Smile
Starring Harriet MacMasters-Green, Armand Assante, Antonio Cupo, Robert Capelli
Directed by Francesco Gasperoni
Clarissa (Harriet MacMasters-Green) and her friends are taking a trip in Morocco to head to the Atlas Mountains, which are supposedly haunted. She is a professional photographer and her camera gets stolen by a gypsy, so she goes to town to buy a new camera, and comes upon a small store run by Tollinger (Armand Assante), who gives her a camera free of charge.
She starts taking pictures of her friends and soon discovers the truth from a mysterious hunter in the woods - the camera is evil, and whoever she takes a picture of ends up dying. Soon her friends begin dying one-by-one, and it's to Clarissa to discover the magic behind the camera and how to stop it before it kills them all.
I feel like I've heard this concept before. Seriously, I know I've heard of stories where a camera steals a person's soul - I believe it's an Asian belief.
In any event, this was a strange movie. The cinematography was off, and it gave the film an eerie grainy-like feel, which I'm not sure the director was aiming for - it seemed like a poor camera.
The actors were horrible, of course, but it seemed like their voices were dubbed, like you would see in a foreign film. Yet as I watched their lips move, it matched with what they were saying, which either signifies that a) their voices are naturally that horrible or b) the sound people had no clue what they were doing. I think it's a mixture of both.
The only semi nice thing this film had to offer was the scenery of Morocco, but that's only for a small part of the film, and the rest takes place in the supposed mountains, which look like someone's backyard.
My Rating: D+
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