Rating: R
Length: 90 minutes
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Director: Michael J. Gallagher
Smiley is the current generation's
version of Bloody Mary, which is sad because Bloody Mary is awesome
and Smiley sucks. The film opens with a young girl learning the story
behind the legend. If you video chat with someone and type "I
did it for the lulz" three times in a row, Smiley will come out
of nowhere and kill the person on screen. After the young girl hears
it, her chatter does it and she winds up dead.
We then meet Ashley, a college student
who moves in with a girl named Proxy. Proxy is pretty wild and crazy,
while Ashley is mellow and a little shy. Proxy convinces her to come
to a party and introduces her to a bunch of random guys. They tell
her the story of Smiley, which she thinks is lame and just another
urban legend. While chatting online with a group of strangers, they
decide to cycle through different chat sessions and look at different
guys.
They come across a man who flashes
them, and they decide that he's their best bet. Ashley types "I
did it for the lulz" three times, and Smiley appears on screen
before killing the man. Ashley is so freaked out by what happened
that she starts thinking she sees him everywhere on campus. She tries
asking the police for help and talks to her classmates, but they all
think she's playing a prank. Ashley starts getting stalked by the
masked figure, leading her to question what is real around her.
I did it for the lulz is one of the
stupidest things I've come across in recent years. It reminds me of
those stupid acronyms that teens come up with that are supposed to be
oh so cool but really just make them sound stupid. Yolo, I'm looking
in your direction.
Up until the end, "Smiley"
plays as just another teen horror film. The end is what killed it for
me. Have you ever seen a movie and after it ended, you felt really
pissed off? That's what this one did for me. If you don't want to
read any spoilers, you'll want to skip this next section.
*****SPOILER ALERT*****
Ashley comes home and finds a bunch of
people wearing Smiley masks in her bedroom. As they approach her with
knives to kill her, she decides to jump out the window. They see her
dead body on the ground and pull off their masks, revealing them to
be her classmates including her roommate. Even the guy she chatted
with and "killed" is there. It turns out that they were
behind the killings because they wanted to keep the legend going.
They also reveal that there are other kids on other campuses doing
the same thing.
Why the FUCK would you do that??? What
is up with the cattle mentality today? Really, killing people is
cool? Some random guy from your school tells you that all the cool
kids are killing people today, so you think you should do it too? It
doesn't even make sense either! How would they know who people would
talk to so they could get there and kill people?
*****END SPOILER*****
So yes, I didn't enjoy "Smiley,"
and the end made me want to kill someone. It still ticks me off to
even think about it, so I don't think I’ll be watching this one
again.
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