Everyone thinks the next movie is going to be apocalyptic, but I think the entity passing itself on to so many people might actually be the cause of its undoing. In the first two films, it's been able to keep its existence hidden under the guise of its victims insanity, yet 4 people were still able to discover the chain (Rose, the cop, the inmate who broke the chain, and Morris). When it's discovered that everyone who attended Skye's concert are self-deleting with a smile on their face like Skye had in front of them, the entity won't be able to stay hidden any longer. My theory is that people around the world will band together and find a way to beat it for good. It's too greedy, gluttonous, and thinks it's invincible. Afterall, pride cometh before the fall...
Also statistically speaking about 1 in 100 people are psychopaths, and wouldn’t be affected by scenes of violence, making it likely someone in the audience was a psychopath. This means there are people who can observe the entity’s behavior and discover new weaknesses
I wonder how it'd work if the entity spread it to someone with psychopathy or someone who handles trauma insanely well. Cause like without trauma or those emotions, no power
I feel like the entity would manipulate them into killing someone brutally in front of a witness to pass on the its next victim. That how the one person that survived the entity managed to survive.
That’s what I told to my friends when we were watching it, since she’s obviously popular and that a showcase was coming soon, the end was definitely planned to be on the stage to get a lot of people watching her death and get cursed
Legit 20 minutes into the movie while I was in the theater I leaned over to my girlfriend and was like wouldn’t it be crazy if at the end she killed herself at her concert and everyone got it lmao
i wonder if maybe the reason Skye seemed to be infected quicker than Rose is because she had a history of drug and alcohol abuse and was still recovering, so she was weaker
Rose was a therapist who dealt with crazy shit on a daily basis. She knew what was happening to her was all in her head, but that didn’t save her in the end. It only made the entity stronger when it finally consumed her.
She also had a lot of more weight on her shoulders considering all of her moves were being watched by literally millions, so she had pretty much 0 support system
@@TheCorrodedManThe fact that it had a therapist as a host was probably the best thing for the Entity in the long run, because of how buried everything is with therapists because they have to look out for their patients emotions more than their own, and when Rose, someone that has buried everything deep, was infected by the Entity, basically opened up Pandora's box of how to take care of people quickly
My main question is: Since thousands of people were now exposed, does the entity just have to go one by one? It's just one entity, so it's pretty funny to think about it getting bogged down from tens of thousands of individuals every day, or having to spend essentially a few decades at a 9-5 to get to every person there. And also, since multiple people can be witness to and potentially affected by the curse, and tens of thousands were just exposed, this means every human on Earth could be affected by the curse within a few weeks (if we assume the entity is able to go after them all at once).
In the first film, the prisoner who survived the curse mentions there have "been other chains in the past" so it could be the case that multiple chains could be spawned from an event like that. Perhaps that's how the entity reproduces.
I mean it’s a paranormal entity so it could very well be in several places at once. Maybe it doesn’t have a singular self like humans and other animals do, maybe it’s more like a force of nature than a single being.
I'd like to think it can infect them all but can only torment one person at a time. The others are infected asymptomatically until it's their turn to suffer.
Yep literally a viral curse with a 7 day gestation period before it matures and can transmit. The smart move would be to have a Paramount + T.V. miniseries called Smile - The Clear Skye Curse. With Darius her Record Company head launching a Crisis Charity called Clear Skyes to treat those affected at the concert all done on a Better Help style call. We see each Episode those who have been stuck in a que for 6 days finally getting a Clear Skyes Councilor as The Smile Entity completes it's cycle. Like a live stream you get digital distortion seeing the Monstrosity manifest in a variety of different ways showing that there are individual strains of the curse not just one all competing with each other to dominate their influence getting stronger with each mind consumed.
Smile and it's sequel reminds me of 'It Follows' and 'The Ring'. In 'It Follows', a young woman is haunted by an entity that she can only see after an encounter through physical contact, the movie shows the dangers of STD's and reasons why to use protection. In 'The Ring', a young woman is trying to solve a curse after watching a video tape and has 7 days to live before the curse kills her.
its literally the embodiment of stress, anxiety, and depression we go through after suffering through traumatic experiences, and when we let those experiences consume us, instead of properly dealing with them, and then possibly passing it on to those around us. Basically covering the dark cloud with a smile, like a sad clown.
