IN 2020, PARKER FINN DEBUTED HIS SECOND short, "Laura Hasn't Slept", about a young woman who seeks the help of a therapist after suffering a series of nightmares. Not only did it scoop the Special Jury Recognition Prize at the South By Southwest film festival, but the word got out that this was something special. "It just started spreading around town like wildfire," Finn tells Red Alert. "And then people started reaching out..."
Smile is not only Parker Finn's first studio film, but his first ever feature, such was Paramount's trust in this promising up-and-comer. And while Smile isn't exactly a big-budget, a full-length remake of "Laura Hasn't Slept", it's certainly a riff on it.
"While I'd been in post[-production] I'd had this idea for a much bigger movie, one that used the short film as a springboard," he reveals. "There are threads of DNA from 'Laura Hasn't Slept' running through Smile."
Anyone who's seen the trailer for Smile will already know how soul-freezingly scary it looks. A doctor is haunted by visions of smiling people, but not the kind that puts a spring in your step or that Katy Perry or Justin Bieber ever sang songs about.
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Making Alien - Jaws in Space - Forty-five years on from its original release, Alien continues to terrify. We dissect what arguably remains the most chilling instalment in the saga
The seven-strong crew of the commercial mining spacecraft the Nostromo seal their fate after reluctantly responding to a mysterious distress signal on a hostile planet. Here, a face-hugging alien from a derelict ship impregnates and later kills executive officer Kane (John Hurt) after its offspring is birthed onboard. After being unleashed, the fearsome newborn with acid for blood proceeds to dispatch the remainder of the crew.Ridley Scott's much more convoluted prequels have yet to reveal how the knowledge that led to this initial interception was acquired. However, the premise of the original Alien is perfect in its uncomplicated purity.
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