"Smile 2" begins with a title card that reads, "Six Days Later." That leads us to find out what happened to Joel, whose fate was left up in the air at the end of "Smile." We then move to follow Skye Riley, a pop star who is on a comeback after a horrific accident killed her boyfriend and left her hospitalized. Trying to get her life together, Skye is trying to repair both her reputation and damaged relationships, but a visit to an old friend turns everything on its ear...
"Smile 2" absolutely knocks it out of the park, led by a absolutely bravura performance by Naomi Scott as Skye. In some ways, this is like "Aliens" and "Terrifier 2" in that it takes the storyline and mythos from the first movie and makes it bigger and broader. Everything about "Smile 2" works -- it has the same discomforting pattern of not really knowing what's real and what's not and the "demon/entity" remains truly scary. Word of caution -- writer/director Parker Finn ups the gore content here, but every bit of it is within the context of the film. And while a lot of movies ending just sets up a sequel, "Smile 2" has an absolutely "HOLY S***!" ending that I'm not totally sure could spawn a sequel!!
Unqualified recommendation. Hard to describe just how good Naomi Scott is in this movie, if it were even within the realm of possibility for a low budget horror film to get award nominations, Scott would be there. It's a wonderful time to be a horror fan, there is a strong likelihood that in back to back weeks the top two movies on the box office will be "Smile 2" and "Terrifier 3" -- movies whose combined budget is probably less than the meal budget on a Marvel film!
"Smile 2" absolutely knocks it out of the park, led by a absolutely bravura performance by Naomi Scott as Skye. In some ways, this is like "Aliens" and "Terrifier 2" in that it takes the storyline and mythos from the first movie and makes it bigger and broader. Everything about "Smile 2" works -- it has the same discomforting pattern of not really knowing what's real and what's not and the "demon/entity" remains truly scary. Word of caution -- writer/director Parker Finn ups the gore content here, but every bit of it is within the context of the film. And while a lot of movies ending just sets up a sequel, "Smile 2" has an absolutely "HOLY S***!" ending that I'm not totally sure could spawn a sequel!!
Unqualified recommendation. Hard to describe just how good Naomi Scott is in this movie, if it were even within the realm of possibility for a low budget horror film to get award nominations, Scott would be there. It's a wonderful time to be a horror fan, there is a strong likelihood that in back to back weeks the top two movies on the box office will be "Smile 2" and "Terrifier 3" -- movies whose combined budget is probably less than the meal budget on a Marvel film!