SMILE (The Trauma Entity + Ending) EXPLAINED

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As voted for by everyone in the latest poll, today we’ll be exploring Smile, the 2022 psychological horror written and directed by Parker Finn.
Starring Sosie Bacon, Jessie T Usher, Kal Penn, Caitlin Stasey, Kyle Gallner and Robin Weigert - it follows Rose Cotter, a psychiatrist that begins to lose her mind after witnessing the traumatic death of a patient.
Based on his 2020 short film, Laura Hasn’t Slept, about a girl looking for a therapist to cure her nightmares, Smile effectively puts us in the shoes of the psychiatrist Laura goes to see.
The issue of course being that Rose also has a hidden trauma from her childhood trying to rear its ugly head, with the melding of both leading to disastrous consequences and a frightening game of cat and mouse.
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@DiaryOfaCell Год назад

One aspect of the trauma entity design that I really like is how it looks like one person crawled inside another person who then crawled inside another and then they’re all just decomposing. Very creepy design.

@princeharris2660 Год назад

That sounds traumatizing

@royleyva197 Год назад

Good lord that makes it even worse

@Artofficial1986 Год назад

Jesus I hadn't noticed that detail.. That is morbid

@b_radbrad8899 Год назад

It’s probably just me but the design sort of reminds me of the Wojak Skull meme face. It was one of the faces from the mr incredibles becoming uncanny meme

@connorhenderson3447 Год назад

Yeah I took it as all the victims it's 'swallowed'

@fourthhorsemendeath218 Год назад

Wow.....this movie made the concept of supernatural smiling entities actually scary instead of what Truth or Dare did. Good on you movie makers.

@Rand0m_Mex1can14 Год назад

There’s just one difference, this one was good truth or dare was bland its very boring & mediocre.

@danny_decheeto8300 Год назад

Honestly wasn’t a huge fan of this movie

@Rand0m_Mex1can14 Год назад

@@danny_decheeto8300 “Are you a fan of truth or dare?”

@danny_decheeto8300 Год назад

@@Rand0m_Mex1can14 nah never seen it

@Rand0m_Mex1can14 Год назад

@@danny_decheeto8300 You’re lucky, it’s a mid movie.

@detectivehungry3544 Год назад

It’s crazy to realize that if she went home like her boss suggested this all probably wouldn’t have happened to her.

@jeffreyisbell7471 Год назад

It might’ve made its way to her eventually, and who’s to not say there’s multiple of it going around? There’s thousands of suicides every day. She’s be lucky if she gets to die any other way

@ugoiba5357 Год назад

I think that plays into the theme, yeah?

@mw9688 Год назад

@@jeffreyisbell7471 those could just be regular suicides. I like the idea that there is only one. Also I like the idea that had she gone home she likely never would’ve encountered it as it would just pass along. It isn’t really a communal disease focused on spreading as much as it’s just an entity focused on convenient sustenance. It makes the idea that this did happen to her all the more tragic and adds a feeling of isolation with the incident that likely adds to the overall hopelessness of the event… it’s a butterfly effect that made her fate so horrible… Another thing with there still being regular suicides and mental health afflictions makes it so people are unlikely to catch on in mass and come up with a way of stopping it… it just blends in with an unfortunate occurrence of the human psyche making it unstoppable. Enough people catch on and it likely will have more obstacles… so it just plays it’s cool with individuals and collateral trauma it causes before the final event is just for kicks.

@Phantom_961 Год назад

It would happen to some of the staff. 😳

@RubyDianArts Год назад

What would happen if a cursed person traumatized a whole group of people at once? Everyone gets cursed? While these "one person at a time" horrors are good, I kind of want to see what a lot of people under this affliction would do.

@YuzuruA Год назад

basically either zombie movie or bird box/the happening remake

@Will-dn9dq Год назад

So the rings film? Give this one $ the sequel might do it too

@cloberlobster2276 Год назад

I personally think that's how the trauma demon reproduces, it's most likely that that has happened before, and there are multiple trauma demons out there.

@Will-dn9dq Год назад

@@cloberlobster2276 decent theory, it's only 1 of a type of demon with many many like itself spread throughout the world.

@theonpointheavy4401 Год назад

@@cloberlobster2276 Nah, if they reproduced so easily they would have already overun and destroyed humanity.

@eriny2k Год назад

I found it ironic that Laura’s character was saying “I’m a PHD student, I’m not crazy!” When in reality, mental health struggles and trauma don’t discriminate.

@brunneng38 Год назад

Exactly. Most of the doctors I’ve had interactions with in the past few years have come across as being at the very least on the spectrum.

@kitten_with_bad_breath 2 месяца назад

Women ☕

@eriny2k Месяц назад

@@kitten_with_bad_breath Actually it’s a fact that men go more with untreated mental health problems that leads to suicide, addiction, and a number of other horrible issues such as violence against their peers. Suicide rates in men are much higher than in women. That’s because asking for help as men is frowned upon, being emotional as a man is seen as “gay” or inherently feminine. This is just a fact. Men perpetuate these stereotypes more than anyone. Sounds like you probably do have bad breath!

@Blasted2Oblivion Год назад

Only having this as a source, her boss seems like an actually good dude. When she admitted someone who couldn't pay, he didn't chastise her for doing it but for not giving him a heads up so he can make it work. When she started acting odd, he insisted she take paid time off because it was good for her and her patients.

@engoodenwojak918 Год назад

some of my employees says im exactly like him!

@InsertSomethingStupid2002 Год назад

@@engoodenwojak918 ok bro

@angryman132 Год назад

Yeah it's a great change

@prettyevil6662000 Год назад

He also wanted to chat with her when she was having problems. Seemed very understanding that what she'd seen was causing her distress and didn't seem worried it was taking time out of his day or anything.

@brianstanton2721 Год назад

Yeah this seems like the only one of her support systems that is actually a support system other than the poor Kitty

@lexxstrum Год назад

You could almost see Smile and It Follows in the same universe: strange spiritual parasite/predators that infect the life of someone and force them to pass it on to someone else or die.

