Smile

Rose (Sosie Bacon) works as a Resident Therapist at a Psychiatric Hospital. Trauma from her childhood has lead her to become a workaholic: pulling enormous shifts perhaps to try and 'fix the world'.

Going out of the door after one of these she turns around to pick up one last call: a young woman admitted as an emergency who is screaming about being stalked by some kind of entity that is going to kill her.

No good will come of this.

CW: suicide, self-harm, mutilation, jump scares

"It looks like people"

Parker Finn's psychological horror walks the same road as many 'curse' horrors: you crossed paths with something ineffable going about its grisly business and now it is coming for you next.

In this case a demon-like entity that causes people to grin unnervingly while they end their lives in front of a witness and then stalks them to continue the chain. It's very reminiscent of "It Follows" but with the entity existing entirely in the mind of the new chosen victim, tormenting them.

But for Sosie Bacon's great performance this could have been rather mediocre/cheap and that's the pattern generally. A sparse spooky score, done well. Jump scares from things like sudden phone rings and smash cuts, but done well. Familiar faces actually being the entity unexpectedly, but used economically.

It's lots of very common horror elements assembled with care and good judgement into a satisfying experience 7/10 recommended.