The sequel to the huge hit 'Smile'. It will be interesting to see if lightning strikes twice for this franchise!

Bloody hell this is a lot, I will probs post something more extensive in a few days once I've processed but Naomi Scott was fab, she's such an underrated actress tbh

Xreepy pasta turned into a movie. Shite!

Not true, these movies are really well done - jump scares are the cheapest form of scare and this film has somehow made them actually scary by the unpredictable nature of when they appear and not knowing when the next jump is coming, the sequences where she's alone in a dark room are chilling. Plus a lot of horror falls victim to characters being stupid, but in this case, they haven't got a choice as their reality is completely warped as it gets stronger and no one else can properly support as they can't see it. It's a great depiction of the isolation of trauma.

 

I was wondering if this would just be more of the same, and while it was in some ways, it felt much higher scale and devastating which still made it fresh. You really felt the entity had more of a plan with this one and the troubled pop star victim was a great one to explore to make the stakes feel higher, it was gripping if incredibly anxiety-inducing, I'm not sure why I torture myself :lol: Naomi Scott was indeed fantastic, really got that balance between vulnerability and troubled.

 

The ending was suitably disturbing and I'm very intrigued if they'll be a third one

Given how many people saw the smile this time, we could easily be in an Apocalyptic, Quiet Place type scenario. Hopefully, they'll come up with something to keep it fresh without writing themselves into a corner as it's looking like the entity will be almost be God-like in powers at this stage!

 

This film was sooo anxiety inducing, it takes a lot for a film to make me feel like that as gore and jump scares usually don't bother me but there was something about the build up to this, it genuinely felt like you did not get a break between scares, I agree that they were really well done as I didn't feel like they were just doing it for the sake of it, everything made sense from the perspective of Skye.

 

This one was a huge step up from the first, I think because of how well realised Skye was as a main character and how you were completely encapsulated into her world both in and outside of the entity.

 

The ending was predictable but I'm not mad, it was more predictable in the sense that it was the only logical/worthwhile direction for it to go in. It's interesting how the idea to "kill" it comes from giving it nowhere to go once it moves on from a victim but what happens if it has so many options on what happens next? I think that was a great way to leave it open for another film.