@68Fourty72 Год назад

"Could put Truth or Dare in that 'universe' as well. Maybe even Final Destination."

@lambo_visions4765 Год назад

i said the same thing

@dineez627 Год назад

@@68Fourty72 So Death, a trauma entity, and a sex entity walk into a bar...

@shikniwho7215 Год назад

but then if you manage to infected someone with all of them, what going to happen?

@dj__alien Год назад

@@dineez627 LMAO

@swapertxking Год назад

got a feeling that you could beat this thing by sitting down and accepting what happens. letting trauma fester is how it spreads, and trauma feeds itself. the only way to let go of trauma is by acceptance. it happened, it doesnt have to weigh on you.

@ohsodangerous619 Год назад

Or a bunch of xanax

@swapertxking Год назад

@@ohsodangerous619 that just treats the syptoms, not the problem. drugs are bad for you in the long run.

@MKxteo Год назад

Just shrug it off

@ohsodangerous619 Год назад

@@swapertxking lol were talking about a fictional supernatural demon. I'd take my chances getting strung out on Xanax then possibly slitting my own throat with a demonic smile

@swapertxking Год назад

@@ohsodangerous619 okay but you're forgetting that trauma feeds it. life isnt always going to be fine, but having a stalwart soul will overcome any hurdles.

@Gemini-js8zr Год назад

What if the witness isn’t traumatized by what they saw, are they still cursed? What if the witness was like “meh I’ve seen worse.” 😂

@cbmazo9229 Год назад

I feel like wether they’re scared or not, the entity is gonna have them kill themself anyways but since it does enjoy tormenting they’re victim, it’ll just be bored af, kind of like working an actual 9-5 😂

@ZyroShadowPony Год назад

@@cbmazo9229 its just the flying dutchman and spongebob situation xD

@AveryBlueRemix Год назад

@@ZyroShadowPony funniest thing I’ve read all day

@justaguyonyoutube4592 Год назад

@@ZyroShadowPony The smile entity: **Tries to scare me** Me: **Unamused** Like that SpongeBob meme lmao

@somerandy1994 Год назад

I would assume it has a feeling as to who is a good target. It feeds off of trauma so it could probably sense who has trauma or who is capable of nurturing trauma from the death of its current host.

@peterseaboldt1250 Год назад

So if the entity's target chooses to resist by killing themselves with no one else around, does that mean that the entity will have nowhere to go and just disappear?

@montyjohnn2826 Год назад

I think it makes delusions and prays on the person’s psyche. On top of isolating the person and making them overly tired I think it is good at getting its way and passing onto the next person.

@saljpal3 Год назад

If I was the cop I would've put my gun to my head before Rose set herself on fire.

@HungLe-km2wo Год назад

It a parasite that infect a host, altering their behavior, slowly taking control of their body and then entering a new host to reproduce, there are real case of this in the wild such as the zombie ant and zombie snail.

@DarkOrbit1229 Год назад

I think it would “talk” them out of it, or force them to wait until the time was right/ someone else was around to see it.

@rebaa2175 Год назад

She tried at the end, although someone went to find her and when she thought she beat it she actually just ended up exposing the other person to the monsyer

@tipsyXtwo Год назад

First truly creepy movie since “Mama”. One very minor point though - at the party I don’t believe that was Laura she saw - there was another woman talking to her earlier when she found out Rose was a psychiatrist - I’m pretty sure that was the woman smiling at her which sent her stumbling back into the table.

@zerofitz Год назад

Thank you people shit on Mama and I was hearing this movie was crap too, but I love both movies. This one felt a lot like It Follows and I have a fan theory that the entities are related. Like the emotional spectrum of the lantern corps just made up of different feelings like lust and shock.....

@Claire_Loves_Music Год назад

@@zerofitz that's a good point about the similarities! I loved It Follows and I was surprised by how much I liked this movie.

@mirandah9758 Год назад

Yes! I love mama and I think it’s truly underrated.

@drakobloodwing540 Год назад

Dude why did you have to speak that movie's name that movie generally scarred me like you just I just saw you talk about it and I gently felt my hair stand up

@sanna9062 Год назад

Since Mama? Really? It came out in 2013

@GabesEdtiz Год назад

The trauma entity’s design was so good. Definitely going to give me nightmares.

@filmcomicsexplained Год назад

It's so good!

@NPClownumber81googolplex Год назад

But isn't it supposed to be funny? Why get nightmares?

@briardougherty5307 Год назад

It makes you wan't to look away

@lucre113 Год назад

@@briardougherty5307 I could show you an actual interdimensional entity that forces you to look away if you want. If you aren’t mentally strong it could ruin your life tho. it feeds on willpower I’m working on ridding myself of my addictions so I can start using it to my benefit

@This_guy887 Год назад

@@lucre113 🌽 ⚽️

@robmarsh918 Год назад

One thing that contributed to the nightmare feel of the movie - as well as being insightful - was how everyone around her reacted realistically and relatively appropriate. Rose was presenting as someone who was having a mental breakdown and was a danger to herself and possibly others, and everyone reacted how loved ones would: horrified, concerned, seeking help, etc. This is terrifying because it makes the audience 1. imagine themselves in the situation where no one believes and instead writes them off as 'crazy' (which has been done before but with more exaggeration and less of a real world tone) and 2. implants the 'what if' of "What if someone I've seen with similar behavior was actually was seeing real things, and I disregarded them as just symptoms?" Chances are the audience has said similar reassuring statements to their loved ones as Rose was hearing from her fiancé, therapist, and sister. And the horror of the ending, of course: feeling like you've finally defeated your demons and opened up, only for it not to matter - the horror of never escaping your trauma. Pretty scary stuff.

@ryanrobison8973 Год назад

You would 100% be put on antipsychotics if you were experiencing the level of hallucinations and other symptoms she was experiencing. She was near inpatient level the entire movie.

