Smile 2 (2024)

Movie · 2024 · Horror, Music, Mystery, Thriller · 2h 7m · R · English

Curator score: 3.8/10 (1M ratings)

It's the last thing you'll see.

Overview

About to embark on a new 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 dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.

Ratings

Director

Parker Finn

Production

Paramount Pictures, Temple Hill Entertainment, Bad Feeling

Cast

Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Ray Nicholson, Dylan Gelula, Raúl Castillo, Kyle Gallner, Drew Barrymore, Zebedee Row, Roberts Jekabsons, Sean Stolzen, Jon Rua, Vladimir Duthiers, Kristine Johnson, Margot Weintraub, Christopher Bailey, Xhloe Rice, Caitlyn Classey

Where to watch

Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, Philo, Amazon Prime Video with Ads

Curator Review

Verdict

A slick, high-energy sequel that leans harder into pop-star psychodrama than the first film, with strong lead work, punishing sound design, and a glossy nightmare atmosphere. It’s more effective as a stress-fueled celebrity horror ride than as a puzzle-box mystery.

Best for

  • viewers who like horror about fame, performance, and public breakdowns
  • fans of loud, jump-scare-driven theatrical horror
  • people who enjoy stylish, music-adjacent psychological horror
  • audiences looking for a strong central performance in a genre film

Skip if

  • you want tightly explained supernatural rules
  • you dislike relentless jump scares and sensory assault
  • you prefer subtle, slow-burn horror over glossy chaos
  • you were hoping for a warm or campy music-industry drama

Overview

Smile 2 takes the franchise’s basic idea and gives it a more vivid, more exhausting engine: a pop star whose life is already collapsing under scrutiny, pressure, and old trauma. That setup gives the film a stronger emotional spine than a standard haunted-celebrity premise, and Naomi Scott carries a lot of the movie’s tension with a performance that keeps shifting between control, panic, and performance mode.

Worth noting

Parker Finn stages the horror with a polished, aggressive style. The movie is built around jolts, distorted perception, and a sense that every public space can turn hostile at any second. It can feel overstuffed and a little slippery in its logic, but the audiovisual craft is the point: this is horror as a tour stop from hell.

Bottom line

If the first film felt like an effective concept proof, this sequel feels like a bigger, meaner showcase. It’s not especially interested in clean answers, but it is interested in making anxiety feel contagious. For viewers in the mood for a glossy, high-decibel nightmare with a strong lead performance, it delivers.

Top Letterboxd reviews

jer ☘️ (4★) · 25523 likes

This happens when you don't thank Beyoncé

Sydney🚀 (3★) · 18306 likes

Naomi Scott is so good in this but the most impressive part was how she was continuously just downing entire bottles of Voss water like a fucking champ

ash (2.5★) · 16170 likes

This is going to ruin the tour

corey👻 (4★) · 14648 likes

lady raven and skye riley cunty world tour when

tcd98 (4★) · 12980 likes

Who wants to live that badly

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Topics

psychological horror, supernatural thriller, celebrity culture, pop music, performance anxiety, trauma, jump scares, stylized horror, body horror, 2020s

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