Parker Finn gave horror followers one thing to Smile about together with his cheerily titled 2022 chiller a couple of malevolent entity that passes from grin to smile. And now the filmmaker is trying to make horror sequel followers smile too with, nicely, Smile 2. Trying to go larger and bolder with the collection’ easy say-cheese-and-die premise, this day out Finn is upping the ante by casting Naomi Scott as pop megastar protagonist Skye Riley, whose worldwide tour will get royally funked up by a succession of sinister smirking faces. Take a look at the creepy new trailer under:
After the pop star personae focus of Smile 2‘s first trailer, this one skews darker and extra insular, ramping up the dread as we see how Skye first comes face to leering face with the saga’s teeth-bearing, transmissible entity. In brief, it entails Lukas Gage, an unwelcome phantom customer, and a few bone-crunching enterprise with a weightlifting plate that provides the phrase ‘hitting the health club’ a complete new which means. From there, it’s smiles all spherical for everybody besides Skye as her profession, psychological well being, and full life spiral uncontrolled, forcing the songstress to take drastic motion in her quest to trace down the supply of her sorrows. With shrill strings, claustrophobic close-ups, and beaming oddballs up the wazoo, it appears like one other nightmarish psychological chiller awaits.
Right here’s the official synopsis for the smirksome sequel: “About to embark on a brand new world tour, international pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing more and more terrifying and inexplicable occasions. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is pressured to face her darkish previous to regain management of her life earlier than it spirals uncontrolled.” Kyle Gallner is ready to reprise the function of Joel from Smile, while Peter Jacobsen, Rosemary DeWitt, Dylan Gelula, Raul Castillo and Miles Gutierrez-Riley are all aboard this day out for Finn’s newest spherical of grinning grimness.
So will Smile 2 get us within the spooky season spirit? Or will it make us frown upside-up? We’ll discover out when Parker Finn’s newest horror providing hits cinemas on 18 October.
