Smiley Face Killers (2020)
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Duration: 96 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Tim Hunter
Stars: Ronen Rubinstein, Mia Serafino and Crispin Glover
IMDb score:
3,7 (1.680)
Releasedate: 29 October 2020
Smiley Face Killers plot
"They only have eyes for you."
Jake Graham is a handsome young footballer who thinks he is going crazy. He is unable to shake off the feeling that he is being stalked by someone somewhere. His friends and everyone around him believe he is just fearful and prone to paranoia, but Jake is actually being followed by a small group of serial killers led by a disfigured and terrifying "guru".
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Reviews & comments
AniSter
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- 2338 messages
- 1884 votes
Extremely slow and boring first three quarters of the film. Rubenstein portrays such an annoying character that after fifteen minutes you wish the Smiley Killers would take him away very quickly. The story behind this film, based on true events, could have been interesting, but not as it is depicted in this hour and a half. No, I cannot recommend this film.
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3576 votes
When a director like Tim Hunter (River's Edge) and a writer Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) work together, you expect fireworks. The result, however, is a wet ground flower. They based their film on a theory by two detectives who stated that young men who were found dead in the water were not drowned but murdered. That could lend itself perfectly to a suspenseful film, but Hunter and Ellis do the opposite, their film is deadly boring. In the first hour, main character Jake (who shows off his trained body for most of the film) is stalked by a parked van and receives mysterious text messages about water. That first hour is full of endless whining and the film does not move forward. Only the last ten minutes are quite brutal, but that spectacular finale comes much too late; as a viewer you have already fallen asleep. Or you are wondering why on earth they made Cripsin Glover unrecognizable for a textless supporting role.
1.5 stars.
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Aapje81
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- 2227 messages
- 5201 votes
Smiley Face Killers caught my interest because the screenplay was written by Bret Easton Ellis. I have read all his books with pleasure, but so far Ellis is less fortunate as a screenwriter. His erotic thriller The Canyons (Film, 2013) was on the boring side but still enjoyable. ThisSmiley Face Killers has little substance in the figurative sense. The opening scene was, in my opinion, too disgusting for words and added nothing to the course of the film. After that we get a film that in terms of style is somewhere between the coming of age films of Gus van Sant and the aforementioned The Canyons.
The images are gray, blurry and slow. The atmosphere of an average Bret Easton Ellis book is well captured, but what can work well in a novel fails completely on film. The characters are cardboard and empty. It all doesn't come across well and drags along like a constipated snail. The occasionally excessive violence may be fun for fans, but is not much more than an empty shell because hardly any relevant context is provided.
Still, it wasn't all bad. The music does create a pleasant atmosphere and the actress Mia Serafino, unknown to me, played a creditable supporting role. Furthermore, it is striking that you can tell from everything that Bret Easton Ellis wrote the screenplay, but that this film, in contrast to his novels, is not very captivating.
The bottom line is that this is a very unsympathetic and long-winded film that more than deserves all the negative reviews.
Very moderate.
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