"Not for me."
This delightfully disorientating psychological horror/thriller works through its clever use of camera, unnerving soundscape and convincing performances. An over-worked female psychotherapist in an emergency psychiatric ward encounters a distraught young woman patient (who claims to be pursued by a sinister smiling figure) with tragic results and then seemingly becomes haunted by the same vision as her grip on reality starts to disintegrate. Sosie Bacon gives an exhaustingly-committed performance as the unravelling psychotherapist Rose. Reminiscent of the transferable-curse concept behind It Follows, Smile manages to make smiling utterly creepy, and by playing reactions to this high concept completely straight, Rose's increasing paranoia is effectively credible in this unsettling film.
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