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Director Tim Hunter’s true story inspired horror Smiley Face Killers has just been released, and I’ve always found the true crimes interesting, so I decided to check it out. What I found wasn’t good. The synopsis reads as followed: “a handsome young soccer player Jake Graham who believes he is going insane, unable to shake the feeling of being stalked by something, by someone.” The film takes its inspiration from a series of mysterious deaths linked by the smiley face graffiti found near the crime scenes. The victims are all killed by mysteriously being drowned and have been deemed nonaccidental. Unfortunately, the movie treats the killings as a secondary theme with Jake’s depression and body exploitation at the forefront. The majority of the movie is just watching Ronen Rubinstein go from scene to scene shedding his clothes and acting moody as hell. Sure, Ronen Rubinstein is a handsome guy but I was there to watch a horror movie, not a
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Crispin Glover (“American Gods”), who recently appeared as the hooded figure in Smiley Face Killers has signed on to star as a series regular in HBO Max’s psychological thriller series “Red Bird Lane.” The series, directed by “Hannibal’s” David Slade, and “follows eight strangers who arrive at an isolated house, all for different reasons. Upon their mysterious and coincidental arrival, the strangers realize that something sinister and terrifying awaits them. Glover will play Jonah, a bad man who arrives at the mysterious house in the center of the thriller for money.” Deadline is reporting that the cast also includes James Urbaniak, Jamie Clayton, Rya Kihlstedt, Susan Sarandon, Kiersey Clemons, and Grantham Coleman as recurring characters with Damon Dayoub making a cameo. Sara Gran (“Southland”) wrote the script.
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Director Tim Hunter’s true story inspired horror Smiley Face Killers has just been released, and I’ve always found the true crimes interesting, so I decided to check it out. What I found wasn’t good. The synopsis reads as followed: “a handsome young soccer player Jake Graham who believes he is going insane, unable to shake the feeling of being stalked by something, by someone.” The film takes its inspiration from a series of mysterious deaths linked by the smiley face graffiti found near the crime scenes. The victims are all killed by mysteriously being drowned and have been deemed nonaccidental. Unfortunately, the movie treats the killings as a secondary theme with Jake’s depression and body exploitation at the forefront. The majority of the movie is just watching Ronen Rubinstein go from scene to scene shedding his clothes and acting moody as hell. Sure, Ronen Rubinstein is a handsome guy but I was there to watch a horror movie, not a
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HBO MaxNewsStreaming TVThriller
Crispin Glover (“American Gods”), who recently appeared as the hooded figure in Smiley Face Killers has signed on to star as a series regular in HBO Max’s psychological thriller series “Red Bird Lane.” The series, directed by “Hannibal’s” David Slade, and “follows eight strangers who arrive at an isolated house, all for different reasons. Upon their mysterious and coincidental arrival, the strangers realize that something sinister and terrifying awaits them. Glover will play Jonah, a bad man who arrives at the mysterious house in the center of the thriller for money.” Deadline is reporting that the cast also includes James Urbaniak, Jamie Clayton, Rya Kihlstedt, Susan Sarandon, Kiersey Clemons, and Grantham Coleman as recurring characters with Damon Dayoub making a cameo. Sara Gran (“Southland”) wrote the script.
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