Creepshow/Smile

Smile
Season 4, Episode 1B
Release date	October 13, 2023
Written by	Mike Scannell
Directed by	John Harrison
← 4x01A Twenty Minutes with Cassandra	4x02A → The Hat
Creepshow — Season Four

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Smile is part of the first episode of the fourth season of Creepshow, and the eighteenth episode overall.

Starring: Matthew James Dowden (James Harris), Lucie Guest (Sarah Harris), Max Archibald (Max), Roberto Lanzas (Photographer), Daniel Ian Joeck (Maitre D'), Claire Freisen (Waitress), Aleksandra Cross (Excited Young Woman), Mateo Deuma (Gabriel)

Plot Overview

Having just won an award for a taking a particularly haunting picture in South America, photojournalist James Harris celebrates with a pleasant night out with his wife. When the pair are photographed by a faceless man in a black hoodie, then start finding photos that show the future up and down the streets, things start turning serious when James decides that there might be something otherworldly haunting him, having to do with his photo.

Trivia

The Show

• As the comic for this episode closes, we see panels from All Hallow's Eve.

• Lorna's abstract painting from the previous episode, Twenty Minutes with Cassandra, can be glimpsed on the wall of the Harris house near the end.

• The "Father's Day" ashtray can be seen on a shelf in the Harris' living room for a split-second as James and Sarah pull into the driveway.

• Much like the segment "Something to Tide You Over", James is attacked by a reanimated, waterlogged corpse that seeks revenge on him for letting them die.

Allusions and References

• The use of a camera that predicts horrible futures for every photo it takes is borrowed from the The Twilight Zone episode "A Most Unusual Camera".

• Sarah gives her son Max the nickname "Pooh Bear", much like the goofy farmer's dog in Killer Klowns from Outer Space.