I was wondering what would happen to someone with schizoaffective disorder. Or someone who just already experiences hallucinations, voices, and such on a daily basis
Naomi's acting was 💯 superb! I haven't seen an actress eat up a role in this way in a long time! She deserves several awards for this her range is incredible! SHE MADE ME SMILE!!!!!!❤
@@CandleChrisTv I think of it as a curse rather than a singular being/entity. It’s something Lovecraftian and unexplainable. An abstract energy or force. Think of it like Death from Final Destination or The Deadites from The Evil Dead. A sentient curse. The Monstrosity creature and smiling people is just a construct for humans to comprehend as it has no true form.
it wanted to reach a bigger audience & wittily found the right host to get it there and I’m sure it can be everywhere all @ once if it needs to be since it’s not a physical form or human per se. Terribly critical thinkers & ill informed about the metaphysical plane of possibility lol. But why should I have expected a more intelligent comment section. My fault.
naaaah, that kind of horror is predicated on making your feel insignificant, an ant in the bigger picture. what kind of gods go around bullying 1 person at a time to make their own dicks hard
@@chrisjerome4111 A malicious entity, existing in the mind/spirit plane, with no physical form, that influences you or outright possesses you to do horrible things? Sounds close enough to the typical depiction of a demon to me.
I have a theory, but I am sure everyone has already talked about it to death, but here goes: I believe that Skye never even made it past the third/fourth day - well at least her mind didn't. I think within plus-minus 48hrs, Skye was already 'gone' and we were just witnessing whatever little hope was left in her subconscious. Things descended rapidly, and another theory I have was that Morris was never real. The minute he walks out the freezer, we never see him ever again, and the first time we are introduced to him as he texts her it wasn't any longer than 2 days (correct me if I am wrong. I will be doing a rewatch). Morris not being real ties back to my first theory of why Skye was gone before we even knew it and we just witnessed hope. But why would the Entity conjure up a stranger for wishful hopelessness? Some people actually have an easier time talking to strangers about what they're going through because that stranger doesn't know them - it is a clean slate, and that gave her some bit of hope because unlike those around her, a stranger has no reason or benefit to judge and expect anything of her.
The only reason I disagree is because Morris references rose, it doesn’t make sense why the entity would tell her that and she obviously wouldn’t know herself. Also I believe everything that happens after she goes back to her apartment and gets attacked by all the smiling people is not real Morris warned her that if she didn’t go now it would be to late and she didn’t listen
I honestly believe that when she got back to her apartment after witnessing the suicide that it started because why at the end of the movie she’s fully clothed and in stage . I believe every thing was fake the speech , the bar with Morrison . I highly believe that she was living out her life naturally but wasn’t conscious of it because the entity had a hold on her and no one in the real world Paid her anymore when she was out of it because of the tragic death of her boyfriend so they was like she’d isolated because of that so it was like an excused thing for her . Like her soul was gone and her body was there doing its natural state without a soul. So none of it was real except the suicide part with Lewis and her on stage at then end . That entity had a good budget to give her mind a whole movie so she can only watch . Cuz that was amazing . At least Rose had moments in and out the real world . skye had none .
You don't remember when she was in her suite? All the dancers and it climbing into her mouth after being knocked out by the piano? Morris was real the first meeting, but the second time we see him it was most likely the entity. Everything after that moment things just escalated faster and it was all a hallucination. I'd give it another watch. I did and I like that I noticed a few things I didn't upon first viewing.
I agree with you! I think she gave in earlier in the movie! It was so well written and Naomi's acting was superb! Watching it a second time, I think most of the movie was hallucinations.
