This is particularly painful for us as we recognize Wan’s filmmaking and myth-building talent. Under scrutiny, his films are hyper-conservative ideological travesties cloaked in wonderfully entertaining, well-crafted, scares. Sadly, we also ask you to prepare yourselves to be disillusioned with Wan and the Conjuring-verse. This is released as a double episode with The Conjuring 2, and so listening to that first will be helpful. The Conjuring 3, so much conjuring! Please go back and listen to our episodes on the first two Conjuring films if you haven’t already. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It (Chaves 2021) We would very much appreciate any contributions to help offset the cost of producing the podcast. Free, cross-platform, open source, and awesome. TOPIC INDEX – TOPIC INDEX – Freaky (Landon 2020) (times are approximate)ġ9:00 – why did we not enjoy this nihistic film?Ĥ5:00 – conspiracy theories and gaslightingĥ2:00 – women’s voices disregarded especially regarding abuseġ:06:00 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social ResponsibilityĮdited and processed with Audacity. There is lots more of our podcast! Please listen, review, subscribe, and tell your friends. So while there were real nuggets of gold here, they were buried in a pretty large pile of crap. We extensively cover multiple other options for the film, especially the ending. It does break from so many films in that religion is not the savior.
Unfortunately, the film perpetuates some super toxic ideas about mental health and emotional trauma. Where The Babadook (Kent 2014) meets Fallen (Hoblit 1998), Smile steps in to push the sub-genre of physical manifestation and transmission of horror forward. It is a very rare example of using jump scares effectively and in support of a larger concept to produce fear.
Led by an exemplary performance by Sosie Bacon, Smile (Finn 2022) is a well constructed horror film.
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