@Hairahcaz2288 Год назад

As a seasoned horror fan, I can't express how disturbed and uncomfortable I was watching this movie. I actually started to cry on my second viewing cause I could feel what Rose is feeling. They did an excellent job!

@LunchSays Год назад

My coffee is stronger than you. Lol

@emilybarclay8831 Год назад

@@LunchSays your coffee is the only warm thing in your life, evidently.

@ms.greywolf8228 Год назад

@@LunchSays your coffee has no texture nor flavor, just plane bitter taste. Got it.

@AggieRanger Год назад

@@ms.greywolf8228 you drink textured coffee?

@moonwhooper Год назад

Why cry?

@stockwatsonnu8518 Год назад

This demon is literally one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen in a horror movie. That thing lived rent free in my nightmares for a solid week.

@MikeVVar Год назад

Yeah i just wish they showed it more, instead of showing it at the last 3 seconds of the movie

@showoofity50 Год назад

oh dude you should watch society.

@SelenaSecretShow Год назад

@@showoofity50dude the movie society is so f'ed up!! Ive tried to get that goop monster out of my mind. That movie makes me look at rich people differently.

@mariasarwar3669 5 месяцев назад

What are you ?12?

@stockwatsonnu8518 5 месяцев назад

@@mariasarwar3669 No I just got scared, which is what is supposed to happen during a horror movie. Since it stuck with me for a while that makes it a good horror movie. It’s tremendously hard these days to find a horror movie that does that. Also it doesn’t matter how old you are getting scared is what happens to everyone.

@jayjonesrgaming Год назад

This is the first summary of the creature I've seen that suggest the entity may be an extraplanar being instead of just a demon. I never got the sense the being was a demon because the movie has no religous/spiritual tones, which is usually common in demon movies. Instead I got a more Lovecraftian vibe off of it. The entity drives you mad until it's ready to show you it's true form and once it does it makes you go completely catatonic and literally crawls into your body forcing you to do it's bidding. Throughout the movie the theme of utter hopelessnes against this unkown, basically unstoppable, entity really drove home the Lovrcraftian-ness to me.

@isenhart2920 Год назад

Poor Rose. I don't think I've ever felt so bad for a horror movie victim.

@tranqle73 Год назад

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it mentioned that Munoz had a previous traumatic incident regarding his brother, prior to the suicide he witnessed? The Smiler also tells Rose her mind is inviting and that’s why it chose her. I think the Smiler can sense whether people have baggage and it goes after people with the most, since it feeds on trauma, and likewise it has proof and precedent they CAN be traumatized, so no worries about encountering someone who genuinely does not give a shit. Likewise, I think it prefers to engineer only a single witness to suicides. Isolation is a big part of the film, and the horrid intimacy of only the victim and the witness leaves the witness with nobody to share what they saw with. They’re totally alone, forced to handle it on their own with support that can only try to relate. It’s like a selfish, clingy hoarder that wants this one person and for themselves only.

@eyeheartsushi2212 Год назад

100% the Smiler chooses its victims wisely and makes sure all “transfers” are a one-witness scenario.

@Ojo10 Год назад

And Laura said her grandfather died right in front of her. This implies two possibilities, either it will bend the rules of one week in order to sniff out the best witness/victim. Or, there are just so many people we see everyday that hold unseen trauma that its never hard for it to spread and feed to full satisfaction.

@Josh-py9rq Год назад

I had my headphones on and that beginning part scared the piss out of me 😂

@willthebeast8002 Год назад

Damn. I'm mad for you.. 🤣

@rabidpistol9722 Год назад

Same here mate 😂

@eldenlord5938 Год назад

Same here that shit gave me a sense of lingering dread.

@shainewhite2781 Год назад

This was the second or third highest grossing horror film of the year, making $216 million dollars against a $17 million dollar budget. I remember watching the trailer in theaters while I was watching TOP GUN MAVERICK, and didn't know what it was about, until I saw the title, and thought, "Wow, what a creepy film this will be."

@onesaucynougat7471 Год назад

When I saw the trailer I said, great another dumb cheesy horror movie about smiling people. Watched it and was decently surprised at how good it was.

@skunney Год назад

This exact situation happened to me too lmao. Awesome film

@MisanthropicOcellus Год назад

Great the perfect thumbnail for 3 am, thanks

@filmcomicsexplained Год назад

You're welcome. Good night lol

@dj__alien Год назад

Three things which terrify me the more I think about this movie: 1. If the Smiler has to infect someone by infecting a person and killing them in front of another person, how did it first infect to begin the cycle? Did it just spawn from hell and hop into someone? It’s like the Smiler has always been within people, like it’s in a paradoxical cycle. 2. The Smiler most definitely broke into her house and placed Rose’s cat (Mustache) into the train set box she was wrapping for her sisters son. Meaning the Smiler can kill whoever and whenever it wants to. 3. This is something a lot of other people have commented; what happens if someone infected dies in front of a group or crowd of people, instead of just one person? Do they all get infected? Would multiple Smilers exist within other people?

@Gurtington Год назад

I feel like if the entity could take over multiple people at once he would and that would have been part of the movie. If he could "infect crowds" instead of one person at a time. Because we see near the end of the movie he physically or I guess mentally? Has to force his way into the person's body/psyche. Idk just a guess. But I'm of the belief that he can't inhabit more than one person at a time.

@Hezigrimm Год назад

It says in the movie that the cycle has ended before and started again. Maybe it has to do with someone getting a certain amount of trauma? Maybe if someone kills themselves in front of someone without being cursed can cause the cycle to begin? Who really knows.

@FragnarokNethermaster Год назад

3.- my thoughts: Not everyone would react the same way, someone must be prone to react way harder or be more traumatised, therefore, it could choose who to consume onto.

@Supperdude9 Год назад

@@FragnarokNethermaster This. Just like a predator approaches a herd, it will choose the weakest one to eat.