yea Morris not exising holds up, I think she was "gone" when she dropped her phone: She ended up wearing the the scar-revealing dress she didn't wanted to wear
Or something like Contagion, as world governments would recognize the pattern and probably treat it like a virus. But even though it sounds really interesting, I don’t think post apocalyptic virus horror fits well with the setting of Smile, its just two different types of horror that have two different groups of people who enjoy them
Or what if the movie follows just one new mc, a member of the audience, and as the curse kills more people, the guys surrounding the mc try to quarantine him/her… to little effect, as rose from smile 1 proved
honestly the first one didn't get me that much, idk why it just wasn't that interesting to me, but i rlly liked Smile 2. i think both movies are great and i love each story but imo Smile 2 was done way better
The reason why Smile 1 and now Smile 2 worked is the tour de force performances of the lead actresses. They were phenomenal and it takes talent to pull off not just fear but an overwhelming and consuming dread
I enjoyed the video and you made some solid points, but I was really happy with the movie’s ending. It outdid the first movie’s ending. I also prefer to leave the monster in mystery, but I did really like your idea of how to beat it. Maybe if Sky or Rose actually confronted their pasts then the monster would have less power over them. Rose never spoke about how her mother really died and Sky never confessed her part in her boyfriend’s death either. If they had (regardless of the eyes of the law), would they have essentially beaten the monster?? It’s an idea I would love to see explored.
We saw with Joel someone who wasn't traumatized was infected. That's why even by day six rose was still just standing where she had been the day he saw her, he was still coherent and had the mental fortitude to make a plan and ignore hallucinations because he knew it wasn't real but the circumstances were so hopeless no matter what it's misery but I love it
I'm actually happy that we didn't get to know to much of the entity, makes it more scarier that way. Also loved the jump scares, not that cheap jump scares that some movies have where you can hear the jump scare coming because of the music score in the background building up. Or the classic sudden stop of the score and them boom, jump scare. This movie had none of that, sure I could anticipate some of the scares but most of them came through hard and that is hard to do with me at least. I also think that Skye was so stressed out to begin with and the pain from her accident plus the type of career she had took it's tool on her mentality quick and when she saw all those choreographers grabbing her in her home and held her down for the smile monster to enter, i think that moment she was already under control of the Smile monster and already lost the fight. So maybe even like 40% of the movie was like a fever dream? I really like that you get to feel confused as well as the character in the movie is. You can relate to Skye in some way. Though It is hard to figure out whats true and what it's not true in the movie, Morris character for example is one of those mystic figures that just disappear, maybe a follow up for Smile 3? Just Like start of Smile 3 maybe we get to follow this Morris character after? Would be cool to see what kind of theories he has gathered through the times he was after this "cosmic entity" or something liek that. Smile monster really reminds me of IT as well. IT was also a cosmic entity. Anyway that's my spiel of Smile 2 xD
Skye was distracted by a fly that wasn't there and her phone endlessly ringing on day three then being recognized which Morris didn't react to, day four she got taken down by the dancers and puppeted to the end. Absolutely horrifying. Anyways I think Morris was real in the beginning and at the bar and so traumatized and stressed and in pain she was so easily devoured.
@@Ishicoatl I feel like Morris was real but only in the very first meeting and after that the creature fed her fake hope to keep her mind busy while it set things up in reality. Maybe after experiencing the sheer despair from letting it's previous victim believe she had truly won it wanted that high again and so let Skye have that hope and rush of thinking she won only to rip the rug right out from under her on a scale that far outdid the previous time.
The drivers name is Derek, he had just been to the doctors were he found out he has cancer, he wasn't straight to a bar and had been there for a few hours drinking before driving home, at that time he was listening to music super loud and was messaging his friend when he dropped his phone, reaching down to pick it up and being drunk didn't realise he accelerated and that was when he hit him. After that traumatic ordeal he beat cancer got married had kids lived a full life became a dentist and earned millions from trading, he has 3 grand kids and at his funeral everyone cried and there was some baloons and crackers and hummus dip.
I think it only possess people with trauma. It can detect it. And it will only kill the host when it's sure. I also think it lets a host kill someone else to find another host.
@@MrWaterlionmonkeythis would be true but remember that not everyone in the crowd at the end of the movie was experiencing trauma prior to seeing Skye kill herself on stage, so the entity by default traumatizes the next person it passes itself onto by having the person with it kill themselves in front of that same person in some sort of brutal way
I really enjoyed Smile, even though in some online circles, it seemed to garner a lot of undue criticism that I didn't understand. I haven't seen Smile 2 yet, but I'm keen to watch! Excellent video, Niyat.
