Smile

You won't be cheesing after seeing 2022's horror movie 'Smile.' Featuring a curse that feeds on trauma, 'Smile' has a bleak ending. Let's explain it.

Despite learning that killing another person in front of a witness could free her of the curse, Rose ultimately decides to face the entity head-on. Smile grossed a whopping $17.6 million at the [box office](https://www.distractify.com/p/billy-eichner-net-worth) during its second weekend. [988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline](https://988lifeline.org/). She manages to light the smiling beast on fire, which in turn sets the rotting house ablaze, before escaping to her Jeep and driving off. She travels to her dilapidated childhood home, hoping to isolate herself and the entity. Soon enough, Joel will endure the unspeakable hallucinations that Laura, Rose, and many others had to face. Drenched in oil, a grinning Rose is forced to light herself on fire before Joel's very eyes. Now that the utterly traumatized Rose has witnessed the wrath of the smile curse, it's only fitting that she starts experiencing haunting visions that mimic the hell Laura described. The patient, Laura (Caitlin Stasey) — who carves a smile-shaped line into her own throat — has been dealing with a trauma of her own. See, when Rose was 10 years old, her mother (Dora Kiss), who suffered from mental illness, overdosed before realizing that she had made a grand mistake. [horror](https://www.distractify.com/p/scary-movies-to-stream) flick, aptly named [Smile](https://www.distractify.com/p/smile-movie-streaming), are anything but pretty. See, after Laura witnesses her professor die by suicide, she is stalked by a demonic entity of sorts, one that takes the form of regular people and plasters creepy, cold-blooded grins on their faces.

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[SCREAMBOX](https://bloody-disgusting.com/tag/screambox/) announced today that the acclaimed horror documentary Pennywise: The Story of IT, an in-depth look at the 1990 miniseries based on Stephen King’s iconic novel, will release November 22 as a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray! Smile makes for a solid enough crowd pleaser heading into the Halloween season.” [Home Video](https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/) Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries IT and its infamous villain live on in the minds of horror fans around the world. [Meagan wrote in her Smile review for BD](https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3733269/smile-review-a-scary-grin-exposes-a-familiar-but-effective-horror-movie/), “There’s a familiarity to the curse’s nature and formula, drawing easy comparisons to several beloved horror films. Parker Finn‘s Smile had an incredible second weekend at the domestic box office, scaring up an additional $19 million from Thursday through Sunday. Those movies include

“Smile” begins when a therapist named Rose, played by Sosie Bacon, meets a patient who claims she is being plagued by an unnerving entity that appears as ...

It seems to follow in the footsteps of “The Ring” (2002), “It Follows” (2014) and “The Babadook” (2014) but doesn’t provide a new take on any of those ideas and themes. It would have benefitted from raising the stakes by being more creative and committed to parts that were meant to be scary, and executed more effective character development. The scene with Rose’s patient smiling caused the audience to laugh, and as time went on, it added nothing to the plot. The cues feel as if the score is trying to tell the audience when they should feel scared, or are simply adding a loud noise to force a scare. The imagery of people smiling is ominously disturbing, but it is underutilized and more perplexing than anything else. After the patient shockingly kills herself while smiling in the session, Rose begins to have the same experiences.

Filmmaker David O. Russell's star-studded comedy Amsterdam had an even more disappointing opening weekend, generating an estimated $6.5 million — about eight ...

It was another week at the top for Smile, which earned an estimated $17.6 million. Russell‘s star-studded comedy Amsterdam had an even more disappointing opening weekend, generating an estimated $6.5 million — about eight percent of the reported $80 million it cost to make — finishing third. The film, starring Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Chris Rock, Taylor Swift, Rami Malek and Robert De Niro, had an equally dismal showing overseas, where it earned an estimated $10 million.

The film with the best opening of September dropped only 22% to retain the top spot, as David O. Russell's star-studded Amsterdam flops.

[Halloween Ends](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/halloween_ends). [Terrifier 2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terrifier_2), which currently boasts a 90% with critics, grabbed the No. [Barbarian](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/barbarian_2022) continued to quietly turn a profit, earning another $2.3 million and bringing its total to over $36 million. Also doing very well in limited release is Todd Field’s [Tár](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tar_2022) with awards favorite Cate Blanchett, taking in $160,000 in just four locations, which represents the fourth best per-theater average of the year. Also opening in limited release is [Till](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/till), the story of Emmett Till and his mother, who fought for justice after his murder. Another 51% fall down to $3.3 million brings its total up to over $38 million. The percentages of a non-awards contender opening in October to less than $8 million reaching $22 million are in the single digits. After reaching nearly $50 million in just 10 days, Smile is outpacing Eli Roth’s family horror film The House With A Clock In Its Walls, which had a $12.6 million second weekend and $44.8 million in the bank. Ten years ago, Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie opened to $11.4 million and ended up with just $35.2 million. That is a remarkable hold for a horror film that puts it in very rare territory amongst films of its ilk that opened to $10 million or higher. This year, the studios offered up a singing crocodile and a comic mystery with an all-star cast deemed not ready for the prime time of awards season. The results speak for themselves, while theaters can at least look forward to releases of Halloween and Black Adam the next two weeks and just…

The horror film Smile took the number one spot at the domestic box office for the second week in a row, beating out newly released films Lyle, ...

Barbarian, $2.18 million Smile, $17.6 million Deadline reports that Smile has the “second-best hold ever for an R-rated horror movie,” behind Get Out in 2017.

This weekend also marked the first time since its release 20 weeks ago that "Top Gun: Maverick" fell out of the box office top 10.

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