Smile 2 2024 HDTV.DUAL.H Torrent
44/49
Featured in The 7PM Project: Episode dated 17 October 2024 (2024)
Plot
About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her past.. Kyle Gallner is the only actor to reprise his role from the first film so far.. Skye Riley: [to the Smile Entity] You’re not in control, I am!.
How wrong I was
I did not have the highest hopes for 'Smile 2'. It seemed like a concept that had one film in it and nothing more. This film took an above average horror film in the original, and said we are going to better it in every way.I mean don’t get me wrong, it’s still popcorn horror, but it’s popcorn horror of the highest quality. Jump scares rarely get anything out of me these days.
This one had be jumped out of my chair multiple times
I do have to make a note on this however – these seemed like the loudest jump-scares I’ve ever heard in a cinema. Even when the fright didn’t work the sheer noise was capable of being quite starting. Not entirely sure if that was just the volume in my cinema or the sound mixing.I worried when we were introduced to the lead character, and she was a pop-star, that it was going to be hard to side with her. Pop-stars in real life haven’t exactly made themselves the most likeable of people over the last couple of decades.
Her character was quite well created though
She was flawed, but she was also very personable and easy to side with. It helped that we got a terrific performance out of Naomi Scott it has to be said.A good opening scene in horror movie has become a lost art. It’s so important to get your audience hooked from the get go and set the standard. Many modern horror films forget about this, but not this film.
It never did though and it even stuck the ending which I was really worried it wasn’t going to do
The opening scene was great and really kicked the film off on the right note.This film is pretty long for a horror film, coming in at over 2 hours. That’s an ambitious ask to keep the quality up for that long and I kept wondering when it was all going to fall apart. I never thought I’d be writing this, but 'Smile 2' is going to be a contender for one of the best horror films of 2024. 9.5/10.