A seemingly creative horror flick is about to hit theaters.. It’s not just another ghost story..
The film is simply described as this: A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone.
From what we are hearing, the movie is so much more.. A ghost story not from the eyes of the haunted.. but instead the haunter..
A creative shift and necessary change in the sub-genre..
All eyes on the box office–Rotten Tomatoes is showcasing largely positive reviews.
The trailer here:
AP interviews Soderergh..: To a certain degree, the audience is a weather system. Luckily because of the way I began, I’m the cockroach of this industry. I can survive any version of it.
No, really.. We’ve been seeing this for quite some time now. Terrifier 3 is coming out in theaters, and with the run up to the film, a lot of reviews have been talking about how revolting the movie is they’ve been talking about the amount of gore and for native bonus.
Now, websites and Facebook pages are discussing actively. How many people vomit during the film?
It’s really difficult to prove a negative, so it’s tough to say unless we’re there, whether people really have walked out in disgust, it’s also very difficult to say what the puke count is unless we’re literally in the audience watching people regurgitate while the movie’s playing.
But it certainly brilliant marketing.
A lot of movies have done this before Netflix films with headlines of people saying it’s the scariest film they’ve ever seen or other headlines saying people were so disturbed.
They walked out of theaters. Now, we’re able to find out that people are actively vomiting during the film, perhaps from a flu, the stomach virus, or from the blood and gore in the terrifier..
Tough to say, I guess unless you vomit from the film, you may never know.
Studio execs grinning at the chance for profits from a Smile sequel
Smile grossed around $217 million worldwide on a $17 million budget.
Planning went underwater quickly for a sequel while the iron was still hot. Deadline reported the sequel will be hitting theaters as soon as next year in 2024.
“Paramount has set Oct. 18, 2024 for the next Smile movie.”
Deadline also adds that original Smile director “Parker Finn is coming back to helm Smile 2.”
While smile may make studio executives grinning from ear to ear at potential profits in 2024, the movie itself was one of the better. Additionally, the roll out of the film that included people creepily posing in baseball games and just smiling for nine innings really helped get the word out in an impressive way.
Can they muster up a entrance into the box office fray as successful as their first go around?
We have been covering the box office in movies for a long time, and for decades, it seems that most movie with critics and experts shut down horror before it gets the chance. And each and every time, it seems hard wins at the box office ..
 This weekend is no different, Blumhouse has another hit with Insidious the Red Door .. Indiana Jones can’t keep up even with Harrison Ford in CGI..
honestly, a viewing of the movie at a theater was fun. Good jump scares, a clumsy, but decent enough storage to enjoy. But for some reason and ending that had a strange emotional effect, not sure if I can recall having a good crying session at the end of a horror but this did it for me ..
Schoenbrun’s feature takes place almost entirely in the home of its young lead as well, but when it does head outside, it never shows another human being in its tableaus of big-box stores and multilane roads. Similarly, Skinamarink pushes its few human characters to the corners of the frame (when it shows them at all), shooting them from behind or in fragments. The house is the point, this bustling domestic place turned into an eerie limbo. Those unhurried shots of the upstairs hallway, the craggy Lego landscapes across a stretch of carpet, and a dining-room chair mysteriously attached to the ceiling all recall, more than anything, the liminal-spaces aesthetic that sprang out of message boards like 4Chan and Reddit a few years ago and has since spread across the larger internet.
The marketing for the movie was brilliant, with smiling people gracing baseball games and public locations for the past two weeks. Nice move!
But what few are talking about with this is the ‘smile’ concept. It is based on a short horror film.. but it also seems to borrow a lot of the concept of IT FOLLOWS. In that movie, what followed was a sexually transmitted disease and bad reputation. In this film, it is mental illness. We cloud it and hide it with a smile.
I am not sure if the film makers went for a deeper meaning than what we got, but it sure felt like something much more meaningful was hiding under the surface.
