I don't scare easily with horror movies and that scene got me. I really thought it was just her sister.
I’m very prone to jump scares (they literally terrify me), needless to say I will NOT watch the movie but Imma watch all the videos that are available. I’m such a lil’ bitch lol.
@@Claire_Loves_Music I knew it was gonna be the smile monster, but I almost sh*t my pants when her head flipped upside down.
@@Claire_Loves_Musicsame here
Not cheap at all. Its perfectly reasonable to be scared, alone in your huge house and leave all the lights off. Not trying to be intentionally scary at all.
This movie was very surprising to me with how personal it got. I have a mom who ultimately passed due to the damage that alcoholism had done, and I am dealing with a very similar guilt - the scene between Rose and her “mom” hit home for me
Yeah, the only moment that had real weight, about why she’s so much more scarred than her sister, is when they reveal that she didn’t just find her mother, but refused to call 911. Just slamming the door, after telling her mom she sucks.
Yeah, that’s going to stick with someone, if their mom was awake enough to tell them that she messed up and doesn’t want to die, and that person decided “no, I’m letting you die today mom.”
I don’t like how they make the man from the psych ward, who she ultimately decides to kill, seem to see that she’s cursed. I’m just over mental illness being shown as a superpower, supernatural sight, or some type of advantage to have, at least over those without it, in a movie with such specific rules.
Sorry about your mother, I’ve went through similar situations with a couple people I really loved, but not a parent. It’s very traumatizing when someone is hurting themselves, but is so gone that they don’t remember anything about what happened, so they have no memory of how bad off they are. The cycle just repeats, until something really bad happens. Even then, it can just feed the abuse.
The demon won the World Series
I feel you. I had an ex who, to this day, is a career alcoholic. Part of me died watching her suffer.
I'm sorry for your loss. What you wrote hit home for me as well.
As someone with PTSD, the concept hits a bit close to home. It's not a perfect one to one, but it managed to capture the essence of what it was like to be blown off during initial attempts to disclose the abuse.
For real. Especially in the beginning when Laura is constantly dismissed by Rose (a mental health professional). Poor woman is dealing with trauma and hallucinations and the best Rose can say is “I get it feels real” and “It’s okay”
Like ma’am, it is not okay and it FEELS real because to them IT IS. Pushing away the actual issue is the opposite of what people should do for mental health, they should be looking into the issue, not going “It’s not real so you’re fine, just calm down”
This was the first horror movie I've seen in a while that made me feel truly uneasy.
100% I've watched horror for like 20 years, and went to the cinema thinking it was gonna be a cheesy joke of a film based off the concept/teaser trailers and left after probably one of the most uncomfortable experiences I've had in the cinema.
I can't even really explain it, it was just very involving/effective.
Plus, I'd say the fear of going mad or no one believing you is scarier than any serial killer/monster, for what it was, it was fairly real.
I work at a movie theatre and I need to say how creepy the soundtrack is. Me and everyone of my co workers absolutely hated cleaning that theatre. It constantly felt like someone hovering over you or stalking with sounds jumping at you from all over the room that I can only explain as sounding like a hyena, ghoul, whispery.
I also did a theatre check and it had some intense music building up with her trying to hold back her horror. I was interested in the scare then my co worker tapped me hard on the shoulder and I nearly yelled. The music really made this feel like something else.
I thought it was a great horror film Creepy and fun and jump scares too
All I want in a horror flick
I wouldn’t survive watching it at a theater. Good job!
The birthday gift part was honestly one of the most uncomfortable scenes I have ever seen in a movie and despite knowing what was going to happen the entire thing still made my stomach drop, I even found myself wanting to look away from it. I can't even remember the last time a scene in a horror movie actually got to me like that. Very well done. depressing- but well done
This movie was truly amazing to watch because the real monster was not the demon but mental health (depression/trauma). Also another I noticed the reason why the monster chose a specific time to enter her was because it knew that it was gonna have an audience of the cop to carry on the curse!
Imo the real monster was how badly our culture handles mental illness and trauma. Even her boss calls _the police_ when he’s convinced she’s a danger to herself or others.
