Smile (2022) Surprised Me - Let Me Explain 

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

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"

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.

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.

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.

😂

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

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!

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”

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.

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.

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.

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 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

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.

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

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 😮

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

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

That was a tribute to the original short 'Laura Hasn't Slept.'

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.

And somewhat like Fallen

Yeah the trauma

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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zUqIv5PvbGk.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.

dark, but smart

Or just kill herself as a sacrifice without anyone seeing her or anyone around her so the curse will stop.

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!

The movie called Fallen with Denzel Washington.

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

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.

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 😂