Smile (V) (2022)
7/10
A flawed but effective creeper with an ending that must be grudgingly admired for how it sticks to its guns!
1 January 2023
"Because your mind is so inviting..." So I enjoyed this movie a lot, it was creepy and had a distinct feeling of encroaching and inescapable doom, it was well acted all around and about the only thing that really seriously annoyed me about its structure was that it had to be the most predictable horror movie I've ever seen in my goddamn life!! I predicted the poor cat, I predicted when the situations were real and when they weren't, and I saw every one of those ceaseless jump scares coming a mile away, I'm not usually so on the ball while watching a movie but it was so easy because you could tell because it went quiet and still every time just before something terrible apparition or whatever would pop up and it blurted out the obnoxious cliche noise which bugged me a little too, it's 2022 for crying out loud, why do we still get the big noise jump-scares, it's lame, it doesn't have to be loud to get its point across, it can be so much more effective when it's quieter, you're not really startled by what's happening it's the noise that's doing it! It also had some rather unmistakable similarities to certain recent horror movies about unseen evil entities cursing and tormenting the helpless until there is no escape, but it was okay because the movie was good enough to be it's own thing. Anywho I enjoyed it, it certainly engaged me all the way through and the demon was very evil and horrible and it was so unfair and sad how it got her in the end after all she'd been through and was going to start its cycle of death all over again... It wasn't as satisfying as if it had been truly beaten when she set it on fire and mentally forced it back but I kind of liked how it was a very uncompromising ending, she was ultimately doomed just like the rest. It is a horror movie after all, and sometimes they merit a hopeless ending. I loved the brief glimpse of its true hideous face if you could call it that, very grotesque and twisted, layered mouths inside of mouths reflecting how it gets inside her at the end as well as the malicious smiles. There was something about the story that I found scarier than the monster though, and that was the idea that something only you can see could ruin your life bit by bit and invade your mind and make you look insane until you have nobody and nothing left and are easy prey. I enjoyed this a lot it was good, very satisfyingly and just disturbing enough. I do wish that instead of Lollipop Lollipop oh Lolly Lolly POP at the end they should have played that song from the nineties, "I Love Your Smile" you know? Lol but I guess that one might have been a bit too upbeat but so was the one they'd picked! Nice movie, gave me the creeps, lingered in my head a while after I watched it, hope to see more in a sequel! Thank you and I wish ya a happy new year 🌻
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