Rose (a professional therapist!) in the beginning fully dismisses Laura as having hallucinations and refuses to accept that for Laura it IS real, not just “feels” real, and just repeats that “it’s okay”. She even straight-up asks if her family hallucinates, too! Not even “Is there a history of mental illness in your family?” just flat-out “Okay so you’re crazy, is that a family thing, or…?”
Laura even actually calms down when she thinks Rose is listening to her, but then freaks out and dies when she realizes Rose _isn’t_ listening.
Likewise the whole movie nobody listens to Rose, either. That upset and scared me more than the entity! The entity is at least fictional, but the way people are treated for being mentally ill is very, very real.
As a veteran horror movie connoisseur and someone who goes into detective mode when watching movies haha the birthday scene took me completely by surprise, it was very well done and directed. Great twist that catches you off guard
Totally caught me off guard! I suspected something killed the cat but the thought never crossed my mind until he lifted it up. I was like "did she buy him a gun or something dangerous by mistake?" Not the cat 😭😭
@@ZuriBirmingham same lmao i was expecting a gun or a knife or something dangerous but not the cat 💀😭
Oh. That was the one thing I guessed. The kid opened the box, and I said to my sister "please tell me she did not **** the cat and gift it to her nephew". Since they went out of their way to have her look for the cat earlier, and it never showed up. So I was basically expecting it to show up later. But pretty much everything else in the movie surprised me. 😅
@Mack Higgins I also guessed it ! 😂
@@mackhiggins4731the cat scene was completely in my prediction but I was still scared. Same as other smiley faces.
this brought on even more compassion from me toward people with schizophrenia. even if this was all “in her head” the terror, confusion, disturbance, acknowledgment of not being believed, the complicated and unspeakable realms that form. it’s as real even if others don’t see it. i hope this is an intense thought exercise for others as well
Lmao all the damn jump scares got me and the scariest weren’t even the supernatural ones the most scary ones were all just normal humans smiling 😭😭 it was really great !!
My date screamed into my arm the entire movie. Probably the best review I could give for it.
Didn’t anyone notice that a few of the victims had coincidentally experienced a loss? It’s as if it preferred people with prior traumas.
You don't say? X3 that's literally how it works
Yup, Rose lost her mother, Laura lost her grandfather, and Gabriel lost his brother. Rose and Laura both watched their family members die slowly in front of them, and I think it was also implied that Gabriel witnessed his brother's death. I think the movie also implies that Jackson is a future victim because of what happened at the birthday party.
I didnt realize thay end scene was all practical effects, not CGI!!!!!!!!! THATS SO COOL
"Crazy" is frequently used to discredit and basically gaslight people into thinking that they are burdensome in some way. This is exactly why it's important we stop calling people "crazy".
I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed the movie, reminded me of The Ring and It Follows in a way. Speaking of, the sequel could be about someone who passed the curse on by committing a murder, but turns out there are consequences for that. They are on the on the run for police while trying to figure out a way to kill the monster for good.
There's an old saying that goes something like this:
Even if you break a curse, a new one is created with dire consequences
Someone in the movie already passed it down by committing murder
@@coolboss999 Yes, but we were only told about it and never saw it. Think of seeing a character on the run for murder while also trying to stop the monster. That's a cool idea in and of itself.
@@julius-stark Ohh I see now. I get the concept. Yeah that seems pretty cool. But I think the person must really have a big reason to try to kill the monster while also running away from the police. Like there has to be w connection between the 2 or elsenite just gonna be an action movie. Get what I'm saying?
What if the character murder their neighbor like in the movie and accidently made their Significant other or family member witness it. The victims witness turned away or didn't look so they didn't get it.
You know, my biggest issue with this film was that I thought it should have been a horror comedy, I wished that they'd leaned more into how goofy everything was. But framing it as smiling to hide trauma is an interesting perspective as well that I had not considered. Also would be curious to check out those deleted scenes, I thought the husband was very underdeveloped and it's good to know that more scenes with him exist.
I didn't see the humor.
It’s the entity smiling, not the individual. The entity is smiling, because it’s happy, that it’s gotten another one, and someone is there to witness it.
