It becomes clear that Rose's hallucinations aren't just in her head and that she is being taunted by a virus-like monster, or entity, that breaks its victims down before possessing them and using their bodies to kill them in front of a nearby witness.
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.
It is a sadistic and violent demonic entity that feeds off of the trauma of its victims, tormenting them to sustain itself, but also because it enjoys causing its victims to suffer, until they eventually kill themselves, or until it possesses them and forces them to kill themselves.
Then Rose does something she has probably done in therapy a million times: She confronts her mother's ghost, forgiving her younger self in the process. She turns and walks out of the room, but the monster follows her, morphing into a tall, pale, thin creature that fills the doorframe behind her.
With the curse seemingly over, she visits Joel in the Smile ending to apologize for pushing him out of her life. In what could be considered one of Smile's best reveals, however, Joel turns out to be the creature in disguise, revealing that Rose never actually left the house and is instead trapped in her own mind.
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.
The monster in Smile is a humanoid creature who has a huge grin, many jaws, and no skin. The monster essentially eats people and then those people become part of their body.
[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?
That's commendable, but the jump scares sometimes undermine the film's most important message: We hide real trauma behind a make-believe exterior. The delusions and visions Rose experienced led her to a literal place that allowed her to deal with her family trauma and truly accept her fate.
Rose Cotter, who witnesses one of her patients die by suicide in front of her. The shocking death triggers a domino effect that passes a curse onto Rose, who begins having hallucinations of people with creepy smiles everywhere she looks.
While its MO was for Rose to harm herself, the demon was also capable of physically interacting with the real world, as shown by the twist of it impersonating Dr. Madeline and attacking Rose. Thus, the monster could have feasibly killed Rose's cat.
Just as Rose thinks she got away from the entity, Joel starts to smile. The world around Rose fades away, and the psychiatrist realizes she never left her mother's old house. The creature was torturing her one last time before it possessed her body.
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 ...
One of the most heart-breaking casualties in Smile was Rose's cat, Mustache, but the film never revealed what actually happened to it. Smile follows Rose (Sosie Bacon), a doctor who gets cursed by an entity that presents itself through people with a sinister smile.
Ok so the movie Smile is based around a curse/entity that feeds and spreads through trauma. The main character Rose gets the Trauma both from her mother's death when she is young and also seeing her patient who had the Trauma die violently.
Most of the pictures are incredibly gory and bloody. May upset some. A woman accidentally bites her thumb creating a cut, some blood is shown. Blood and gore is infrequent but when it happens there is lots of it.
Expect extreme amounts of gore and violence, with face-slicing, face-ripping, gurgling blood, blood stains, blood spurts, a dead cat wrapped inside a child's birthday present, stabbings, gory crime scene photos, someone crashing through a glass coffee table, a scary monster, a neck bending in an unnatural way, fire, ...
Smile 2 has been confirmed by Paramount following the runaway success of the first Smile film, which was released back in September 2022. A sequel to Smile has been confirmed following the incredible success of the first movie.
As theorized in the movie, however, the creatures may be “quantum beings” and capable of changing form based on a person's fears, grief, and pain. They can become a “torturer or god.” For more Bird Box Barcelona content, here's whether or not there's a post-credits scene.
In Smile, the demon moves through each witness of the smiling suicide and then to the next after 7 days. This chain effect adds to the fear factor by heightening the anticipation among audience members of when the next person will arrive, and who will die next.
As Joel walks in, Rose is wearing that familiar creepy smile and has covered herself in gasoline – about to light a match. So no, Rose does not survive in Smile and even worse, it seems the curse has found a way to keep itself going, with Joel now presumably set to be its next victim.
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.