@mr_frownyexe127 Год назад

@@FragnarokNethermaster exactly my thoughts more people would suffer from the trauma

@TheJaker5 Год назад

The thing I really liked about this is that despite what we see as the audience, everything can be explained away in some manner. The movie walks a very fine line in that regard. Even the scene where Rose’s therapist becomes the entity and directly threatens her. We just abruptly cut to Rose stressed out in her car after she’s being pinned against the wall. This suggests it was just in her head.

@ninjaslash52_98 Год назад

It’s ALWAYS been just in her head that’s the whole movie none of it is real it’s all just the entity playing with her there’s even a whole minute dedicated to the entity EXPLAINING that it has full control over her mind

@ilovemovies5410 Год назад

@@ninjaslash52_98 I agree but also how do you explain the dead cat? Did Rose do it unknowingly?

@littlewolf6476 Год назад

@@ilovemovies5410 yeah. the smiler basically made her kill the cat, and wrap it up but she thought she was wrapping a regular gift which is why she doesn’t remember it happening. he played her like a puppet on a string

@ryanrobison8973 Год назад

I would say her not immediately being put on antipsychotics after starting to vividly hallucinate is pretty unrealistic. That’s literally what they are prescribed for, you don’t have to be delusional to get access to them.

@thedude2430 Год назад

The chuckle the entity made was terrifying.

@Rensune Год назад

I'd love to see the Smiler go up against someone who truly Does Not GaF. Like, there's nothing it can do to unbalance them To the point where it's pissed off at first, but then cowering in fear. Maybe cutting to the end where you see them die of old age. (and the creature dying along with them).

@connorbestbarlow1043 Год назад

Like when David jones stays with SpongeBob and eventually is no longer scary because SpongeBob is used to his antics

@Rensune Год назад

@@connorbestbarlow1043 essentially, yeah.

@homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl4971 Год назад

I always wondered what would happen if someone who the entity attached to just killed themselves somewhere no one could ever find them, would it just die off because it doesn't have a new traumatized host to transfer to?

@kingofmonsters2063 Год назад

@@homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl4971 after seeing the recap of the movie I hated the ending ah yes I know this creature litterally needs to have someone see me die im going into the woods to a abandon house why not just lite the house on fire

@jarods9974 Год назад

If a person haunted by an evil trauma entity dies in the woods and no one’s around to see it, can it make a sound?…. I mean…. Can it stop the curse?

@kyrosd7940 Год назад

It kinda reminds me of "It Follows". Both movies are definitely unique and have that creepy factor to it.

@saljpal3 Год назад

Feels like a mix of It Follows and IT, it feels very horrifying how malicious the entity is and only the afflicted can see it.

@lightningraven7013 Год назад

This movie gave me truth or dare vibes.

@strafer8764 Год назад

It Follows is much better

@thegrimscreamer7561 Год назад

@anthonylopez7887bro just because they like something better then the other thing doesn’t mean their trolling, it’s because they have an opinion, like seriously how many times do we need to have this conversation?

@LordMalice6d9 Год назад

@@strafer8764 But niether of these movies is that original. The Ring came out way before It Follows and Smile with a very similar premise. A nigh unstoppable entity that will inevitably get its victims.

@patricksleep9787 Год назад

I had Watch a lot of horror movies in my lifetime a few impacted me in a terrifying way and this film is one of them. Its been a while since I’ve felt that level of terror since I was eight years, and my god the experience it gave me was exactly that. I want to give a big round of applause to Mr. Finn, you have a lot of talent sir and I sure hope to see more:)

@lucre113 Год назад

probably because this is based off real life concepts

@Manic_Drone_Idiom Год назад

Patrick, we seem to have very similar movie viewing backgrounds - however I have not seen this one yet. Your remark about being impacted in a terrifying way struck a chord with me because that's exactly how I felt after watching Hereditary. I was curious if you had seen it and had a similar experience....

@lucre113 Год назад

@@Manic_Drone_Idiom it’s almost as if it’s because these movies are based on real-life energy-feeding entities

@friedrice7876 Год назад

@@lucre113 like who huh? Tell us

@skipper7371 Год назад

@@lucre113 ain't no way you think demons and ghosts exist 😭😭

@damianstarks3338 Год назад

This entity is beyond terrifying.

@Gemini-js8zr Год назад

When she fell through that glass table. No one helped her. Even I was like “damn I get that she boxed you an expired cat. But c’mon she’s bleeding all over the floor.” Someone get her a napkin. I know she didn’t box the cat.

@storyinthemusic Год назад

I gotta say as someone who has seen a lot of horror movies in the past few years with creepy monsters, this one got me. That final monster was definitely one of the most creepy designs since the one in The Ritual.

@masonkinninger5460 Год назад

The ritual is terrifying. The monster design is great. That’s the type of horror movies I like the most: creature horror

@chulitna5838 Год назад

You know some movie monsters I feel like could just use a firm "f*ck off" and a punch to the nose to go away. For some reason when watching the movie I felt like the Trama demon would have been one of those monsters.

@eldenlord5938 Год назад

Fear quickly turns to Anger then Hatred. Take a fucking axe to that thing atleast die fighting right?

@chulitna5838 Год назад

@@eldenlord5938 I don't think the movie director wanted people to take away turn your trauma into anger. But I mean if a trauma demon was harassing me I get pretty pissed off and smack it upside the head. I feel like it's a shark or a bear and it looks and acts all tough but when even the slightest bit of resistance is sent it's way it would cower in fear.

@wmdkitty Год назад

@@chulitna5838 And then come back to whisper at you in the darkness at 3 AM when you can't sleep.

