Now the Paramount horror film that infected pop culture with eerie delight is coming home on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 13. A couple of days before the September 30, 2022 release, actors from the film showed up at various baseball games, sitting behind home plate dead still and smiling while staring into the camera, unmoving despite fans in the audience being understandably concerned, while wearing Smile shirts. The release is coming with a handful of special features, which includes a commentary from director Parker Finn, the short film that inspired Smile, titled Laura Hasn’t Slept, and two featurettes titled "Something's Wrong with Rose: Making Smile" and "Flies on the Wall: Inside the Score".

Rose and Joel visit Talley in jail, where he claims the only way to escape the curse is to kill someone in front of a witness, and do it in a brutal fashion to cause major psychological trauma, which the entity 'feeds' off of.This overwhelms Rose already fractured sanity, and the aforementioned entity confronts the now despairing Rose, overwhelms and forces itself inside her body. For those who wanted to catch some of the biggest movies of Fall 2021 but never got around to going to the theaters, the first month of 2022 is going to be a busy month. Madeline Northcott, who suggests that Rose's problems stem from her childhood, in which she witnessed the overdose death of her abusive and mentally ill mother.

The title drop had to be altered to avoid causing seizures after discovering that the original version failed the Harding test, meaning that it could trigger photosensitive people. He spent most of his childhood watching Scooby-Doo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Batman, and Justice League. The filmmaker stated that while additional installments may explore the backstory of the entity, he would like to keep its mysterious nature intact.However, the best part was it deserved all the praise and box office success because it was just an endlessly entertaining film. The site's critical consensus reads, "Deeply creepy visuals and a standout Sosie Bacon further elevate Smile 's unsettling exploration of trauma, adding up to the rare feature that satisfyingly expands on a short.

Smile will also be available in a digital two-movie collection with the Omari Hardwick starring thriller Spell on that same date. It’s being released exclusively in cinemas and there is no streaming release date as of yet, so the big screen is the only place to be.The festival that year was one of the first events to be shut down due to the spread of COVID-19, but Finn was still able to make a deal with Paramount to make Smile based on the strength of that short. Rose drives to her hospital with a knife and murders Carl, but it is revealed to be a hallucination. Scoring 'Smile,' Sans Strings or Synths: How the Composer Made a Horror Hit Even Creepier With an Unusual Instrument". Suddenly, she realizes everything that happened from the moment she entered the old house was a hallucination. The sparseness of the hospital, the stark bare trees against skyline, cat fur, the dilapidated cabin, dead leaves etc etc – everything is keen with tight edges.