The sequel to one of 2022's breakout horror hits manages to shake off its gimmick and mine the nightmarish depths of pop stardom, the pressures of public performance and smiling through the pain when there's an entire industry machine depending on your talent.
, holding up a funhouse mirror to satirise — and, in its own warped way, celebrate — the giddy excesses of fame.In this sequel to horror hit Smile, the grinning entity attaches itself to a pop superstar mounting her big comeback.
Things pick up mere days after the first movie's bleak ending, in which our beleaguered heroine had set herself ablaze in an attempt to expel the smirking demon, only to pass it on to the cop trying to save her.Supplied: ParamountThe 'smile', by way of a brief recap, attaches itself to a host and eventually forces them to take their own life in front of its next victim.
Written and directed, like the first film, by American director Parker Finn, Smile 2 initially feels like a rote retread of its predecessor — there are the same fake-out hallucinations, the same smiling demons popping up in expectedly unexpected places, and a sense that the novelty of the idea might have run its course.
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