SMILE 2

Smile 2 is a 2024 American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Parker Finn. A sequel to Smile (2022), the film stars Naomi Scott as Skye Riley, a pop star who begins to experience a series of increasingly disturbing events just as she is about to embark on tour. It also features Rosemarie DeWitt and Miles Gutierrez-Riley with Kyle Gallner reprising his role from the first film.

Six days after Rose Cotter's death, the now-cursed Joel attempts to pass the Smile Entity on by killing one murderous criminal in front of another. He accidentally kills the witness in a shootout, and drug dealer Lewis Fregoli, whom Joel had not previously noticed, inherits the curse as a bystander. Joel tries to flee when more criminals arrive, but is run over and killed by an oncoming pick-up truck.

Meanwhile, New York-based pop star Skye Riley appears on The Drew Barrymore Show as she prepares for her comeback tour following a public struggle with substance abuse and a car crash that killed her actor boyfriend, Paul Hudson. Despite constant supervision from her mother/manager Elizabeth, Skye sneaks out to buy Vicodin from Lewis, her high school friend, after injuring her back in rehearsals. After Skye arrives at his apartment, Lewis begins screaming and panicking before being possessed by the Entity. While Skye watches, Lewis rises, smiling, and fatally smashes his face in with a barbell plate, traumatizing Skye and passing the curse onto her. Afraid of being found with Lewis's corpse and a room full of drugs, Skye leaves without alerting the authorities.