Following the impressive worldwide box office performance of Smile in 2022, and the enduring popularity of the supernatural shocker amongst genre fans, director Parker Finn’s sequel does everything a horror follow-up should, picking up where the original installment left off (just six days later), providing some worthwhile call-backs, expanding the scope of the action, and adding in plenty more scares and gore.
Smile 2 takes the chilling phenomenon from the first movie to a new level as global pop sensation Skye Riley (played by a charismatic and captivating Naomi Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Moving on from Smile’s primary victim Dr Rose Cotter, the parasitic demon that terrorizes its hosts by stalking them in the form of people they know while sporting a sinister grin, has a new victim. The entity has now latched onto Skye and wreaks havoc on her life, and career, in a very public way, all the while continuing its modus operandi of causing its victims to lose their minds and then take their own lives in front of an unwitting witness so it can transfer a new body.
