Can I ask why in popular culture it is popular to depict children's birthday parties as nightmares for adults to go to?

You're the perfect case. You are a childless person. Is it terrible? Am I inflicting psychic damage on people? Should I only invite people of children? Well, let me get out my gardening shears real quick.

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another bald movie pulp edition, uh, commissioned podcast edition.

This time we've got a return commissioner, Stacy Myers. You might recall her as commissioning

the back-to-back, frightful spooky season commissions last year of Halloween one and two.

Uh, she was back for more horror.

And this time, I guess, early summer edition.

She wanted us to take a look at the 22 horror movie Smile, directed by Parker

Finn and starring Sozy Bacon.

I had seen this movie before because I have been in a habit in the last few years of watching every...

I try to watch every new horror movie that comes out that gets like buzz every October.

And this was one of them.

And I thought this was...

This kind of stood out as being a scary movie that works

on more than one level more than way way to hook you and a really kind of fresh concept on

I don't know what you call this a possession a haunting some sort of demon type activity happening.

Curious to see what you thought before we get to Stacy's thoughts.

Alright, well, this is my first time seeing this movie.

I remember seeing the trailer. It's a very affecting trailer because the title of it is plastered all over that trailer.

You know, it's people smiling in weird ways.

It's people acting creepy with a big, big old grin.

See, it had that really strong hook to it and I just never got around to seeing it.

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