SMILE did great this weekend .. in the United States Box office: $22 mil.. Friday alone fetched in $8.2 mil..
Landing the top offshore debut for the studios was Paramount’s Smile with $14.5M from 58 markets, and $36.5M globally. The horror audience grinned in all areas with good word of mouth for the Parker Finn-directed movie that was also tops domestically.
Reinforcing that audiences want to go back to the cinema for something fresh, on a like-for-like basis, the offshore start on Smile is 18% above Truth or Dare, 55% ahead of Hereditary and on par with The Black Phone. Smile, whose first footage intrigued exhibition at CineEurope earlier this year, was led by the UK with $2M from 520 locations at No. 2. France was also a No. 2 debut with $1.4M from 303 sites. In horror-leaning Mexico, the movie scored a No. 1 start of $1.1M from 855 locations. Rounding out the Top 5 were Germany ($1M from 316) and Australia ($800K from 206)
We saw the movie this weekend as well. Amazing cinematic effects–the upside down camera angles.. the dreadful music.. the dark hallways that did NOT have something jump out, and the scenes where something did..
It was all effective.
However there were some less than great things. It felt like a horror movie that turned into a thriller and then back into a horror again, with a twist ending that went right back to the ending that no one seemed to want..
We ended up liking the thriller angle of the film more than the horror. But boy. those jump scares. We thought someone walking down the aisle to go to the bathroom in the theater was going to fall backwards–they chose the scene that featured the jumpiest of the jump scares to walk down the dark steps..
The marketing for the movie was brilliant, with smiling people gracing baseball games and public locations for the past two weeks. Nice move!
But what few are talking about with this is the ‘smile’ concept. It is based on a short horror film.. but it also seems to borrow a lot of the concept of IT FOLLOWS. In that movie, what followed was a sexually transmitted disease and bad reputation. In this film, it is mental illness. We cloud it and hide it with a smile.
I am not sure if the film makers went for a deeper meaning than what we got, but it sure felt like something much more meaningful was hiding under the surface.
Homophobia is the excuse for the film doing poorly..
More from the DEADLINE article:
“Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore, etc, straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros. And that’s disappointing but it is what it is,” he continued.
The comedian stands by the movie and encouraged “everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo” to go watch Bros.
Marc Zammit and Craif Hindle’s new WITCH movie poster and trailer..
“Set in Dawnbrook, England in 1575, William must prove the innocence of his wife Twyla, who stands accused of being a witch.
William must hunt down the real witch if Twyla is to be spared, but unearthly events make them both look doomed.”
Skylark Vision is presenting WITCH, a production by Marc Zammit, Craig Hindle, Tony Zammit, and David Baboulene..
The film, written and directed by Craig Hindle and Marc Zammit, can be described a horror, thriller, and medieval fantasy.. It was filmed in Europe, primary Hungary.
Marc Zammit is an Award-winning director after only three years. He recently completed his Feature Film “Homeless Ashes”, which was his directorial debut. In addition to directing the film, he also served as its executive producer & acted in the leading role. Prior to the filming of Homeless Ashes, he very rigorously and successfully raised the total funds via crowdfunding.
Others are saying this online and we agree: For a remake of such a high profile horror FIRESTARTER, it’s bizarre that no one knows it’s coming out..
The marketing for the new FIRESTARTER Stephen King movie coming out next week has been next to zero .. nothing online.. no targeted ads on social media.
Few commercials… no TV trailers.. What gives?
A new John Carpenter score too? But no word of mouth bragging that up?
And a horror movie debut on FRIDAY THE 13TH couldn’t go wrong, right? Unless no one knows it’s premiering..
Of course maybe it will be just THAT BAD of a movie..?
If someone were to ask the HORROR REPORTER, a Quiet Place II, The Vigil, Fear Street, and Midnight Mass may be the picks we’d made..
Also making the list is BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR.. If you want to see a hardcore strange odd and memorable movie sultry sex scene, go to episode 4 around 35 minutes in and wince ..