@@lochofmceo
I thought the reaction at the birthday party was humorous.
I also thought that her relationship with the boyfriend was a joke. They made him out to be someone, that seems very unlikable, and who just wants to not have to deal with it.
I saw nothing in why she’d have wanted to be with the man, aside from superficial things.
It also wasn’t written to seem like they’d been together for very long, or at least not years.
Her relationship with the cop, is immediately shown to be more easy going, and loving, within five minutes of introducing him.
We don’t need a lot of backstory, but they not only made him seem already over her psychological problems, before the entity even has her, and they even made the actor look terrible.
@@CorbCorbin the boyfriend didn't really do anything wrong though. That birthday party scene was kinda funny but idk if it was on purpose.reminded me of scream 4 at the end
@@lochofmceo how in the world is the birthday party scene funny?? i dont get it
I was able to watch this movie and listen to a Q&A with the director. He said it was a bit of a process finding people with the most fitting smiles and also having to train them to smile. And sometimes they’d film entire scenes but have to redo it because the smile wasn’t correct
This movie had me taking a 10 minute break watching cat videos to calm down! 😂 I’ve never done that for any horror movie ever and I’ve seen a lot… It was just very eerie. Best way I can explain it. The upside city shots felt that way too and stuck out for me the most oddly enough.
I don’t think it *needs* a sequel, I think it ended off good but if they did make one I’d definitely watch it. It’d be cool to see what happened with her ex maybe even talking to Rose’s sister again too.
This was the only horror movie I've watched in the past 8 years that I actually thought was really well done and had me actually scared after leaving the theater
The Party Scene With The Cat Was Perfect.
Double Toasted harped on that scene. One of the craziest horror moments in the last 25 years
it was incredibly well done, trye psychological horror
I HATE jump scares - I think they’re lazy, loud sound and a black cat tricks to make an audience jump in place of actual tension and the ratcheting up of anxiety and dread. Except this film has those things too, and the jump scares are often mixed in with very long, uninterrupted takes/scenes.
It’s the rare movie where I thought they really worked and I enjoyed seeing this in the Dolby Theater at AMC because it was *loud as hell* and the seats jump scared you with their rumble, haha. This is definitely worth a watch, and then check out the short film he linked Laura Hasn’t Slept afterwards to get a bit of background on one of the early actors in the film.
I just commented the same thing, seeing it in Dolby was intense! I had never seen anything in Dolby before cuz I don’t normally go to AMC so I wasn’t expecting the seats to shake lol my bf and I were like wtf😂
That would be way too much to take for me 😂 the sound and the seat thing 😮
My daughter, who is 15, is pretty well seasoned with scary movies. While in the theater watching Smile, she says “Dad, I’ve got goosebumps!”
She’s never said that about any scary movie we’ve watched.
i dont scream when im watching something with friends, i do get very scared, but i screamed a lot ln that theater... even dropped the popcorn
I understand this. I am completely used to horror movies (I’ve watched some of them and didn’t even flinch), and this movie had me on the edge of my seat the whole time in a way that I haven’t felt in literal years
The scariest part for me was the burning. In movies when a monster is getting burned they still try to kill or move, or to invoke fear. But the creature, I forgot his name. When he was getting burned he cried, fell back, and was squealing. It seemed realistic, and scary
This movie needs more credit than it got. A lot of people thought it was run of the mill horror but I think they missed the depth and psychology of it. It’ll be a grower.
I’d actually like to see a prequel of the film, see how Laura Weaver went through the process, it could show more of the demon that possesses her. A little part of me hopes they bring in Kevin Bacon for a role in the movie. Even as a cameo
I saw this in Dolby Cinema 🎦 and it was one of, if not, the best sounding movies I’ve ever seen and heard in a Dolby Cinema. The sound was intense and heart pounding
I loved every second of it
The movie was definitely better than I expected
The soundscape and jump scares… superb. Thought this really worked for me. I really loved the play on mental health… and how when you actually need help, no one’s willing to help. Quick to call a person crazy and not actually deal with what’s happening. Great look into society.
A-Train was my favorite actor in this movie. He's a good actor.
