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 “world 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 develop on the original’s horrifying premise— an invisible monster seems to you, smiling, and the one option to do away with it’s to traumatize a bystander.

Very like M. Evening Shyamalan’s upcoming Entice 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 celeb who will need to have to take care of this shit continuously. By the identical token, the studio is doubling down on the primary movie’s viral marketing campaign by offering its fictitious starlet along with her personal original music accessible 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.

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

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