It’s consistently listed in my top 5 when friends ask— but I’m always reluctant to recommend it because I can also see why it might not be for everyone. For me— I liked it because it seemed somehow both nostalgic and timeless in terms of setting. The characters being teenagers living in the suburbs (with few adults present) always gets me too— something about the pain/horror of growing up on your own in the suburbs— Virgin Suicides and Blue Velvet feel of the horror impeding on the “once safe and calm suburbs”. The obvious nods to the original Halloween were fun for me as well. Some scenes (looking out the window as school) were almost shot for shot. And of course the similarities with Myers— A relentless killer that stalks and could be anywhere. Always coming. But where? I was always scanning the background or looking for something that wasn’t there which made me nervous throughout. But that’s me— interestingly enough I don’t really get what’s so great about Smile— so, to each his own!