2012 · horror · slasher
Smiley
Directed by Michael J. Gallagher1h 35m2012
After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.
Our read: Smiley (2012) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded horror · slasher entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / slasher, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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