Finally watched it today and LOVED it. Even better than the first one. Naomi is incredible as Skye & all of the scenes with her dancing & performing on stage were so well done. Great cast, can’t wait for the next one
You forgot to mention how the Gemma that was with sky all this time wasn’t really Gemma! The phone call in the car was from the real Gemma and that was the first time she got back to sky
Not confirmed. It could be that she actually did visit Sky the first time, but the message might have been yet another hallucination/reality warping. In the first movie, the entity manipulated a phone call, or at least induced a hallucination with a phone call.
I don’t believe we ever saw the real Gemma in the movie. Skye reached out to her and she ignored her completely. The phone call was just the entity messing with her mind
@@MrElmofamily I don’t know tbh. When Sky was late for her rehearsal, Gemma said hi to sky’s mom (Elizabeth) after Sky had left the room. We don’t see Elizabeth respond, so I guess it could have been Sky’s imagination as she walked out the room, but it’s not confirmed either way.
I liked the first one, and I think the second one HAD to be different since the main character has a really different life style, I liked that too. We could connect with Rose on a more personal level, while Skye's world is going "faster" and therefore the pacing also is faster. Many posibilities for part 3; multiple entities? the entity targeting multiple people? the entity targeting a person who is immune to trauma? A prequel? a 1920's prequel?
A good way to keep this formula fresh would be to try adding a character that acts similar to the entity as a red herring like the psichotic stalker. Or try using the perspective of a loved one rather than the actual victim. Like a husband noticing their wife acting progressively heratically, attacking neighboors, himself, etc...
stopping your heart to trick the entity actually sounds pretty smart, if people kept diaries or something (like the paintings she finds) with a detailed explanation of how the monster works it could be stopped like that, assuming stopping your heart works, the second way would be to die without anybody ever knowing I guess, pretty terrifying but it is sort of like eliminating the entity forever.
Stopping your heart wont do anything as you wont be dead, you just wont have any oxegen being pumped through your body but your still going to be alive. If you can be resusitated then you never died.
I've discovered another plot hole: if Gemma and Sky never reconnected and everything from when Sky refused to wear her new costume was just a hallucination from the Smile entity, how did her mother and Gemma interact at 13:39? Also, the entire subplot with the ER nurse was also the Smile entity's doing.
Gemma’s interaction with Elizabeth at 13:39 is NOT a plot hole; it’s actually a subtle hint used to clue the audience in that something is not right with Gemma. Remember, prior to this scene, Elizabeth was encouraging Skye to get back in touch with Gemma as a way to motivate her to stay in a performance-conducive mindset, meaning if Gemma was actually real, Elizabeth would have had a visible reaction to her the moment she walked into the room; aaaahhhh but she didn’t. And then, if that was too subtle to pick up on (which it is), the film tries to cheekily send another hint your way by having Elizabeth NOT respond to Gemma when the latter says hi to her. Now why would Elizabeth just flat out ignore someone who Skye (and presumably herself) haven’t seen in a year? The scene happens so fast that you don’t think about it; but again, during the entirety of it, Elizabeth never once acknowledges Gemma’s existence; and of course she wouldn’t, because she can’t see her. The smile demon on the other hand, can perceive her, and trollingly says hi because it’s an asshole
I think this deserves more credit than it’s getting here. I appreciate well crafted jumpscares. And the ambiguity of what events were real that led to the ending.
I hope Smile 3 turns the table around the Entity. Like, it accidentally infects someone who has no trauma because they are either broken or have a twisted mind.
Personally, i disagree with all the "negative" things you had to say about smile 2. I didn't think any of it dragged on or lost it's edge. The jumpscares made sense and were well executed. I thought it had more emotional depth than the 1st one. All around a much better film than the 1st. Skye didnt even get a chance to investigate what she was experiencing because she was too entangled by her mothers puppet strings.
I'm surprised to hear Smile is a "Hit" because, while I personally did enjoy it, I've seen more comments online calling it Boring than I have saying it's a Good movie. That gives me the impression that the overwhelming majority of people have a negative opinion of the film.
Need to remember that people are more likely to take the time to deride something than to praise it. Negative bias is a hell of a thing on the internet. In saying that, I’ve seen mostly ‘good but nothing exceptional’ as the general consensus
This is the first film in a long time to get me several times with jump scares. Which is my biggest criticism of the film. Perhaps I was just too invested in the film. Sucks because so many scenes in the first are still so effective but jump scares only work once.