@supapoopatroopa6882 Год назад

@@chulitna5838I mean it certainly seems like the director was saying “it’s impossible to escape your trauma and it will destroy you or everyone else” which is a shit message for someone with trauma

@daratemple Год назад

Yea I definitely would’ve fought or tried to beat this thing

@Claire_Loves_Music Год назад

I was surprised by how much I liked this one. My expectations were pretty low though and I wasn't 100% sure what the plot was. All I had seen were some short clips from TikTok that didn't tell what the movie was about. I don't scare easily with movies (I watch them alone at night) and the car scene got me! It's been a long time since a movie scared me so much I had to pause it and take a minute. I was not expecting it! I really thought it was her sister coming back to say something more.

@grapeshot Год назад

Oh trauma and how each of us deal with it in our own way.

@Hershal721 Год назад

As a corporal I’m sure you know a lot of trauma LOL

@fredericgibbinsthe2nd721 Год назад

I see this film as a reflection of society currently. Alot of people are mentally ill now a days and dont seek proper therapy. People walking around day to day just getting by, forced to "smile" through the pain they deal with. It can turn rotten for some of those stricken by mental health issues. Where you see on the news about people killing all these other people, or how our national suicide rate has increased exponentially over the years. And how these actions taken by those with mental health issues, traumatized those around them. From the mass shooter to depressed guy in his mom's basement. I think it was a symbolic. At least in my opinion.

@arlen7726 Год назад

The sort of viscerally terrifying thing to think about with this even outside of the plot is that other species can misinterpret human smiles as an aggression display, and the same is true in reverse. There’s a reason that we find an overly-large grin in the dark so terrifying.

@deadlyEuphoria420 Год назад

it's a metaphor for the damage suicide does to those left behind

@samfield2590 Год назад

I like this view

@eyeheartsushi2212 Год назад

Although Rose’s mother was technically a suicide attempt.

@Claire_Loves_Music Год назад

THAT CAR SCENE!!!! I don't scare easily, but that part got me.

@AceOfHeartz4 Год назад

I wasnt expecting a jump scare and i legitimately threw my phone

@prarambh1589 Год назад

Very innovative I guess

@chrisd997 3 месяца назад

Seriously from all the scary things , the cat was the one?

@Claire_Loves_Music 3 месяца назад

@@chrisd997 what cat? I'm talking about the scene right after she argues with her sister and is in her car. Her "sister" then walks back out of the house, knocks on the window, and her head swings down.

@chrisd997 3 месяца назад

@@Claire_Loves_Music my mistake! indeed the scene was crazy scary.

@lupinbun7240 Год назад

I just realised, the entity ensured that the next... host I guess?... beyond Joel, would be the little nephew. It seems to prey on people with a history of trauma, making them witness a suicide to push them over the top. The entity used and manipulated Rose into traumatising the nephew on his birthday, giving him past trauma, and making him vulnerable to the entity through Joel.

@anxioussamurai9017 Год назад

Smile, along with Barbarian, are some of the best horror movies I've seen in a long time. One aspect of Smile that doesn't get enough attention is the sound design! From the opening credits to the last scene, the sounds are as scary as anything you're seeing on the screen.

@yanosik5665 Год назад

If you want a good movie recomendation,kinda scary, quite gory and true to history "volhynia" is a good choice

@maltemejlstrup4746 Год назад

Watching this video reminded me of "the smiling man" an old creepypasta that absolutely terrified me the first time I read it and saw the artistic renditions of what the man could've looked like. There's something very creepy about unsettling wide smiles. The only proper nightmare I've ever had as a child ended with someone or something within one of those boxes filled with power cables luring me to it and as I looked into the hole that was in said box it gave me a wide grin and I woke up.

@appalachiabrauchfrau Год назад

I was ashamed to be disturbed by smiledog, I was in high school ffs. So, you're not alone with being afraid of a smile copypasta lol. Must be some buried instinctual fear of grinning, since apes grin for much diff reasons than we do, or maybe I just don't want to admit that I was simply afraid of a badly done shop of a husky with people teeth.

@maltemejlstrup4746 Год назад

@@appalachiabrauchfrau grinning can easily be creepy, especially when unnaturally wide. That said, smile dog was one of the worst creepypastas back then I agree. the smiling man however is actually pretty well written and is very creepy. It's what I was reminded of with this movie. Also back when smile dog was around us who were kids, teenagers or below, seemed to get creeped out by even the lowest effort creepypastas lol. Jeff the killer was really popular despite being arguably the worst creepypasta of all time.

@bard4788 Год назад

I was watching thinking it was like Pennywise feeding off the persons fear and like IT could be beaten through overcoming fear. But then realised trauma, especially one just witnessed is not overcome so quickly or even truely able to be overcome but only learned to live with

@WorldsAway000 Год назад

After just finishing the movie myself, I think the entity always had the power to possess its victims from the start. That's the only explanation I can think of when thinking about what happened with 'Mustache' the cat and how Rose had absolutely no idea about it. In saying that, I think the reason why the entity doesn't kill straight away is because its trying to inflict as much trauma as it can inflict on its victims. So basically it makes a sport of terrorising and breaking down its victims mental state, until it feels they're right for it to feed on.

@hailhekate Год назад

Yes it’s able to jump into people it picks the right moment for people to kill themself or another where there will be a witness around. It hunts one victim at a time, and no one else can see it but that victim. It drives the victim crazy so family doesn’t believe them. The way I understood it the entity hypnotizes people so it’s hard to look away. I believe it preys on people with more trauma because it’s able to break their minds faster. (Ex- psychiatrist and cops often have ptsd)

@ZyroShadowPony Год назад

Is it me or does the ending give a feeling that joel has a better chance of surviving because he was there for rose the entire time and would know more info than someone who has no idea about the situation

@ForeverLuxeDesigns Год назад

I said the same thing, joel has the cheat codes.

@michaelthatoker7125 Год назад

That’s why I hope there’s a sequel. Movie almost makes it feel like a prequel with how they set him up

@CallMeMistaPepe Год назад

Only problem with that is, he doesn’t know about killing someone else. He had to leave the room so he doesn’t have that piece of information. Would be cool to see him loosing it and accidentally killing someone else and realizing how it works.

