I saw the trailer for "Smile" repeatedly at the Fantasy Film Festival in 2022,
but I never got a chance to see the film in the cinema. It was only shown for
a week, and it disappeared before I had a chance to see it. That's the usual
fate of unsuccessful horror films, so I shrugged and thought nothing more of
it. I only found out recently that it was a big box office success. Evidently
only in other countries.
Dr. Rose Cotter, a therapist in a psychiatric hospital, is traumatised when a
patient commits suicide in front of her. Worst of all is the way the patient
is smiling as she kills herself. But there's a mystery. A week previously the
patient had witnessed someone kill himself. And a week before that the person
had witnessed someone else kill himself. There's a chain of suicides going back
years. Dr. Cotter fears that she might be next.
However interesting the story might sound, the resulting film seems very
generic. It's all about a curse and/or a supernatural entity haunting
potential victims. There are many films with themes like this. I don't
understand why the film was so successful.
Success Rate: + 10.8
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