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Welcome to Smiling Demon Double Feature! I already reviewed Truth or Dare (2018) Director’s Cut  and now I’ll be reviewing Smile (2022). Warning: SPOILERS . Dr Rose Cotter, a psychiatrist dealing with her own trauma, finds herself haunted by a smiling entity after a terrified patient kills  herself in front of her. As she tries to find out what’s happening to her, she learns that she’s not the first person to go through this and that it always ends the same way - death. The premise isn’t exactly original - It Follows (2014) has a similar concept and Truth or Dare (2018) has a similar demonic look - but the beginning was promising with Laura’s story, her gory suicide, and first glimpse of the titular smile. However, the rest of the movie never fulfils this promise. It was a wise move to add smile-free hallucinations to the entity’s very limited bag of tricks, because apart from Laura and later a nonexistent woman at Rose’s nephew’s birthday party, the demonic smiles that signal the e

Welcome to Smiling Demon Double Feature! The first review is for Truth or Dare  (2018)   Director’s Cut and the second one will be for Smile (2022) . I had no idea that this had supernatural elements and thought it was a slasher with a typical cast of pretty young things getting picked off one by one by a masked killer; instead, I got a typical cast of pretty young things getting picked off one by one by a demonic entity that takes its party games a little too seriously. Warning: SPOILERS . A group of friends travels to Mexico for Spring Break and becomes trapped in a supernatural game of Truth or Dare that won’t stop until they’re all dead. The movie opens with a desperate young woman, Giselle, setting someone on fire at a gas station following instructions only she can hear. She says she has no choice, but as we’ll find out later on, that’s pretty much bullshit. Sure, dying isn’t an appealing option, but by the time you’re setting people on fire, you might want to rethink your life c

I’ve recently watched The Cellar (2022) and decided to write a review. Warning: SPOILERS . A family moves to a weird-looking house with suspicious symbols engraved everywhere. It doesn’t take long for things to get spooky and one of them disappear in the creepy cellar. Even spookier? The exact same thing happened to the family of the previous owner… People really should start being more careful about suspiciously cheap houses. Especially when they look like that. Sure, it’s not as bad as the Crimson Peak manor, but it’s still obviously a place where weird shit happens. And that’s before Ellie and Steven find a strange recording on a gramophone that was hidden in a secret room. Oddly, their parents don’t seem to have a problem with that, nor do they explore the house in search for other secret rooms. However, that’s nothing compared to the sequence in which Keira insists that a terrified Ellie go into the cellar with only a flickering candle and her mobile phone for light to check th