I really enjoyed smile , it was very 80s and more of a creature feature which I loved !
I remember my sister was sat with her coat on her lap hiding her eyes 🤣
The therapist scean wad the best delivered in the movie. That shit was very creepy. Up to that point you didn't know how much it could mess with some one. And that wad madness.
That was a tribute to the original short 'Laura Hasn't Slept.'
When I saw the trailer I was terrified. When I saw the movie I was even more terrified. Absolutely fantastic.
I loved this movie, was genuinely surprised by how scary it was, but my only complaint would be when we get to see the "entity" at the end. I feel like it would have been much more creepy and much more effective if we just never actually got to see its true form. Because now it's like, well what is it? Is it a demon? Is it like Pennywise and it's otherworldly? An Alien? I thought it was way creepier just not knowing what it is, and letting your own imagination run free. Maybe if there's a sequel they can explain and go in depth more on what the creature actually is. And why it does what it does.
They literally tell you, that the demon feeds off of fear and trauma and that’s how it travels person to person
It’s a metaphor for trauma and mental illness
I’m blown away by the simple fact that they got all these big actors a for such a seemingly “low budget” or “niche” horror movie. It’s crazy
Smile was honestly good, even though it "borrowed" alot of elements from "It Follows"
And somewhat like Fallen
Yo struggled with 3 parasomnias my whole life. Unmedicated till I was 31. My hallucinations were so complete that I didnt tell anyone till I was about 21.i was terrified that if I did everyone would think I was a danger to be around. The scary stuff ppl have told me I've done while sleepwalking was more than enough to never tell a soul what was going on behind the curtain. This movie portrays my experiences to a T. Granted I wasnt being pursued by a demon. I've been through things that really cant be imagined till experienced...I said all that to say this. If u struggle with mental health its worth it to get help. My issues didnt go away completely but my meds curb my experiences to the point that compared to my worst memories they are rather low stakes and I'm less consumed by them.
And if u have no mental health problems and ur reading this, know how good u have it inside ur head. And dont forget to Smile.....^_^
Ngl haven't seen your content in a couple of years prob due to the algorithm and just being forgetful but I got a massive hit of nostalgia hearing your force and just simply getting right into it at the start.
Glad to see you are still producing content. Cheers
Honestly, I had the same thought when I saw the first trailer. “Oh Truth or Dare 2 *and* made by Blumhouse? Oh yeah this is shit.” and then the jumpscare from the thumbnail happens and I was caught so off guard, I damn near shit myself.
That’s when I knew I had to watch this.
I know saying “This is better than what Blumhouse normally puts out” isn’t a high bar to clear, but this is easily top 5 good Blumhouse movies.
the highest quality gas station cctv footage ever
This movie scared me so much that I cried halfway through LOL
this movie was actually really good its been a while since we got something this new and creative not to forget about the cinematic it was just perfect and honestly i got a nightmare after it so its valid i totally recommend it
the dead husband looked like 😜 i couldn’t stop laughing
You should do barbarian next. That movie was a trip
Best horror movie experience of 2022 - ESPECIALLY in the theater, blind, with no idea what it was about, no trailer, not even information about who starred in it as even that’s a spoiler in a way. It’s on HBOMax right now. Check it out and don’t even read the description, just go for it!
My friends and I watched the movie and kind of felt empty after it ended. Like I expected more bc I was surprised the movie ended
@@MrJagermeister yeah, I didn't LOVE the film, but I loved that it was the complete opposite of expectations from the trailer
@@oliversedgwick7236 I think that definitely worked in their favor, that (while they did have to give up almost the entire first act of the film, they tried to not show much beyond it). Several years ago, I changed how I watch movies and while I used to be a massive fan of watching previews, I stopped watching them entirely. I’ve got half a dozen streaming services at home and I sub to AMC’s A-List for the theaters, so I can see up to 12 movies in premium 3D/Dolby/IMAX formats. So I now make my decision on what to watch based on who wrote/directed/starred in a film and what I thought of their previous work, and if I’ve not seen any of it, am I in the mood for a genre horror/sci-fi/comedy/drama/etc. movie that day.
