Horror followers have in contrast the newly launched movie Smile to the 2014 cult favorite flick It Follows.
Smile was launched final Wednesday (28 September). The movie follows therapist Dr Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) who meets a graduate scholar Laura (Caitlin Stasey) who just lately witnessed the suicide of her professor.
When Laura dies by suicide in entrance of Rose, the grotesque second triggers a series of terrifying occasions for Rose who all of a sudden feels haunted by the identical evil presence that had beforehand tormented her affected person.
The entity manifests as different individuals, solely identifiable by way of a chilling smile that seems on their face.
The movie has obtained blended opinions. You possibly can learn The Unbiased’s three-star assessment right here. Many viewers, nevertheless, have praised Smile for its “nice bounce scares” and for being “actually terrifying”.
Many individuals have identified similarities between the plot of Smile and that of David Robert Mitchell’s critically acclaimed 2014 horror movie It Follows.
It Follows stars Maika Monroe as a younger lady who’s pursued by an unknown supernatural pressure after an odd sexual encounter. The opening moments of the movie reveal that the entity is handed on by way of sexual activity and that it’ll observe its sufferer till it kills them in an analogous vein to Smile.
Likewise, the supernatural entity of It Follows additionally manifests as normal-seeming individuals.
“In order that Smile film is simply It Follows? As a result of it appears identical to It Follows,” wrote one individual on Twitter.
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One other added: “Smile is precisely like It Follows, so please don’t waste your cash.”
“Smile sucked, go watch It Follows as an alternative,” stated another person.
A fourth individual wrote: “Smile = It Follows,” with one other writing: “Seen all of it earlier than. It Follows. The Ring and many others. That stated, I very a lot loved Smile.”
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“We felt the identical in that it was an It Follows/Ring clone however thought each had been considerably higher than Smile,” stated one other viewer. “Loved Smile however not in similar tier of the opposite two imo.”
Another person disagreed, writing: “Smile had completely no proper to be pretty much as good as it’s. Certain, it rips on the narratives of The Ring and It Follows however it manages its personal id by way of some horrific imagery (that ending?!?!) and a stellar Sosie Bacon. One other horror win for 2022.
Many individuals additionally stated that the movie was a mixture of each It Follows and the Japanese horror film The Ring.
Smile is out in UK and US cinemas now.
