With a shard of a broken vase, Laura kills herself by slitting her throat. After Rose calls for help, she sees Laura standing up and smiling. Soon after, Laura stumbles to the floor and begins screaming. Laura claims that an entity taking the form of smiling people has been terrorizing her and has told her that she is going to die.

Rose Cotter meets with Laura Weaver, a graduate student who witnessed her art history professor die by suicide a few days earlier. It was a box office success, grossing over $217 million worldwide against a $17 million budget.Īt a psychiatric ward, therapist Dr. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the visuals, themes, cinematography and Bacon's performance, but criticized some of its jump scares and noted similarities to other horror films such as The Ring and It Follows. Smile premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2022, and was released in the United States on September 30. Originally set for release on the streaming service Paramount+, distributor Paramount Pictures opted to release the film theatrically after positive test screenings. Principal photography began that month in New Jersey and ended in November. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Kal Penn, and Rob Morgan, as well as Caitlin Stasey playing the same character she played in the short film.Ī feature adaptation of Finn's short was announced in June 2020, and the cast was added in October 2021.

The film stars Sosie Bacon as a therapist named Rose Cotter, who, after witnessing the bizarre suicide of a patient, goes through increasingly disturbing and daunting experiences, leading her to believe what she is experiencing is supernatural. Smile is a 2022 American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Parker Finn (in his feature directorial debut), based on his 2020 short film Laura Hasn't Slept.

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