Watch the Intense Opening of Smile 2 Online—If You Can Grin the Whole Time

How beardown are your facial muscles? That’ll beryllium enactment to the trial if you privation to ticker the archetypal 7 minutes of Smile 2 escaped online, courtesy of Paramount. And if you haven’t seen Smile 2 yet, it’s surely a tempting offer: the country successful question explains the destiny of 1 of the first Smile movie‘s fewer survivors: Joel, played by Kyle Gallner. But there’s a catch. Going to the Paramount site to ticker the clip activates your webcam, and it volition know if you halt smiling, adjacent for a divided second:

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Busted! So to spot what happens, you person to grin—fortunately, your look doesn’t person to beryllium arsenic demonically exaggerated arsenic the afflicted characters successful the Smile movies, but it’s got to beryllium determination betwixt “polite listener” and “beauty pageant contestant.” Otherwise the footage volition deed intermission and punctual you to crook that frown upside down.

It’s a shocking country and frankly, the impulse to halt smiling and marque another, much horrified look volition beryllium hard to defy arsenic the twists and turns commencement happening. You’ll person to prevention your much knee-jerk reactions for erstwhile you’re really watching Smile 2 successful the theater, due to the fact that this promo gimmick volition chopped you disconnected until you comply with the rules. For what it’s worth, Smile 2 has already proven to beryllium a box-office hit, truthful this is conscionable Paramount being clever alternatively than hopeless to lure successful audiences.

Here’s the Smile 2 authoritative synopsis: “About to embark connected a caller satellite tour, planetary popular sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) 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 Parker Finn, who besides made the archetypal Smile successful 2022, Smile 2 besides stars Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Raúl Castillo, Dylan Gelula, and Ray Nicholson. It’s successful theaters now. Watch the archetypal 7 minutes here, if you tin decently explicit yourself the full time.

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