Beyond Fest Brings 'Hellraiser' to the Big Screen Along With 'Halloween Ends' and 'Christmas Bloody Christmas'! She wrote: " Smile navigates unhealed trauma through a supernatural lens and mischievous juxtaposition, despite feeling like a shadow of other stories", and added that it "delivers a captivating and claustrophobic mental hellscape that will cause one to both grimace and grin. Dialogue is clear and tight, sounds perfectly natural and dominated by the frontal array; effects and ambience are taken up by all the surround speakers, so that visuals match the sound, phones ringing off screen for example, cars moving across screen; children playing at a party; there is a real sense of naturalism, despite the supernatural elements of the film. Rose panics and runs back inside, where the demon reveals its true form – a skinless, semi-humanoid monstrosity with multiple sets of malformed jaws nesting within an enormous, smiling mouth.

It was only released at the end of September, but we already know when it will come to DVD and Blu-ray. For those who wanted to catch some of the biggest movies of Fall 2021 but never got around to going to the theaters, the first month of 2022 is going to be a busy month. Rose Cotter after witnessing a tragic accident involving one of her patience before getting haunted by these events herself.Rose and Joel visit him in jail, where he claims that the entity feeds on trauma, and that the only way to escape it is to brutally kill someone else in front of a witness to traumatize them. As for what to expect, Dr Rose Cotter witnesses a traumatic event involving one of her patients and a string of mysterious but shocking events soon follows that makes her confront her own unsettling past. With one of the most effective and quite brilliant viral ad campaigns in recent years raising mainstream awareness of Parker Finn’s unnerving and genuinely creepy premise, can the film surrounding it all actually really deliver? She eventually turns around, and the now smiling Rose sets herself on fire, which in turn passes the curse to Joel. Not everything has been announced for February 2022 at this point, but the movies that will be landing in our DVD players and Digital libraries are an impressive bunch.

Paramount has had quite the year with box office successes like Scream, Jackass Forever, Sonic 2, and Top Gun: Maverick, but Smile might be their crowning achievement this year. He also starts like a rocket, the pacing flitting along, cramming in everything you need to know and piling on the tension. It’s still in theaters and the film is releasing on digital and Paramount+ this week on November 15. Spinning Smile on a cold, dark winter night I was immediately reminded of the lean and mean J-Horror, so eloquently described by Mark in Ju-on . The sparseness of the hospital, the stark bare trees against skyline, cat fur, the dilapidated cabin, dead leaves etc etc – everything is keen with tight edges.

He is initially apprehensive, but eventually relents, and the former couple find several cases where someone witnessed a suicide, then a few days later went onto commit suicide in front of someone else, who continued the pattern. Marisa Mirabal of IndieWire gave the film a grade of B−, noting its plot's similarities to films such as It Follows, The Ring, Oculus and Final Destination. On December 13, 2022, it was revealed that the movie’s home video release included an audio commentary by Finn (complete with commentary subtitles), among other extras. The original source is pristine, there are no compression issues, indeed very little to fault, but equally, not much to make it stand out from the crowd. The Dolby Atmos track creates a wonderfully creepy atmosphere, thanks mainly to the percussive and disorientating score, which coos, pops, howls, and buzzes above, below, and all around.