Smile: Film Review

Sosie Bacon in Smile (2022) - Photo by Courtesy of Paramount Pictures. - © 2022 PARAMOUNT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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After witnessing a traumatic event with a patient, Rose starts to exhibit the same symptoms as the patent and begins to fear for her life.

Dr. Rose Cotter, played by Sosie Bacon, works in an emergency psychology hospital when a woman is brought in saying she is seeing something weird. She tells Rose that people she knows and strangers are smiling at her with the worst smile she has seen and the symptoms started after witnessing a man kill himself.

While talking to her about what's been happening, the patient kills herself which sends Rose into a spiral. She too starts to see and hear things like the patient. But is it just psycosis from the trauma or is there another sinister force to blame?

Bacon plays Rose really well. At times you truly belive that she is having a mental breakdown. And when the scary things happen, her reaction makes it twice as scary. The cinematography adds to the sinister nature of Smile.

While Smile isn't an original concept it does what it needs to do. There are some genuenly scary moments that will make you jump out of your seat. There is also just enough gore for all the gore hounds too. The music is terrifying as well. Everything lines up to make this one of the best horror movies to come out this year. It really is a treat to be terrified again.