Smile 2’s First Trailer Takes Its Creepy Premise Into the World of Pop Fandom

Paramount has launched a brand new trailer for Smile 2, a sequel to the 2022 film a few trauma-harvesting entity that smiles at you want Richard D. James on an Aphex Twin album cover.

Starring Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kyle Gallner, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Raúl Castillo, Dylan Gelula, Ray Nicholson, the sequel follows “international pop sensation” Skye as she begins “experiencing more and more terrifying and inexplicable occasions. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is compelled to face her darkish previous to regain management of her life earlier than it spirals uncontrolled.” Written and directed by the the primary movie’s Parker Finn, the sequel seems to broaden on the original’s horrifying premise— an invisible monster seems to you, smiling, and the one solution to do away with it’s to traumatize a bystander.

Very like M. Night time Shyamalan’s upcoming Lure which additionally issues an on-the-rise pop star, Smile 2 provides a brand new wrinkle to the anxiety-provoking picture of an approaching well-wisher by making the sufferer a star who will need to have to cope with this shit always. By the identical token, the studio is doubling down on the primary movie’s viral marketing campaign by offering its fictitious starlet together with her personal original music out there to stream on Youtube and Spotify, a billboard in Los Angeles and even an Instagram web page that may-or-may not be managed by an obsessive fan.

In fact, whether or not or not the ever-encroaching visage of somebody who desires your consideration causes your blood to show chilly will fluctuate from individual to individual, Smile 2 nonetheless has its finger on the heart beat of 2024: it’s so bizarre seeing individuals blissful. Uncanny, even.

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