@NinjaCamper94 Год назад

@@CallMeMistaPepe what’s crazy if they set that up in the sequel and his trauma was accidentally killing someone as a cop

@CallMeMistaPepe Год назад

@@NinjaCamper94 could set it up that in the end he shot her, shooting an ex you’re still in love with would cause some type of trauma. Would work because of how the end cuts off.

@aka_miso Год назад

Seeing Kal Penn as the boss is the scariest part. I can only see him as high trying to get to white castle

@senpaiisofty4393 Год назад

I adore monsters like this - the kinds that are based in psychological horror, mental issues, and trauma. It’s not only more ‘realistic’ to me, but it shows how one’s actions can effect others and that certain horrors will forever haunt us. We can never truly run from them, we can only try our best to keep our distance and try to manage things so they don’t get worse. Reminds me of The Babadook, which is also a psychological movie but based in a mother’s trauma and how she slowly turns into an abuser.

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Год назад

Ngl this movie had a really weird and cool concept for a horror flick and made it work

@shyguy4206 Год назад

Never in my life would I imagine nearly getting a heart attack just by scrolling and seeing 'that' thumbnail

@CeeDoubleU Год назад

Absolutely f*cking terrifying

@Garian9 Год назад

An excellent horror film that brings light to how trauma/PTSD can manifest in someone and escalate to the point that it completely overtakes and destroys your life eventually leading to suicide or get passed on by doing some awful to other people from the one suffering from it. A bold move by the director to give it the ending it had. It's rare for a horror movie to stick in your mind for days after like this one did for me. And as for the whole smile thing, I remember reading somewhere that people that pick a specific date for them to do it, in the last day or two some become upbeat and happy because they know their suffering will be over soon.

@TrueAmericanNative Год назад

I was really surprised by Smile. I saw it as a double feature with Terrifier 2. I was worried it was gonna be like truth or dare or the The Bye Bye Man. But it was actually more like it follows. It was full of constant tension, good acting story was pretty good. The only real hang up I had was with the ending. It would have been more emotionally fulfilling if when she overcame her trauma, she had broken the cycle and taken it’s power to perpetuate itself away from it. But maybe that would have been to much like the Babadook.

@staylurking4461 Год назад

This movie similar to Drag Me To Hell and It Follows plot a little bit.

@alexanderwells783 Год назад

Really felt for this character, the actress did a really good job in this film and it was scary as hell.

@Julmust1997 Год назад

This is probably the only movie I've watched as an adult that genuinely freaked me out, I love it

@darkwolfag12 Год назад

I felt so bad for mustache the cat... Such a good horror movie though

@ChristianPinnock-u5c 6 месяцев назад

I reckon the cat was called that because the pattern on his upper lip looks like a mustache

@tristansample5417 Год назад

One of the first horror movies that actually made me squirm in a long while. Props to the director and screen writers

@RubexQewb Год назад

One thing that annoyed me is when her fiancé accuses her of killing the cat when she could’ve just said that it must’ve been whoever broke in the house . She literally has proof that the alarm was triggered and cops were there to check . Idk why he would think it was her .

@duerf5826 Год назад

This is a good movie but trying to follow the logic too much would take you out of it. For an instance, in the movie she was absolutely TERRIBLE at explaining what was happening to her when she literally had the evidence in her hands. And when there is a chain of 19 murders where the victims had a history of chain interaction with one another, the FBI would be all over it. And the cop who found the pattern didn't report it to anyone????? When I watch movies I try to put myself in a "movie mode" where I turn my thinky-thinky part off and enjoy the "movie logic" but sometimes it gets so dumb that I can't help but to groan a little bit.

@ItsKristopher Год назад

I like the nick name given to this thing, definitely more than appropriate. Especially since it's a sadistic killer. Giving almost infinite joy, and feasting off the traumatized and the depressed, it will always smile.

@latenitexeno Год назад

Really good film however I feel that they missed out on making the trauma metaphor come full circle. They could've made the main way to defeat the entity is by conquering one's own trauma that way the allegorical theme of trauma destroying lives would demonstrate how conquering your own trauma is the only way you'll be set free

@eyeheartsushi2212 Год назад

They sort of alluded to that when Rose “killed” the entity only to find out later trauma just stays with you. One does not “conquer” trauma: one learns to accept and live with it.

@dairydregone7146 Год назад

If Creepypasta was a movie. This will be it

@Buritsu Год назад

What if “Laura hasn’t slept” was a prequel to “Smile?” But the entity messed with Laura with dreams instead?

@mr.checkyourself4672 Год назад

Two ways to possibly break the curse is to violently and horrifically kill someone or if the victim time is up and the curse start making the victim smile to the next victim either shield your eyes or turn away or just run away as the curse need the next victim to stare at it to pass it on.

@TheCorrodedMan Год назад

My idea is thus: lock the cursed individual in an airtight room, either against their will or by design, and then wait for it to show up. Once it does, fill the room with some of the highest grade sleeping gas money can buy. I mean some of that childhood melatonin shit, none of that weak sauce stuff. Once it’s been knocked out, proceed to beat the everloving shit out of it until it either disappears or dies.

@icetea3400 Год назад

@@TheCorrodedMan Find two serial Killers Dexter style. Take them both to Antarctica, kill one brutally in front of the other serial killer and leave him stranded in the middle of Antarctica 😎

@kingofmonsters2063 Год назад

@@TheCorrodedMan or have the victim in the room and burn them and have no one witness it so the demon has no where to go

@Nogdog945 Год назад

This. Is how pennywise should have evolved. A being preying on the fears of being an adult it’s a lot more terrifying as you get older. Social expectations of being seen as absolutely fine to everyone and the moment you act up you’re instantly afraid of everything unraveling and therefore your fear takes hold. This a perfect feast for him as that would force him to truly become more twisted

@jamesmmcgill Год назад

Smile, though your heart is aching... Smile even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by... If you smile through your fear and sorrow, Smile and maybe tomorrow, You'll see the sun come shining through... for you... Light up your face with gladness, Hide every trace of sadness, Although a tear may be ever so near... That's the time you must keep on trying... Smile, what's the use of crying? You'll find that life is still worthwhile, If you just smile...

