While suicide seems inevitable, there's another way to escape the chain and survive the creature's attack. And that is choosing from your own free will to scar another person's mind. While investigating the entity, Rose gets in touch with Robert (Rob Morgan), the only person who survived after being cursed by trauma.
Not only is Rose unable to defeat the demon in Smile's ending but, in a truly vicious twist, the entity waits until Joel arrives before possessing and killing her. This means that it will be able to live on in him since the curse needs a witness to pass itself on.
[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Smile.] The smile curse operates in a fairly consistent fashion throughout the film. One infected person is consumed, the entity forces them to take their own life and then the witness becomes cursed. But, what if multiple people witness that death?
Rose sees the monster, has a mental breakdown, and can't move. She truly and fully embodies the curse by starting a fire with her own body. Joel realizes too late that Rose has given him the curse. It's an effective ending since it doesn't seem that Rose would be able to survive this.
Even though Rose did everything she was supposed to do — that we're supposed to do to process our own trauma — the monster still won. The cycle will continue. Smile writer-director Parker Finn characterizes the two endings of his film as an attempt to get ahead of audiences' expectations.
The final moments of the film see Joel rushing in too late to stop Rose from immolating herself. Her apparent suicide passes the trauma on to him and keeps the cycle going.
The Smile demon's true form is the stuff that nightmares are made of. When Rose finally sees it at the end of the movie, she is stunned into silence. The entity in Smile is able to shapeshift and become any person that it wants to.
~ The Smile Entity, taunting Rose about how she will never be able to get rid of it. The Smile Entity is the main antagonist of the 2022 horror film Smile.
Smile clearly wants the audience to see the connection between Rose's curse and mental illness. Throughout the movie, characters use therapy buzzwords and often suggest that Rose's mental state is a result of her genetics and past trauma.
Drenched in oil, a grinning Rose is forced to light herself on fire before Joel's very eyes. Soon enough, Joel will endure the unspeakable hallucinations that Laura, Rose, and many others had to face. Easily being the most likable character in Smile, Joel now houses the curse.
Finn says the face at 1:48:20 is a “true look at the evil thing that's been hiding behind all the smiles.” They called the entity Lollipop — thus explaining the use of The Chordettes' “Lollipop” at the start of the end credits — and this is what happens at the end of every cycle as the beast physically enters the ...
She pours it on herself and lights a match. After spending our time seeing things from Rose's perspective, often in uncomfortably closeup shots, we see her final moments through Joel's eyes, who can't look away despite his horror. The curse has now been passed on to him.
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Rose initially panics, but starts smiling evilly, presumably because that her racist beliefs about black people would be right, as Chris would end up acting like a beast. Chris, either now unwilling or too exhausted to kill his former girlfriend, stops strangling her.
Fully possessed by the demon, Rose douses herself in gasoline and sets herself on fire — just as the real Joel bursts inside her home and witnesses her death, becoming the next victim.
What does the monster look like at the end of Smile?
In her final confrontation with this sinister smiler, it attacks Rose as a tall and spindly creature, which rips off its face to reveal rows of toothy grins. The demon forces itself into her mouth, just before Joel breaks into her family home.
Rose begins experiencing hallucinations induced by the demon. Shortly after, she has trouble finding her cat, Mustache, and its tragic fate is revealed during her nephew's birthday party. The boy opens Rose's present to discover her cat's dead body.
The Smile Entity as it strangles Rose, and its most infamous quote. You can't escape your own mind, Rose. The Smile Entity, also called The Monstrosity or simply The Smile Demon, is the main antagonist of the 2020 horror short film Laura Hasn't Slept, as well as its 2022 film adaptation/sequel Smile.
The film sustains a strong sense of foreboding and threat throughout, with central themes of trauma and death. There are frequent jump scares and some very strong violence. This movie is incredibly scary and disturbing at the same time.
For example, Smile Tapes, is that real or fictional? Well it's not really. Analog horror just loves to touch in real-life situations just to make u believe it's real, just like how horror movies always claim “based on true stories”. That's just strategy to let people be convinced that it is.
Joel lies to Ellie in order to prevent her going back to the hospital and sacrificing herself for the good of humanity. Even if she does not want to give her life, Joel's lie still protects Ellie from the mental burden she would have to carry if she knew what really happened.
What is the difference between Smile and it follows?
In It Follows, the terrifying monster uses its human form to hunt down and kill the cursed individual. In Smile, the monster takes a human form to frighten and torment the accused, eventually possessing the victim's body and forcing them to commit suicide.
Joel decides to kill the Fireflies due to his newfound love for Ellie. After losing Sarah and becoming a cold, broken man, Ellie brought him back. In his reluctance to lose another daughter, Joel massacred the Fireflies.
