Paramount Pictures has released the first official trailer for its upcoming horror filmSmile. Audiences witnessed a short-lived teaser for the new film in theaters as a component of the trailer packages that showed ahead of Joseph Kosinski’sTop Gun: Maverickand David Cronenberg’sCrimes of the Future, but the new official look reveals even more unsettling horrors encased in the hair-raising mystery.
Paramount’sSmilecenters around a psychiatrist whose mind begins to unravel after witnessing a traumatic event involving one of her patients. Unexplainable and horrid phenomena start to occur, prompting the embattled psychiatrist to believe that something supernatural may be at play. Like a plague, the unsettling wicked entity haunts her at every single turn, forging a devastating path until paranoia and fear torment her shaken mind.
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The upcoming horror film will star Sosie Bacon as Rose Cotter, the distressed psychiatrist looking to end the cruel torture harassing and taunting her mind. Alongside Bacon, the brand-new film will also featureAmazon Prime’sThe Boysstar Jesse T. Usher, Rob Morgan, Kal Penn, Kyle Gallner, and Caitlin Stasey. The trailer opens with a chilling vocal melody and presents an ominous question one wouldn’t expect, atop frightful images of various people brandishing nightmarish smiles.
The footage is an unrelenting dive into the torment consuming Bacon’s character, whose patient indicated that she was seeing something no one else could see. The unseeable entity not only viciously murdered the rattled patient, but nineteen others as well in a mystery that the psychiatrist must solve before the evil extinguishes her own life. The premise feels somewhat likeDavid Robert Mitchell’sIt Follows, which also dealt with an invisible supernatural presence murdering only those who could see it. It’ll be interesting to see the directionSmiletakes to forge a path different from the 2014 horror film.
Smilecomes from first-time feature director Parker Finn, who also penned the script for the upcoming horror film. The film is an adaptation of Finn’s 2020 short filmLaura Hasn’t Slept, which Paramount agreed to turn into a theatrical feature after its successful premiere at the SXSW 2020 Film Festival.The short horror moviecenters around a young woman trying to liberate herself from a recurring nightmare, prompting her to seek help from a psychiatrist to confront her terror. The film won the Special Jury Recognition Prize and now will look to tell an even bigger story on a larger stage.
The upcoming film’s September release will lead nicely intothe Halloween season, providing enough fright for audiences looking for a horrific experience. One can assume Finn’s success withLaura Hasn’t Sleptwill carry over into the brand-new film, but the addition of more elements to complete the story may rob the film of its established strength. Finn may elevate the story with more resources and support, but only time will tell if his vision comes to fruition.
