Smile 2‘s Latest Trailer Is About the Terror of Pop Stardom

Paramount has released a caller trailer for Smile 2, the upcoming sequel to 2022’s memetic fearfulness movie, Smile. Dive in, below:

According to the film’s authoritative synopsis, the communicative concerns “global popular sensation Skye Riley,” 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.”

As the trailer details, Riley (Naomi Scott) inherits the transmissible smiling curse from a affluent precocious schoolhouse person (Lukas Gage) who owns some a framed squirt weapon postulation and nary little than two astronaut-themed pinball machines. This comes astatine the worst imaginable time, since, arsenic Skye reveals connected The Drew Barrymore Show, she’s astir to embark connected the 2nd fractional of a satellite tour. Given her celebrity, the smiling ghouls she’s abruptly hounded by are interpreted arsenic overeager fans by her clueless manager (Rosemarie Dewitt). Luckily, Riley has an state successful Morris (Peter Jacobson), a kooky adept connected the improvement who claims to person traced the drawstring of deaths straight to her.

Co-starring Kyle Gallner, Dylan Gelula, Raul Castillo and Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Smile 2 promises to uncover much astir the root of the mysterious grinning entity portion providing salient commentary connected the quality of celebrity. Following Trap, this is the 2nd large fearfulness movie of the twelvemonth focusing connected a pistillate popular prima with an online media beingness and original songs written for the movie’s advertizing campaign–a inclination we sincerely anticipation continues. In a philharmonic clime presently dominated by the likes of Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and more, arsenic good arsenic the zealotry of fandom and the quality of its parasocial relationship with these artists, it’s practically the work of the fearfulness genre to research this, and we anticipation Smile 2 is capable to emergence to the occasion. We’ll each find retired unneurotic erstwhile it reaches theaters this October 18. 

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