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Paramount Pictures Turns Grins Grim with Parker Finn’s Gruesome ‘Smile’

Written by GreenSlate | Oct 24, 2022 1:39:38 PM

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.

 

Directed by:
Parker Finn

 

Writing credits:
Parker Finn (screenplay by)

 

Produced by:
Marty Bowen - producer
Adam Fishbach - executive producer
Wyck Godfrey - producer
Isaac Klausner - producer
Robert Salerno - producer

 

Starring:
Sosie Bacon
Jessie T. Usher
Kyle Gallner
Robin Weigert
Caitlin Stasey
with Kal Penn
and Rob Morgan

 

In the Media:

“A relentlessly somber, precision-tooled picture whose frights only reinforce the wit of its premise, “Smile” turns our most recognizable sign of pleasure into a terrifying rictus of pain.” 

- Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

Watch the trailer here.