“Smile”: on which streaming platform can the horror movie be seen?

“Historically, the horror genre has always been very inclined to show the fears or anxieties of society and of different groups,” says Parker Finn, director of “Smile”, a film that has aroused great curiosity in the audience.

The film, which was released on September 29 in Latin American countries and on September 30 in the US, deftly pairs a story in which its protagonist, Sosie Bacon, faces a diabolical curse while doing facing his mental problems derived from a childhood trauma.

“I wanted to create something that was intensely psychological, with chilling moments and that followed a character through a whole mental nightmare journey,” explained this new director, who now sees how his first film with a considerable budget has become one of the greats. Paramount Pictures bets on the horror genre for the last three months of the year.

What is the movie about?

The plot of “Smile” is about Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon), who finds the life she had created crumbling and reviving childhood fears after witnessing the suicide of one of her patients.

Sosie Bacon, daughter of actor Kevin Bacon and actress -among other productions- of the successful miniseries “Mare of Easttown”, plays Rose in a very intimate role.

“Rose Cotter is a woman who experiences trauma and is forced to fight against it and survive, although many times she does not understand what is happening to her or understand why society does not see things the same way she does,” Bacon described.

It is a frenetic story in which Finn plays at subjecting the viewer to not being able to discern what is happening in reality and what comes from the inner world of Rose Cotter or from the tricks that her brain plays on her.

A duality that reaches most of the characters in this fiction, who doubt the word of the doctor while they witness how a series of macabre events take place.

“I wrote the script during the pandemic and I hope that fear can come through, that feeling of the unknown, mixed feelings or isolation,” reveals Finn, who believes that the recent media attention to mental health problems can do viewers “better understand” the plot.

What does the smile mean?

The title of the film, “Smile” (smile, in Spanish), refers to the gesture that works as the engine of the story and that serves at times as a ‘macguffin’, a plot excuse for the plot to move forward.

Broadly speaking, in this film, the smile is the devil’s face that hides a threat and reveals that something very dangerous is coming later.

“Smiling is almost always associated with happiness or being friendly, but it can also serve to mask your true feelings towards the outside world,” Finn slipped.

The rest of the cast by this filmmaker is made up of Jessie T. Usher (“Independence Day: Resurgence”), Kyle Gallner (“American Sniper”), Robin Weigert (“Big Little Lies”), Caitlin Stasey (“All I Need”) , Kal Penn (“Epic Movie”) and Rob Morgan (“Don’t Look Up”).

In fact, Usher and Gallner themselves remarked that their mission in “Smile” has focused on their characters “transforming throughout the film” and thus contributing to the public putting themselves “in the shoes of the protagonists and felt his fears as his own”.

Will it be able to be seen in streaming?

“Smile” is a production of Paramount Pictures, a company that has its own streaming platform, available in Latin America from March 2022: Paramount +. As Decider explains, the platform has as part of its appeal the premiere of its streaming productions in the US between 30 and 45 days after its passage through theaters, so it is estimated that “Smile” would reach its catalog of video ‘on demand’ in November of this year, although it is not known if this will be the case in the South American region.

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