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

Paramount has released a caller trailer for Smile 2, a sequel to the 2022 film astir a trauma-harvesting entity that smiles astatine you similar Richard D. James connected an Aphex Twin medium cover.

Starring Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kyle Gallner, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Raúl Castillo, Dylan Gelula, Ray Nicholson, the sequel follows “global popular sensation” Skye arsenic she begins “experiencing progressively terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to look her acheronian past to regain power of her beingness earlier it spirals retired of control.” Written and directed by the the archetypal film’s Parker Finn, the sequel appears to grow connected the original’s horrifying premise— an invisible monster appears to you, smiling, and the lone mode to get escaped of it is to traumatize a bystander.

Much similar M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming Trap which besides concerns an on-the-rise popular star, Smile 2 adds a caller wrinkle to the anxiety-provoking representation of an approaching well-wisher by making the unfortunate a personage who indispensable person to woody with this crap constantly. By the aforesaid token, the workplace is doubling down connected the archetypal film’s viral selling campaign by providing its fictitious starlet with her ain original music disposable to watercourse connected Youtube and Spotify, a billboard successful Los Angeles and adjacent an Instagram leafage that may-or-may not beryllium managed by an obsessive fan.

Of course, whether oregon not the ever-encroaching visage of idiosyncratic who wants your attraction causes your humor to crook acold volition alteration from idiosyncratic to person, Smile 2 inactive has its digit connected the pulse of 2024: it’s truthful weird seeing radical happy. Uncanny, even.

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