Smiley
After discovering an urban legend of a demented serial killer, who has nothing but a carved ';smiley'; on his face, a mentally fragile teen must decide whether she is going insane - or will be the next victim.
4 June 1956, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
12 December 1975, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
21 April 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 July 1988, Long Beach, California, USA
2 November 1986, Santa Barbara, California, USA
5 June 1977, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
December 4, 1991 in Los Angeles County, California, USA
November 25, 2013
Think Candyman for the Twitter generation.
February 12, 2013
Feels like a late-arriving film class homework assignment that the students didn't really care about.
October 11, 2012
Internet chat rooms provide the dubious hook for this generic slasher movie.
February 07, 2013
A thunderously stupid horror movie of slapdash construction and ping-pong tonalities.
October 10, 2012
[A] by-the-numbers slasher pic.
October 11, 2012
This remainder-bin horror movie is impossible to take seriously.
October 09, 2012
Smiley's face, or lack of one, is the single creepy effect in the limited trick bag of first-time writer-director Michael Gallagher, age 24, who otherwise relies, again and again, on false-scare musical shrieks to make audiences jump.
October 11, 2012
This film will not do for the Internet what Psycho did for showers-no more computers have to be smashed because of it.
March 14, 2013
While it's easy to appreciate Gallagher tackling the fruitful subject of Internet urban legends...it's a scratch on the surface. Maybe he's just looking to get the ball rolling, but Smiley is likely to be buried in the bargain bin.
January 14, 2013
A genre failure on every conceivable level...
October 17, 2012
The storytelling gets repetitive, but there is enough here to make Smiley feel fresh and more or less satisfying as a low-key creeper.
February 11, 2013
It's amazing what a killer mask and a smarter than expected ending can do to a mediocrity like Smiley
