Fresh
The storytelling gets repetitive, but there is enough here to make Smiley feel fresh and more or less satisfying as a low-key creeper.
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
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Smiley
Overview
After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.
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17%
Tomatometer
Rotten
This remainder-bin horror movie is impossible to take seriously.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
Internet chat rooms provide the dubious hook for this generic slasher movie.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
This film will not do for the Internet what Psycho did for showers-no more computers have to be smashed because of it.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Rotten
[A] by-the-numbers slasher pic.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
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