The Ghoulish Plot: Rose is a therapist treating a woman who recently saw somebody commit suicide, and she says an entity has been following and tormenting her ever since. Suddenly she begins to panic, and then shockingly becomes calm, smiles in a disturbing way, and kills herself in front of Rose.

The next day, Rose begins to see people in her life who smile at her in the same way and inform her that she will soon suffer the same fate. Rose begins to investigate further and sees a trail of suicides in which witnesses go on to kill themselves in gruesome ways…except for one person who committed a heinous murder and survived.

Rose tries to find a way to escape her fate while being haunted by people who smile like Evangelical Christians who are actively telling you you’re gonna burn in hell for not voting for Trump. As she approached the final moments she thinks she may have found a way to face and defeat her fate.

The Scariest Part: This whole movie is a huge and total bummer. Not to spoil anything, but the ending is so goddamn cynical that it left a bad taste in my mouth. I also think this is symptomatic of what horror movies often reflect in society: the film was written and moving towards production in the tail end of a pretty awful and inescapable political cycle in America where we were all watching a bunch of grinning jackals gleefully abuse power to take away people’s freedoms under the name of moral superiority and it felt like there was nothing we could do. It’s an effective horror movie but depressing as hell.

Spookiness Factor: every Midwest person has had an awful person smile in your face as they say the cruelest, most awful shit you’ve ever heard while you can just tell they don’t see anything wrong with it. That smile is ultra-creepy.

Rating: 7 out of 10 York Peppermint Patties