Terror on the 13th: Smiling Woman 2

 As the title makes obvious, tonight's selection is a sequel; you can watch the first film in this series, here. 

The Smiling Woman series is something of a signature effort for writer/director Alex Magana. In this installment, it emerges that the ghost of the title is something of a "wandering curse", an element we also find in another of Magana's short film series, Don't Fall Asleep. 

We hope you enjoy this spooky film... and that you, too, will begin to wonder why the Smiling Woman is haunting women who are alone in the early hours of the day. (We have a "fan fiction"-type backstory for what's going on that maybe we'll share in this space some day; we hope these films will inspire similar your imaginations, too!)

 

Smiling Woman 2
Starring: Prathyusha and Ariel Fullinwider
Director: Alex Magana
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

An officer worker (Prathyusha) at the end of a long day is pursued through a deserted parking garage by a crazed woman in a yellow dress (Fullinwider).

Terror on the 13th: Smiling Woman

Every month, on the 13th, you'll find another short film here. We hope it will pass the time until Terror Titans springs back to full life next October for another 31 Nights of Halloween!

We're leading off with the first installment of what currently appears to be writer/director Alex Magana's signature series, Smiling Woman. It features a nice merging of a ghost story with modern technology, along with a healthy dose of urban legend sensibility. 

 
Smiling Woman (2019)

Starring: Ariel Fullinwider and Merlynda Sol

Director: Alex Magana

Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

It's a few moments past 1AM, the train station is all but deserted, and a young woman (Fullinwider) is about to have a strange encounter...