Ashley goes to her new college while getting over the death of her mother. She meets some new people there including Binder ('Shane Dawson') while at a party and she learns about an urban legend of an online killer that has the nickname "Smiley" who can only be seen on the web and he apparently kills people after they type in "I did it for the lulz" three times. Soon after going to the party Ashley and her flatmate Proxy go online to test it out, with horrific results. She be... (Full plot summary below)
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Ashley goes to her new college while getting over the death of her mother. She meets some new people there including Binder ('Shane Dawson') while at a party and she learns about an urban legend of an online killer that has the nickname "Smiley" who can only be seen on the web and he apparently kills people after they type in "I did it for the lulz" three times. Soon after going to the party Ashley and her flatmate Proxy go online to test it out, with horrific results. She becomes paranoid and she starts to think she sees Smiley all over the place and feels that he may be chasing her, but how can that be if he is not real? Have they somehow released him from the internet?
Leave your thoughts about Smiley.
| The PlaylistMark ZhuravskyWhile it's easy to appreciate Gallagher tackling the fruitful subject of Internet urban legends...it's a scratch on the surface. Maybe he's just looking to get the ball rolling, but Smiley is likely to be buried in the bargain bin. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoIt's nice to see that Gallagher may be trying to tap into something that will talk specifically to his generation but at the same time he's not willing to cop out to all the current horror trends in making his film. |
| Shockya.comBrent SimonA thunderously stupid horror movie of slapdash construction and ping-pong tonalities. |
| Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenA surprisingly effective low-budget horror film that takes as its true villain the casual cynicism and nihilistic misanthropy that so often go along with online culture. |
| Total FilmRosie FletcherThink Candyman for the Twitter generation. |
| Big HollywoodChristian TotoIt's amazing what a killer mask and a smarter than expected ending can do to a mediocrity like Smiley |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.A genre failure on every conceivable level... |
| Television Without PityEthan AlterSmiley the boogeyman may or may not be a joke, but Smiley the movie definitely is. |
| The PlaylistMark ZhuravsyIt's worth saying that the final moments of Smiley are a grade above the by-the-numbers film that unfolded prior, but it's too little too late. |
| AV ClubScott TobiasGallagher briefly threatens to turn Smiley into something closer to the hallucinatory psychological horror of "Repulsion," but he retreats to the more conventional twists and jump-scares expected of bottom-of-the-barrel slasher films like this one. This film will not do for the Internet what "Psycho" did for showers - no more computers have to be smashed because of it. |