Smile 1 was underwhelming, but Smile 2 has received the praise it deserves. I haven't been that uncomfortable and anxious watching a horror movie since years ago, everything about the movie was done right and could not have been made any better, that's how good it was in my opinion.
@@Argantonio-b2r having watched both, what would you say is the biggest difference that made the second one better. Or was it just overall a better rendition?
Naomi plays a convincing American lol Gotta say I really like her reasoning behind playing in a horror movie ( 21:25 ). You don’t see a lot of big actors doing that especially one who has been in a Disney movie.
The fact it defies the thoughts of the victim to form a almost perfect story only to break it in the end it’s just so horrific to think basically your own way of fixing a problem and then break it to them only to end them when they are already breaking down from the reality that’s happening
For the characters in universe no. If someone understands that it is the literal embodiment of there is nothing to fear but fear itself it can't do shit. Just like any horror movie, once the scare factor goes away, it's pointless
Trauma demon accidentally hooks onto a person with Psychopathy which ends up being the end for the beast. Also was Morris even a real person in the entire movie?
The problem with this is that the psychopath needs to have a trauma to be latched on. Psychopaths usually don’t understand what trauma is even when they have traumatic experiences
It would be interesting to see the entity against a psychopath, it tries to scare them but they are unaffected and start laughing like the joker. “Hahahah! Y-you are an actual demon, but nothing you do scares me! Hahahahahaha…”
Here’s what I’m thinking about the smile entity. Based off of what I know, it functions off of people’s trauma. The trauma needs to be spread, usually through the host unaliving themselves… then having someone watch the host do this… all to repeat the cycle. After all, these films have a subtle theme with suicide and its general effect of not just ending someone’s life but passing on their pain to someone else. However, the main scope of these films and the entity isn’t necessarily about the way these people die but more so about simply spreading trauma by any means. This is proven by the guy in the prison and Joel who did (or tried to) kill someone else while having another person watch. Though I have a feeling that the scope of the third film will dive even deeper into how the entity manipulates one’s (lack of) trauma. I mean Joel was able to just walk past his hallucinations due to his determination to his plan. I’m sure the next movie will show someone handling their trauma, and therefore the entity, better than the last victims. Not everyone is as isolated as rose or Skye. I definitely still expect the next movie to be consisted of mass unalivings of all kinds.
I'd really like the sister from the first film to come back in the third. She'll likely understand now that what her sister said to her was true, and I wonder if she'll try to help all the newly infected people in some way.
Wouldn’t it have been cool if the demon visited M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter’s character from ‘Trap’, Lady Raven? 😅 Like an amalgamation of the two movies…..
i highly doubt i would’ve been able to sit thru the constant jumpscares of this movie so i greatly appreciate this video and the breakdown of the series/lore lol 🙏❤️
I feel as if most people think she was was already in full hallucination for most of the movie. I think a major chunk of it was especially nearing the final act (at the hospital and after). I do feel as if morris was real when he was talking about how to beat it. The things he was mentioning just don’t seem like something the entity would pull out. I’m sure it had a way easier time taking out Skye due to her already severely deteriorated mental state. I don’t think it truly stuck until after the swarm of her dancers took her and had the arm enter her body. I don’t think there was really any way for her to beat this monster even with morris being real.
I really like these smile movies. I think because the cast and crew take this serious and the lead actresses have been phenomenal in these two entries. I’m excited to see there the series goes especially now that a crowd of about what 20000 people at that concert are cursed.
Morris was not real, Everything up to the point where she was standing in the mirror was all the entity puppeteering her body up to the concert, evidence to back this up is she is wearing the same outfit at the end when she was possessed.
I was wondering-what if the person infected by the entity dies by any other means than their own hand? Like, a murder? What happens? Is it passed on to the killer? Some random person if nobody else witnesses it?
