With the release of “Smiley,” the horror genre has reached a new low. Or perhaps a total exhaustion of malevolent possibilities is a more accurate summary of the monumental nonsense that’s intended to pass for a story, which two screenwriters have bravely taken full credit for. A ludicrous condemnation of hacktivism layered with worn out slasher clichés, “Smiley” is witless, charmless motion picture that imagines itself an ideal vessel for co-writer/director Michael J. Gallagher to purge his rudimentary ideas on the fragile state of online ethics, hoping to offer younger audiences a lesson on reckless behavior while mounting one of the most inept movies of 2012. The only thing truly scary about this terror film is that somebody paid to have it produced. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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