{"id":86258,"date":"2022-10-04T03:18:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T03:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-delightfully-unsettling-horror-movie\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T03:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T03:18:32","slug":"a-delightfully-unsettling-horror-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-delightfully-unsettling-horror-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Delightfully Unsettling Horror Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
Say cheese. A new horror movie has arrived in theaters and has featured a marketing campaign like no other. Brief teaser trailers showcasing creepy smiles, actors smirking maniacally a the camera at Major League Baseball games, and the fact that this movie shifted from a streaming release to a theatrical one following positive test screenings has the world waiting for smile<\/strong>. This movie follows psychiatrist Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon), who gets haunted by an entity with an evil smile after witnessing a traumatic incident with one of her patients.<\/p>\n smile<\/strong> is a unique, well-directed horror movie. It is another fine addition to September’s phenomenal run of original films and a great one for closing out the month. This movie comes out the same month as films like barbarian<\/strong> and pearls<\/strong>, and it may be even better than those. When the trailer came out, it was genuinely challenging to decide whether this would be an excellent horror movie or an absolute trainwreck. Fortunately, it was the former, as smile<\/strong> will blow you out of the water with how well-written, intense, and genuinely scary it can be. Who knew what horrors would be found within this frightening feature?<\/p>\n I went into smile<\/strong> expecting to hate it. I wasn’t fully onboard for the first few minutes. At first, it felt as if the opening scene was not chilling enough, another character would have been a worthy protagonist, and the movie could have been another Truth or Dare<\/strong> \u2014 another movie that uses evil smiles as its antagonist. However, the movie quickly picks up the pace and gets you onboard with its horrifying, gory imagery that avoids being gratuitous while perfectly depicting the scary nature of the movie. While this premise could have easily slipped into comical territory, it works surprisingly well.<\/p>\n smile<\/strong> is written and directed by Parker Finn in his feature directorial debut. This is a superb debut from a strong horror filmmaker. His camera movements and use of darkness are stylish and phenomenal. One of the key talking points this movie may start among audiences is the amount of jump scares it features. While it offers many jump scares, they are not cheap, false, or ineffective. Some horror movies feature characters grabbing the protagonist’s shoulder accompanied by a piercing noise; this is not that movie. The jump scares can sometimes catch you off guard, which is the highest compliment that I can give to a movie that uses this cinematic technique.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n