What I’ve realized is how much previews give away, from the best set pieces to all the actors that feature in the film (including the cameos), all the best scenes (often right up to the literal last scene in the movie like Quarantine and Passengers), the romances, the best jokes, the locations, new suits/powers for superhero stuff, and so much more. It’s like going in with a checklist of what to expect, and rather than having the film’s biggest scare occur organically while actually watching the film as opposed to seeing it out of context weeks or months before watching the rest of the movie, I would just tick off boxes of things I showed up expecting and all the surprise and excitement was sapped from it. (SPOILERS FOR BARBARIAN AHEAD PLEASE DON’T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU’VE NOT SEEN IT).
Going in to see Barbarian completely “blind” was a great experience because that entire first act was all about who could be trusted and what might be going on in the house. I think that even showing the actor that appears midway through the film would have made me realize it wasn’t a two-handler and destroy that shock of being pulled out of possibly THE most brutal scene in the entire movie just as you realize what kind of person Keith is, to pull back thousands of miles and introduce Long’s character and storyline and see how it tied back in. Seeing it blind had me watching every little move that Keith made because I suspected Skarsgard even though everything he did proved he was a good person, while Long is introduced literally having been accused of r*pe and it costing him his job, and when the moment comes in the movie to find out if he’s the kind of person that HE says he is, or the kind of person that OTHER people have accused him of being, the not knowing again made his actions in the final act that much more impactful.
A week or two after the film released, they put out this preview which I think was very clever now that the cat was out of the bag as far as it not being just the two main actors in the film, while potentially drawing in a totally different kind of audience and sucker punching them with a horror show. That’s what I loved most about Barbarian. You didn’t know what to expect, how deep that cavern would go, how long these things had been going on, whether any of them would get out alive, what the motives of every character were, and so on. So even if the reveal of what was actually happening didn’t entirely land for me in the third act, I thought the job of getting me there and keeping me as surprised as possible totally justified everything else and made me appreciate the film that much more. But I genuinely think that the more previews I might have watched for the film, the less I’d have enjoyed it.
So yeah, maybe try it for a movie or a month and a series of films… it’s especially difficult to block out Star Wars/Marvel/Disney and tentpole IP releases but you can block out keywords and search results and filter reddit and all the rest. Sometimes I have to just completely avoid social media for a while, as it’s always some asshole with a clickbait article titled “X’s surprising death scene in the movie!” Or “10 things you didn’t realize about X being the villain” and that kind of shit, just popping up on the side of the screen on a totally unrelated article that has nothing to do with what you were avoiding. But when you *can* avoid something entirely and go in as blind as possible, and it turns out to be a film like Barbarian, A Quiet Place 1+2, and so on… or even just getting to see something like The Batman with no preconceived expectations whatsoever… it makes it all worth while. th-cam.com/video/zUqIv5PvbGk/w-d-xo.html
@MrJagermeister I understand that completely, I also have a cinema subscription type service (odeon limitless) so I can risk seeing things I don't know if I'll like, things previews/reviews said were bad, or even things I've never heard of besides scrolling screenings and seeing have just one or two showings.
I go between 10-15 times a month so I'm not super picky.
Tonight I saw Nocebo, which I didn't see a trailer for and got as far as the first review on imdb that said "don't read anything about this before seeing it" and genuinely really enjoyed it. Way more than I'd expected to.
On the subject of that though, I see maybe 30 new trailers a month through being at the cinema, so it's difficult to avoid them 😅 but then I also don't mind going to see something and being disappointed because the more I see the more worth it the subscription is.
i need kyle gallner in bigger roles asap im so sad
I thought this was so scary I kept seeing smiles everytime in closed my eyes. This and hereditary scared the shit outta me
The transition into the ad for Factor had me ROLLING 🤣
This film got trashed when it first came out, but after seeing it, I had to appreciate its subtlety. There was tons of action, but the feeling of isolation, guilt, dread, and horror was palpable. Trauma, loss, and mental health disorders make for a recurring, living nightmare
I went to the movies with my friend expecting to watch Misummer but we were too late to buy tickets so we chose to watch Smile because my friend had seen Tiktokers crying and not being able to sleep after watching it. I knew nothing about the movie so I was completely immersed from the get go and was very much tense and terrified. My friend however thought it was boring and falling asleep through it.
