First of all, you really shouldn't watch the trailers or teasers. I didn't and I'm so happy I did because I feel like so many plotpoints and jumpscares get ruined. To some these are perhaps predictable, but I would have been much more comfortable and less easily scared if I had watched the trailers.
This covered, I really enjoyed this movie. I hadn't seen a truly scary movie in some time and I remember years ago I loved seeing movies like The Conjuring nad Insidious. But after watching those and the sequels that followed them my intrest in these types of movies started to decline because of repetitiveness. The movie being set around mental illness and trauma is also something that made it seem not entirely fictional.
I especially liked the sound effects and eerie feeling I got from these aforementioned movies and Smile brought this back and more. I watched it in theatre with some sort of 'ultra sound' extra effects added to the audio which allowed for an intense, loud and personal movie experience. This I must say really just played off so well with the movie. Squinting your eyes because the music just makes it seem like something will happen at any moment. A scene change that switches to someone opening a can of catfood that was so loud and perfectly time right after a silence gave everyone in the theater a good scare which was followed by a laugh because of how stupid it was that this innocent scene made them (and me) jump.
It is a real good watch and I recommend wholeheartedly that you go see it in theatres or at least somewhere where the audio can actually do its job and make this movie something that I hope will stay as a standalone movie because a sequel would honestly never live up to the expectation.
This covered, I really enjoyed this movie. I hadn't seen a truly scary movie in some time and I remember years ago I loved seeing movies like The Conjuring nad Insidious. But after watching those and the sequels that followed them my intrest in these types of movies started to decline because of repetitiveness. The movie being set around mental illness and trauma is also something that made it seem not entirely fictional.
I especially liked the sound effects and eerie feeling I got from these aforementioned movies and Smile brought this back and more. I watched it in theatre with some sort of 'ultra sound' extra effects added to the audio which allowed for an intense, loud and personal movie experience. This I must say really just played off so well with the movie. Squinting your eyes because the music just makes it seem like something will happen at any moment. A scene change that switches to someone opening a can of catfood that was so loud and perfectly time right after a silence gave everyone in the theater a good scare which was followed by a laugh because of how stupid it was that this innocent scene made them (and me) jump.
It is a real good watch and I recommend wholeheartedly that you go see it in theatres or at least somewhere where the audio can actually do its job and make this movie something that I hope will stay as a standalone movie because a sequel would honestly never live up to the expectation.
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