@restal7517 Год назад

When these videos are recommended to me, I tend to turn it off then go and watch the film for myself before coming back, and I'm glad I did with this one. Enjoyed it a lot, though it's a shame Joel had to be hit by it in the end, I quite liked him.

@lunamoona4920 Год назад

Metaphorically, I think this monster represents mental illness, trauma, and suicide. It shows how isolating mental illness can be and how the subsequent suicide can effect loved ones, spreading trauma and suicidality.

@JackTorrance333 Год назад

Good solid film. Good solid analysis. Cheers

@Ozblivion Год назад

accidentally ends the cycle itself by killing itself in front of a sociopath sociopath: welp

@thealphaomega4888 Год назад

Man I’ve been watching horror films since I was 10 but this is one of those where it disturbed and made me hella uncomfortable. Well done

@Warsie-Fan Год назад

As a devout fan of the Horror genre, I feel in love with this movie! IMO, one of the better modern Horror films as of lately since IT: CHAPTER 2 & EVIL DEAD (remake). It has great elements which make for a well done film of its kind. 'No where to run' Check 👍 'No where to hide' Check 👍& 'No one believes you' Check 👍. Very scary things for our lead protagonist to be forced to deal with. I think of how John Carpenter used isolation and having his characters 'boxed in' with no where to run very often in his movies which where fantastic traits. THE THING, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, & GHOSTS OF MARS are just a few that come to mind. 'Tip of the hat' for the xcellent use of the music for the film to boot! Not everyone in my circle loved it as much as I did, however I highly recommend it for every Horror enthusiast who enjoy a good scare.

@thereisnosanctuary6184 Год назад

As always, make believe is metaphor for real life. Generational trauma is passed on. A bad day at work is taken out on loved ones or road rage. I feel the 'infection' of trauma in me. It makes you not you.

@grapeshot Год назад

Yeah so I guess we won't get none of those Joker like Smiles like we did on the movie Truth or Dare. Which to be honest with you I didn't think that movie was all that bad I've seen worse.

@TheFriendshipTunnel Год назад

Having not seen the movie, that bit at the beginning with the woman at the car window actually gave me chills bro

@ButWhyWasTaken Год назад

16:00 considering only the victims can see or hear it and Laura kept hallucinating, it really does't have reality alternating powers. Just the power to show hallucinations to those it stalks and mind control once it enters someone.

@Yukiyu77 Год назад

That movie isn't perfect but it's way, way better than my expectations going in. I've read comments criticizing the use of mental illness in the movie but I actually thought that's what made it interesting. You can spend a significant portion of the movie wondering whether in its in her head and even afterwards that are things that seem strange, like how all victims had to have suffered severe trauma as children and then are subsequently exposed to further trauma. So it doesn't seem to be able to just jump at anyone, only people who are bound to already have mental health issues. A super intense form of schizophrenia with traumatic event triggers that gives the impression it works like a contagious disease. The fact it only seems to affect one person at a time seems to suggest it's a demonic being, but who knows if it's happening elsewhere and we just never find out. Being a psychologist herself she should have probably known to just confess to the hospital exactly what she was seeing so they'd lock her up and keep her under surveillance so she couldn't get objects to kill herself with. I mean, it's what I've would've have done. Then again this stupid hospital sends psychotic patients to rooms filled with objects easily turned into weapons. At the hospital her case might actually prompt further investigation, maybe yield actual evidence of a demonic possession.

@eyeheartsushi2212 Год назад

The movie DOES indicate there was at least another entity in Brazil.

@1javilen Год назад

the entity really through me off like it's design really just shocked me so much I felt so uncomfortable afterwards which really doesn't happen to me the ending was truly unexpecting

@elbee2324 Год назад

That looks like a real hidden gem. That being said, I hope they don't sequel and origin story rubbish it into the ground. Be sensible, Hollywood. >_>;

@duerf5826 Год назад

They made $216 million on a $17 million budget. Even if the sequel only makes half of it they're still gonna do it. The real question is when is the sequel coming out.

@gamble777888 2 месяца назад

I appreciate these thorough reviews of movies I have no intention of ever watching.

@asimovstarling8806 Год назад

The thing about such creatures is that they often parasitic in nature. and there are in deed more ways of killing it than what was cited in the film. No shade to the author/director, but such creatures feed on pain, then on fear, then rage, then sorrow, all the while feeding on what little power you have while allowing you to sense it. The easiest way to deal with such a creature, is to eat it. such monsters are often gluttons of an extreme order, but often cannot fathom another being capable of feeding off them. Learn to live in a place that balances on the atom wide edge of the knife, between all consuming rage and mind numbing fear, and you will be set free from them by your own hand as they scream in fear or you. but once you commit yourself to that path, you will draw more of them like moths to a street light in an eternal night.

@jarods9974 Год назад

You have a lot of experience with these creatures my man?

@asimovstarling8806 Год назад

@@jarods9974 since my earliest memories. most people are blessed by ignorance of what surrounds them. Magic is merely science that has not yet been understood. and religious faith blinds those who have power from the truth around them. antidepressants and other similar such medicines do not make these creatures vanish, merely rob the conscious mind the ability to fight back against the hallucinations often purpose crafted to instill fear, paranoia, and a manic hyper activity. Never drop your guard with a creature that feeds on mental energies, as it can force you to live a nightmare. such as what happened to me. I experienced a nightmare of a man and his son being killed by a form of mimic. A red couch that unfurled into tentacles and fangs in near infinite abundance but used an invisible tentacle with a life like lure at the tip shaped like a beloved pet. That nightmare occurred once every 15 seconds for nearly 7 days. during that time I did not sleep, I barely ate, and I nearly died.. I learned to never drop my guard. It took four years to eat every last trace of his existence outside of my memory of him. If the medicines work for you, then you must face the inescapable fact that you were dealing only with hallucinations. But if the medications only make things worse, then the only clear conclusion is that such creatures are real, and science is not yet prepared to handle such a notion. When I consume such creatures, I gain sustenance, and no longer need food until my hunger returns much later.