Get new friends
@@SLU75888Because the movie didn’t rise to her expectations? I had no expectations because I didn’t look it up during the previews so we had two different experiences. I’m not going to drop a friend because of that lmao. Thanks for your unnecessary input, stranger.
Get new friends
@@Avogadros_number Thanks for the advice stranger!
@@Kiwi-vm9gc it was a funny joke vro. No one is taking your friend away from you.
I absolutely loved this movie. I thought the photography was excellent and the actors and actresses - their feelings seemed very real. The movie did scare me and I thought the girl who was first introduced to the audience was the scariest. Laura was her name, I think....
This movie was great. And I’m glad you mentioned The Night House and The Empty Man. Also great movies.
I wanted her to take two people into the desert, tie them up, and kill one of them while the other witnessed. Then lollipop would transfer to the witness and within a week they'd be dead, with no witnesses around. Chain broken.
dark, but smart
Or just kill herself as a sacrifice without anyone seeing her or anyone around her so the curse will stop.
Basically, when you said, it's a cross between "it follows" and "the ring"… You pretty much nailed it.
ive never felt more heard than that "alavare alavare a mi senor"part cause i really do be singing that when im scared
That’s not how the curse spreads. It doesn’t spread with a smile. Didn’t he just watch the movie? It clearly explains that it spreads from you seeing the person with the curse kill them selfs.
Yeah the trauma
I thought it would be silly just by the previews, but it actually made me think. It was really surprising to me, in a good way
let’s gooo i love these videos
The music score for this movie is genuinely unnerving
This movie is the jump scare King!
Haven’t watched a movie in awhile that, I couldn’t predict the jump scares.
I'm glad you brought up It Fallows cuz that's what it reminded me of.
I never even heard of this movie thanks for a great video
When her head twisted around, that wasn't even scary that was just HILARIOUS 😂😂😂
This was severely overhyped for me so I had a hard time enjoying It for what It was. It looked great and was definitely one of the better horror movies to come out recently, but between the cliches, underwritten side characters, and really surface level discussion of trauma, It ended up more disappointing than anything
The atmos mix on this is great
6:52 this was a great video but this part had me crying lmaoooo me being Hispanic that song brought back memories 😂😂😂😭
this was an amazing movie! so glad it wasn’t disappointing like most movies these days lol. i hope they do a sequel with Joel
The cat scene was when I walked out, at the beginning I told myself if anything happened to the cat that I’d walk out
You people are weirdos on another level! I guess filmmakers can kill all the kids and the elderly in movies, but my god don't touch the animals! That is the dumbest fucking thing ever, because you know the animal isn't being killed in reality just like any of the actors! Animals can get killed like anything else in horror movies, nothing is off limits!
I watched this movie for my 18 birthday i was so terrified of this movie when we walked out of the movie theaters i had my friend drive me home shit was terrifying to be fair i don't usually watch these kinds of movies
It was basically it follows
That freaking jump scare where she has the headphones on made me jump off the couch & yell "Holy Sh$t!" Lol
Thanks LME, once again you saved me almost 2hrs 💪🏽🤣👍🏽
I saw this in Dolby and it was intense I was so not expecting it lol
The jump scares got me most times as they felt kinda off beat by a split second, I feel desensitised to most horrors but this one got me so overall a great movie
I absolutely loved it. Haven’t seen a scary movie that good in a very long time. I’ve heard other movie reviewers hate it. You’re the first one that I agree with.
I work in psychology, so this definitely freaked me the hell out. It was very convincing and overall unsettling to watch, I've seen it twice already and am not ready to watch it again lol.
The baby yoda with the cross n the song we all know growing up💀💀💀😂😂😂😂😂
Watched this in the movie theaters when it came out and I was fucking terrified 😭 the graphics are so well done, the cinematography is amazing, the sound and suspense was phenomenal. This movie LITERALLY gave me nightmares and made me hallucinate for a while. They really made me paranoid for a month. Great job…
I did not like this move. I thought it was A HUGE missed opportunity.
