If you loved Smile, try The Pale Blue Eye
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the dread, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Horror / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to Smile, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Pale Blue Eye is
West Point, 1830, a cadet's body sways. A heart cut out, a reluctant detective, a young Edgar Allan Poe. Scott Cooper revisits darkness through a literary lens.