@NinjaCamper94 Год назад

I thought the movie was really good but I was mad at the ending since they thought it was too predictable. But if you think about it her trauma was being scared of her mom AND the fact that she ran away instead of calling for help/911. She constantly avoids help when her friends ask and in the end even though she lights the demon on fire she runs away. She never learned from her trauma

@DakotaofRaptors Год назад

Imagine this concept for a horror movie: a sort of "infection" takes hold in a small town. Those afflicted are besieged with nightmares and claim to be hunted by a creature that wears the faces of its former victims, which nobody else can see. Gradually, this creature gets nearer until the victim disappears, presumably joining its collection. One such victim speaks to his psychiatrist, points outside the window, and claims it's right there, just outside the window, wearing the faces of people he once knew. Before walking away, he says it's too late for him, and that the psychiatrist is infected now. Deciding to look further into the disappearances, the psychiatrist finds that those that disappeared were a part of investigation regarding a manic and elderly man. Scarily, he recently started to have awful nightmares.

@vexmyth0clast Год назад

For some reason I found this demon really really creepy. Everything it does and how it shows itself really disturbed me.

@emergencyexitonly6268 Год назад

There was a lot of screaming and nervous laughter when I saw this in the theater. This is the first horror movie that has actually managed to disturb me.

@dontajones5994 Год назад

Seeing the trauma entity in the movies proved that I still have not seen it all. Seeing it still feels wild..

@davidfalloutbandit Год назад

ive actually hand first hand encounter with an entity like this. once when i was younger i was in my kitchen at 2am yelling 'WE LIKE FORTNITE' for several hours and in entity that looked exactly like my mother showed up and beat the shit out of me

@MrAdamske Год назад

Here's how you beat the entity. 1) jump in front of a train or a rollercoaster so that so many people see it that the entity doesn't know who to haunt and thus gets anxiety itself. 2) off yourself somewhere no can see so you break the cycle 3) profit

@TheKain202 Год назад

4)... 5) Sike! It will just give you delusions to string you along until there's a proper set-up for the transfer. 6) Profit.

@brandyseverin4077 Год назад

Madeline (the psychiatrist) smiling like that and walking up and over the couch was terrifying

@bunnygirl4 Год назад

Seeing that scene in the cinema made my heart sink completely

@ethribin4188 Год назад

"We can't help our patience if we dont take care of our own mental health first." This! This is so very very imporrant! I know it means little in this case, where a literal entity is going around. But still. The quote holds just as much sway here as irl.

@edpadilla9402 Год назад

[Terminator/The Boys] What If Terminators Were In The Boys

@housewilma4904 Год назад

the real issue would be vought immiedatly trying to build them themselves creating a skynet with data on metahumans. which would have been the biggest weapon agasint the machines as they couldnt use compound V without more organic materiel.

@samfield2590 Год назад

Here comes the A train

@deletedaccount7 Год назад

This is one of those movies i really wanted to be amazing but felt it had a few issues that held it back a bit. It was a good movie but one of the things that hurt it was it felt like they couldn't choose between a monster movie with a monster monster, or a mental illness monster and it felt like those two types of monster movie ideas were clashing. I wish it didn't feel like it tried so hard to do both and instead just stuck to one or the other.

@eyeheartsushi2212 Год назад

I know what you mean. For a moment I thought the twist would be it was all mental illness and no evil entity. The Babadook was more successful in that sense.

@deletedaccount7 Год назад

@@eyeheartsushi2212 agreed it's really sad too because it felt like it had everything it needed to be amazing including great actors, but trying to be both instead of focusing on one just undone most of it.

@TCFC2 Год назад

That monster is a terrifying design.

@Bl1tzkn1ght Год назад

It's all fun and games until the entity tries to traumatize a Sociopath who doesn't care.

@andresvaldevit3692 Год назад

Can you immagine if most mental conditions, at least the worst traumatic ones are caused by similar entities and our total inability to deal with them?

@RedRum. Год назад

Not gonna lie when that thing ripped off its face and revealed it's true face that creeped me tf out and it takes alot to creep me out 😂 haven't been truly scared since I was a kid when darkness falls came out idk why that scared me so much I watched hellraiser at 4 years old like wtf lol

@thedannybseries8857 Год назад

It goes without saying that this demon is incredibly sadistic, and is a being you absolutely don’t wanna cross.

@laurenced2916 Год назад

I would actually want to see a sequel to this

@chrisberg7862 Год назад

Really great movie. The ending kind of worries me though. I hope people with trauma realize it doesn’t define you, you can heal from it, and you’re stronger than it. Demons ain’t got shit on you

@armandas5656 Год назад

the true form of the demon is a top notch design, creative and horrifying af

@Kcirddor Год назад

Honestly the ending defeat the message of the movie 😂

@Cujo_Red Год назад

Really enjoyed this movie. However, I thought it was a bit longer than it should have been. A lot of the transition shots were a little long and could have been cut. I thought the use of flipping the establishing shots was nice, but a bit over used. I also thought Rose's character could have been rounded out a little more. She's a caring therapist with a traumatic past, yes, but I feel as though a little more depth could have made the audience care about her more. The scene where the entity opens her mouth will take a while to leave my head, though. Truly terrifying. Maybe a more conclusive or satisfying ending would have been nice. All this effort for her just to die and pass it on was a bit frustrating,

@ercolearmani6186 Год назад

If i knew that this curse could be given to someone else through traumatic experiences i would just end someone with a short remaining lifespan (old person) while traumatising someone else. Tbh i don't care as long as i'm free.