Smile
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray
Smile impresses with its viral campaign, J-horror vibes, and palpable scares. Although it fumbles at the end, it's a confident entry for genre fans.
Smile's 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD presentation is outstanding, outclassing the Blu-ray. Shot digitally using Arri Alexa 65 cameras at a resolution of 6.5K, it delivers wonderful visuals with a haunting atmosphere and muted color palette.
The superb Dolby Atmos track creates an immersive and creepy soundscape with percussive score that coos, pops, howls, and buzzes all around. It offers excellent audio immersion with spacious sound effects and boisterous levels, providing a truly terrifying viewing experience.
The UHD release of Smile offers a standard collection of supplements, including an audio commentary and 61 minutes of extras, but lacks a Blu-ray copy. A digital copy code is provided, along with the original short film that inspired the feature-length movie.
Grim and unsettling, Smile is a horror movie that doesn't aim to please. It draws on the familiar tropes of the genre, but eschews gimmicks in favor of a raw, unsettling atmosphere.
Director: Parker Finn
Actors: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner
Plot: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, a psychiatrist becomes increasingly convinced she is being threatened by an uncanny entity.
Disc Release Date: 13 December 2022
all scores
- Video90
- Audio90
Smile was shot digitally using Arri Alexa 65 cameras, at a resolution of 6.5K producing a 4K DI from which this UHD is sourced....
The Dolby Atmos track creates a wonderfully creepy atmosphere, thanks mainly to the percussive and disorientating score, which coos, pops, howls, and buzzes above, below, and all around. It also has one...
- Extra80
- Movie60
All on the UHD...
Much like any photo taken of myself!...
- Total70
Smile is writer/director Parker Finn’s first studio budgeted feature, and he is out of the gate running; with a brilliant viral advertising campaign, a delicious idea, trappings of J-horror, a palpable...
- Video90
- Audio90
.It's easy to see that Smile's 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD presentation outclasses the companion and concurrently released Blu-ray by a fairly wide margin. As noted in the review of that disc, the Blu-ray offers...
The Dolby Atmos soundtrack offers excellent audio immersion. While discrete effects are not commonplace, there is some obvious overhead engagement when the moment calls for such audio help. Clarity and...
- Extra50
- Movie60
This UHD release of Smile includes a fairly typical variety of supplements, headlined by an audio commentary track. No Blu-ray copy is included. A digital copy code is included with purchase. This release...
Though its name may imply otherwise (and if the creepy grin on the poster art isn't any indication), Smile is not a movie designed to make its audience happy. This is a grim picture, based on the 2019...
- Total80
Smile doesn't rewrite the genre rulebook, but it's a confident, high energy, and watchable entry that should satisfy longtime genre fans looking for something that's familiar and easily digestible, Paramount's...
- Video80
- Audio90
Smile delivers a wonderful looking 2160p UHD 4K image with Dolby Vision that keeps the haunting atmosphere in tip-top shape.The color palette has a somewhat muted tone that has its visuals look like they're...
This release comes with a brilliant Dolby Atmos track that brings an immersive and scary rumble to the viewing experience. Sounds effects are spacious and offer up a ton of boisterous levels. Those creepy...
- Extra60
- Movie70
There are about 61 minutes of extras included here that cover deleted scenes, cast and crew interviews, and even the original short film that inspired this feature-length movie.Audio Commentary - Director...
Horror films typically rely on some sort of gimmick to stick their underlying tone and message through the usual tropes of horror. This can range from evil spirits, zombies, aliens, possession, evil monkeys,...
- Total80
Smile is a wonderfully scary film that fumbles the ball at the endzone. There are plenty of things to enjoy about Smile with its story, characters, and horror, but it loses its way when it tries to throw...