By Patrick Cremona

Published: Thursday, 29 September 2022 at 12:00 am


As we head into October and the Halloween season, we can expect to see more and more new horror flicks hitting the big screen – and one of the first to arrive is Smile, the feature debut of director Parker Finn.

The film is adapted from Finn’s own short film Laura Hasn’t Slept, and follows Rose, a psychiatric doctor whose life becomes a waking nightmare after she witnesses a traumatic incident that puts her own life in danger.

It all leads to a frightening ending that sees Rose forced to confront her own past – with many jump scares along the way.

Read on to have the Smile ending explained – and be warned, full spoilers follow.

Smile ending explained 

When she witnesses a patient kill herself right in front of her eyes – complete with a deeply creepy smile – Rose (Sosie Bacon) begins to find that the terror the patient had previously described has now been passed on to her.

Noting that the patient had previously witnessed a similar suicide, she realises that unless she acts quickly, she is bound to meet the same grisly fate – and so embarks on an investigation to find the original source of the deeply uneasy feeling that has come over her.

As she investigates, she seeks the help of former boyfriend Joel (Kyle Gallner), a policeman who is initially reluctant to help, and the pair discover that there is a chain of suicides that can be traced back quite far.

Only one person appears to have avoided killing themselves after being caught up in the chain: a man named Robert Talley, who is now imprisoned after he killed his business partner.