Smile

Image via Paramount Pictures The following article contains spoilers for Smile. Moviegoers are grinning from ear to ear with infectious glee after feasting their eyes on Parker Finn’s psychological horror Smile. Released on Sept. 30, Smile stars Sosie Bacon as Dr. Rose Cotter, a psychiatrist who witnesses a traumatic event that prompts a chain of disturbing supernatural occurrences. Early on, Dr. Cotter witnesses a patient take their own life, giving rise to some unpleasant memories regarding her own mother’s…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press Moviegoing audiences chose the horror movie over the romantic comedy to kick off the month of October. Paramount’s ” Smile ” topped the North American charts with $22 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, leaving Billy Eichner’s rom-com “Bros” in the dust. Universal’s ” Bros ” launched with an estimated $4.8 million to take fourth place behind “Don’t Worry Darling” ($7.3 million) and “The Woman King” ($7 million). But opening weekends likely aren’t the final word…

Image: ParamountAs it goes every year, the month of October is when horror movies shine. Such a slate for the month includes Halloween Ends and a re-release of Trick ‘r Treat, but first, we’re kicking things off with a Smile. And in terms of box office, Paramount’s newest film is already off to a pretty great start.Per Variety, Smile’s netted $22 million in the United States for its debut weekend, and has currently earned $36.5 million at time of writing. Directed and written by Parker Finn, the film’s been earning solid…

Photo via Paramount This weekend’s box office was a big one for a Hollywood still rebounding from a pandemic and the ongoing competition from streaming services. Early receipts show horror movie Smile crushing and new entry Bros not doing great. With early numbers being tabulated, Smile looks like it’s going to pull in around $20 million this weekend, according to Deadline. There’s also the chance it could beat that estimate, which looks possible considering its very successful marketing campaign and high scores…

Horror fans have compared the newly released film Smile to the 2014 cult favourite flick It Follows.Smile was released last Wednesday (28 September). The film follows therapist Dr Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) who meets a graduate student Laura (Caitlin Stasey) who recently witnessed the suicide of her professor. When Laura dies by suicide in front of Rose, the gruesome moment triggers a chain of terrifying events for Rose who suddenly feels haunted by the same evil presence that had previously tormented her patient. The…

Image via Paramount Pictures Horror has been running circles around audiences this year, with the genre seemingly leading the pack every other week with a slew of excellent releases. Nevertheless, it’s safe to say that it’s gone about its extensive victory lap in an unconventional manner; Crimes of the Future‘s quiet, contemplative ethos took most of the spotlight from David Cronenberg’s historic body horror endeavors, Bodies Bodies Bodies managed to be staunchly hilarious while oddly grim at the same time, and…

By Jake Coyle | Associated Press I have mostly frowny faces for “Smile,” a bluntly unsettling and blandly grim new horror flick that wrings as much mileage as it can out of a twisted grin. Parker Finn’s directorial debut, which opens in theaters Friday, adapts his own 11-minute short into a jump scare-rich thriller about a hospital emergency ward therapist, Dr. Rose Cutter (Sosie Bacon), whose visit with a newly admitted patient rapidly turns gruesome. The young woman (Caitlin Stasey), beside herself with fear, suddenly…

Paramount. Smile is notable not only for being destined to be this year’s horror crowd-pleaser just in time for Halloween, but also for Paramount’s ingenious marketing campaign backing it. However, one marketing stunt was so subtle and dependent on word-of-mouth that writer-director Parker Finn was worried no one would even notice it. A memorable series of stunts saw people wearing neon yellow shirts with the word “smile” written on them — as well as plain T-shirts with nothing written on them — as they stood…

Image via Paramount Pictures We’re less than a day away from Smile‘s theatrical debut, and it looks to be another homerun for the horror genre in a year that featured the likes of Nope, The Black Phone, Barbarian, and Ti West’s X and Pearl franchise films; we haven’t even gotten to Halloween Ends yet. But it looks like Smile will be more than enough to keep the horror momentum going for the time being; packed with more jump-scares than you can shake a pogo stick at, to say nothing of the disorienting hellscape…

Dir: Parker Finn. Starring: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T Usher, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey, Kal Penn, Rob Morgan. 18, 115 minutes.You may have heard of the “Kubrick stare”. It’s a look into camera – head titled down, eyes glistening beneath lowered brows. Stanley Kubrick was always fond of how quickly it could signal man’s descent into madness, and used it to great effect in A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket. Slap a fish-eating grin on there and you’ve got Smile, the latest example of how a single,…