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
Curator score: 3.8/10
IMDb: 6.7/10
Letterboxd: 3.21/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
Metacritic: 67
TMDB: 6.6/10
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