Smile,directed by Parker Finn, chronicles a set stories like these. Before going to the theatres, I'd recommend you take the trigger warnings surrounding suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) very seriously.
CANNOT stress this enough - Massive trigger warning for suicide. There was way too much of it, and not enough warning. Every 15 minutes there was another graphic suicide scene, and/or some scene involving a psychotic break.
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.
Smile is rated R by the MPAA for strong violent content and grisly images, and language. Violence: People are seen cutting, stabbing, and burning themselves and others. A dead cat is shown.
Rose, from the very beginning, is known to have experienced trauma as a child, seeing her mother overdose in front of her. That trauma is laced with guilt as she could have called for help in her mother's dying moments — but chose not to.
Smile turns that into a literal monster only the victim can see, as though it's a hallucination. The parallels to actual psychosis are striking, and that's why everyone around the main character Rose Cotter initially believes it to be a post-traumatic breakdown as a result of witnessing a suicide.
The main antagonist of the film, a parasitic demon that attaches to each person for 7 days (making them kill themselves while smiling), is on the loose and eventually does appear in the film in its own jumpscare. The menacing entity attacks Rose towards the end of the film in its own eerie way.
“Smile” has been awarded an R rating due to its intense and mature subject matter, which includes graphic violence, strong language, and explicit sexual content. The film's unflinching portrayal of real-life issues and its commitment to authenticity necessitate an adult audience.
Despite the happy-sounding title, the movie Smile is not for children. It is a very graphic horror movie that shows several mutilated bodies in all their gory detail.
And when you see the creature during its climax, it's scary. The filmmakers crafted something so terrifying that it could've given me nightmares. But they do nothing with it. No, scratch that: they turn it into a jumpscare machine.
A well-used method throughout the film is the technique of inverting camera angles so that you see the city from an upside-down point of view or from side angles. By inverting the landscapes, you see the world as askew. This puts you into the mindset of Rose.
Studies suggest that trigger warnings may prompt a “nocebo” effect, where negative expectations of a situation cause more negative outcomes. Participants are told they may feel distressed as a result of viewing certain content, and this leads them to feel more distressed before or after viewing that content.
A trigger warning is a statement made prior to sharing potentially disturbing content. That content might include graphic references to topics such as sexual abuse, self-harm, violence, eating disorders, and so on, and can take the form of an image, video clip, audio clip, or piece of text.
Some studies found trigger warnings can promote students' emotional wellbeing by encouraging them to prepare for a potentially difficult discussion. However, when trigger warnings are used in isolation, or in a tokenistic way, they are not an effective strategy for managing trauma.
Great film, but not for kids under 13. I recommend this film to everyone who loves slightly disturbing films and TV shows like me but for anyone under the age of 13 you really should not watch it. It's very gory and contains adult language.
The MPAA rating has been assigned for “bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes an implied sex scene, a couple of kissing scenes between a man and a woman, and between two men, many scenes of horrific violence with slashing and stabbing with a hook ...
Sosie Bacon knew going into Smile that she would not be the Final Girl, as the Smile movie ending explained that there were no happy endings in this story. She even said she was glad the movie didn't have a happy ending (via THR).
The Smile Tapes (stylized as The SMILE Tapes) is an analog horror series created by Patorikku in 2021. The story is set in the mid-1990s in the United States and revolves around a fictitious new drug in circulation on the black market called "SMILE".
Smile is a 2022 American psychological supernatural horror film written and directed by Parker Finn (in his feature directorial debut), based on his 2020 short film Laura Hasn't Slept.
“Smile's” greatest asset is its relentless, oppressive grimness: This is a film where children and pets are as vulnerable as adults, and the horror elements are bloody and disturbing to match the dark themes.