The curse isn't spread through the smile, it's spread by the person seeing a person die in front of them, that other person being the one cursed. The creature then goes to the affected new person and the cycle continues.
1) There should have been a "smile" in every background the main character was in. It should have been an easter egg for the audience, growing progressively more intense as the story says the monster does during the days it closes in on its subject. There were only a handful of "smiling" scenes, and the big one with the head at the car was totally our of character for the rest of the build up.
2) The woman who was affected was a psychiatrist. I thought that would lend itself to some interesting internal psychoanalyzing, but it didnt. She acted like every other person in a movie where they are around people who think they are crazy.
3) One of the visuals that REALLY stuck with me was the wrapping paper of the gift for her nephew. Yellow paper with brown dots. It was so odd, and by itself, it was fine, but when it was placed with all the other gifts, you saw how it stuck out. That same type of tension should have been throughout the entire movie and it wasn't.
I will say, the practical affects were great.
So make it a generic boring movie?
@@DeathnoteBB it’s already a normal boring movie. It’s predictable it’s cliché. It’s kind of boring and there’s not much to it. If you think this movie was interesting and I just tells me a lot about your own taste.
I was surprised at how muchI enjoyed the film. It could have so easily been a cliched, cheesy horror film behind on the times but it still felt somewhat refreshing and most importantly was fun to watch! I had no idea the monster and her at the end were puppets and physical effects - that's awesome!
the intro was scary as hell, it got kinda dumb throughout, but that jump scare at the car sent me to another dimension.
I have absolutely no idea how they took *this* concept and made a movie as good and terrifying as it ended out.
The movie called Fallen with Denzel Washington.
It was surprisingly scary, even if it felt kind of hollow after the watch. The Empty Man was great, though, probably because there's a lot more of a plot.
I work cleaning at a moive theater, and the credits music and the last bit of it terrifys me
This movie was super silly at times but when it leaned into that it was a great watch! Sense of dread and sound engineering helped it tremendously and a great lead performance on top. I have a rec for you Art and it's Warrior Nun on Netflix, definitely a sleeper hit and I feel you might like it!
The scene used for the thumbnail really scared the hell out of me
"Get the f**k out of my house!!!"
*bright music*
"And now a word from our sponser!"
Lmao!
huh there is more to this than I thought I might have to check it out
I was surprised how much I liked this horror movie. I didn't appreciate some of the jump scares, but that's just because I was more jumping from the sound more than anything which I don't like that aspect in horror movies. But I enjoyed the plot for the most part and the messages.
honestly its better than we all expected but idk if i see it getting a sequel. however if it did i would like to see joel return as our main character and see the psychological affects the curse takes on a law enforcement detective. hopefully they would keep sosie around for hallucinations or something that joel may be seeing. and for the end i would like to see it passed to roses sister for the third film so that roses family realizes she was telling the truth and maybe they can find a way to end it.
It would've been less scary if I hadn't locked eyes with a random stranger smiling at me like that, one day BEFORE I watched the movie. 😖
You got lucky that shit happened to me a day after watching the movie
You got lucky there was a theater cleaner staring at me when the loud ass end credits rolled and i was the only one in the theater
@@YungL7217 yikes lol that sounds terrifying
Just imagine, smiling at random people as a prank after they got out of the cinema.
@@mikeyr290 that would've been a great marketing campaign
smiley
I think it's crazy how the curse or monster passed through 2nd hand trauma and horror movies can be seen as a form of second hand trauma.
this movie was scary af ngl lol
I'm waiting for smile 2...the lead actress was really good in this movie...loved it
My girl and I watched this. I give her props, she hates scary movies, but she made it through. After the ending, she told me that she never is going to watch scary movies at all with me anymore 😂
This really gave me the Ring vibes really enjoyed it
I was shocked I enjoyed it as much as I did, I thought it was gonna be a mess
Welcome back friend, don’t go again please 🙏🏽 😂
The sound in this movie gave me that cold tingly feel. Kudos to the sound crew. The camera movements when it goes upside down, gave me vertigo. They fucked with you psychologically in this movie.