Personally I was confused why Fregoli got possessed and not the gangster who saw the cop get run over. They could have still used that gangster if he was just another drug dealer. Since the cop ran into the road, that's technically a suicide just not an intentional one--maybe that's the difference. I don't know, the opening scene gave me more questions than answers but it was still a great watch. Edit: Fewer jumpscares definitely would be my only note. I know it's because the character can't ever really be "alone" without having the shit scared out of them because they need to be in a constant state of agitation for the demon to do its thing, but I think a good alternative route to just having Fregoli or Skye herself pop up out of nowhere would be like: watching Entertainment Tonight and the host suddenly starts grinning and agitating Skye, she can't turn off the TV and eventually is forced to break it, which of course shattered glass is a trigger in this movie. OR there could be a picture frame of herself as a child that suddenly is seen doing the smile, and she tosses it across the room before her child self appears next to her. It would still be a jumpscare but it would be more impactful in context and not just "boo!"
@ ohhh okay that makes sense. I think so much was going on and it had been a while since I saw the first one that I forgot what the rules were exactly. Thank you.
Maybe that thing should pay me a visit, you know for science, because I've kinda unlearned/forgotten how to laugh, even smiling became a rare thing. And now that I think of it, maybe that thing shouldn't pay me a visit, it would probably get bored, even die.
Bro I love this movie , starting from the first into the second with that intro was fire . I just realized the girl who died at the end of the first one was shown on fire in the second one like wow . Those details were AMAZING
Everyone thinks the next movie is going to be apocalyptic, but I think the entity passing itself on to so many people might actually be the cause of its undoing. In the first two films, it's been able to keep its existence hidden under the guise of its victims insanity, yet 4 people were still able to discover the chain (Rose, the cop, the inmate who broke the chain, and Morris). When it's discovered that everyone who attended Skye's concert are self-deleting with a smile on their face like Skye had in front of them, the entity won't be able to stay hidden any longer. My theory is that people around the world will band together and find a way to beat it for good. It's too greedy, gluttonous, and thinks it's invincible. Afterall, pride cometh before the fall...
Also statistically speaking about 1 in 100 people are psychopaths, and wouldn’t be affected by scenes of violence, making it likely someone in the audience was a psychopath. This means there are people who can observe the entity’s behavior and discover new weaknesses
Ngl it would be bad but no where near apocalyptic, tbh this is just a problem for normal people
@@cadedalexander A psycopath breaking the cycle would honestly be cool ngl
That would actually make for an epic finale to the trilogy, I'd love that.
@@hunterman4488well based off what we know it can’t affect a psychopath
I wonder how it'd work if the entity spread it to someone with psychopathy or someone who handles trauma insanely well. Cause like without trauma or those emotions, no power
-Smile Entity tries to scare someone
'Oh Shit! You're so cool! How do you work? Can you be anyone? Can you be my cat and do a creepy smile???'
Or someone who isn't scared of anything. He'd be like, damn, that's crazy, now move😂
I feel like the entity would manipulate them into killing someone brutally in front of a witness to pass on the its next victim. That how the one person that survived the entity managed to survive.
i think the next movie is gonna be a suicide apocalypse movie
Perhaps the entity is picky and doesn't go after everyone. Like the anti naughty list. Lol
As soon as i realized the main victim was a popstar i saw the end coming but that didn't make it any less terrifying.
That’s what I told to my friends when we were watching it, since she’s obviously popular and that a showcase was coming soon, the end was definitely planned to be on the stage to get a lot of people watching her death and get cursed
same, bro
The way they did her death was so well done though
thisss
Legit 20 minutes into the movie while I was in the theater I leaned over to my girlfriend and was like wouldn’t it be crazy if at the end she killed herself at her concert and everyone got it lmao
i wonder if maybe the reason Skye seemed to be infected quicker than Rose is because she had a history of drug and alcohol abuse and was still recovering, so she was weaker
that's why the movie is paced faster, yea
Rose was a therapist who dealt with crazy shit on a daily basis. She knew what was happening to her was all in her head, but that didn’t save her in the end. It only made the entity stronger when it finally consumed her.
@@Ishicoatlpaced about as fast as old people fuck, yeah
She also had a lot of more weight on her shoulders considering all of her moves were being watched by literally millions, so she had pretty much 0 support system
@@TheCorrodedManThe fact that it had a therapist as a host was probably the best thing for the Entity in the long run, because of how buried everything is with therapists because they have to look out for their patients emotions more than their own, and when Rose, someone that has buried everything deep, was infected by the Entity, basically opened up Pandora's box of how to take care of people quickly
Naomi Scott is really believable as a fictional pop star.
I think she actually does do music so it probably came pretty natural to her. She did a great job
you should watch lemonade mouth
I think it is a pop star we all know
I think she did a great job overall
Yup
My main question is:
Since thousands of people were now exposed, does the entity just have to go one by one? It's just one entity, so it's pretty funny to think about it getting bogged down from tens of thousands of individuals every day, or having to spend essentially a few decades at a 9-5 to get to every person there.
And also, since multiple people can be witness to and potentially affected by the curse, and tens of thousands were just exposed, this means every human on Earth could be affected by the curse within a few weeks (if we assume the entity is able to go after them all at once).
In the first film, the prisoner who survived the curse mentions there have "been other chains in the past" so it could be the case that multiple chains could be spawned from an event like that. Perhaps that's how the entity reproduces.
I mean it’s a paranormal entity so it could very well be in several places at once. Maybe it doesn’t have a singular self like humans and other animals do, maybe it’s more like a force of nature than a single being.
"So on monday I go to timmy, if i'm doing it right it's done by friday, then I go to vanessa"
I'd like to think it can infect them all but can only torment one person at a time. The others are infected asymptomatically until it's their turn to suffer.
Yep literally a viral curse with a 7 day gestation period before it matures and can transmit. The smart move would be to have a Paramount + T.V. miniseries called Smile - The Clear Skye Curse. With Darius her Record Company head launching a Crisis Charity called Clear Skyes to treat those affected at the concert all done on a Better Help style call. We see each Episode those who have been stuck in a que for 6 days finally getting a Clear Skyes Councilor as The Smile Entity completes it's cycle. Like a live stream you get digital distortion seeing the Monstrosity manifest in a variety of different ways showing that there are individual strains of the curse not just one all competing with each other to dominate their influence getting stronger with each mind consumed.
The part in the movie when she escapes the hospital but then steps on glass was the scariest moment for me
And the part of her yanking the needle out her arm
Smile and it's sequel reminds me of 'It Follows' and 'The Ring'.
In 'It Follows', a young woman is haunted by an entity that she can only see after an encounter through physical contact, the movie shows the dangers of STD's and reasons why to use protection.
In 'The Ring', a young woman is trying to solve a curse after watching a video tape and has 7 days to live before the curse kills her.
Smile is just a better version of truth or dare
Most cognitohazard movies are either horribly mid or actually scary and nothing in between.
@@midnightaurora9483dont compare smile to that trash
its literally the embodiment of stress, anxiety, and depression we go through after suffering through traumatic experiences, and when we let those experiences consume us, instead of properly dealing with them, and then possibly passing it on to those around us. Basically covering the dark cloud with a smile, like a sad clown.
I wonder if there is possibility of someone who is immune to Smile entity? Like Psychopaths or true evil people.
I was wondering what would happen to someone with schizoaffective disorder. Or someone who just already experiences hallucinations, voices, and such on a daily basis
Maybe just blind people because they can't really witness (see) the suicides.
@@adl0815I wonder that too, but to hear gross sounds like that can probably mess your head up too
Or people who doesn’t know feels like to be traumatize?
@@adl0815Imagination can be a curse.
Naomi's acting was 💯 superb! I haven't seen an actress eat up a role in this way in a long time! She deserves several awards for this her range is incredible! SHE MADE ME SMILE!!!!!!❤
I was saying the exact thing to my wife!! 10/10. She left no crumbs.
It is good dude bur this is such a bot comment, every new movie "omg they deserve a million awards"
@IGotToGetFunkedUp I'm not a damn bot! I love horror movies and this was a good horror movie...
The scariest part for me is at 13:07
That shit stain on those underwear.
😂
Yeah, definitely imagine if he threw the under at hair and it hit in the face ugh
I physically jerked away from the screen when I saw that!
Same
I’ve always heard that called “skid marks.” 🤢
😂
Imagining the demon when it realized thousands of people were hit with the curse...
"Oh damn, this just became a lot of work.... shit."
it a-sexually will multiply and act as an omniscient being, this isnt hard to figure out
@@CandleChrisTv I think of it as a curse rather than a singular being/entity. It’s something Lovecraftian and unexplainable. An abstract energy or force. Think of it like Death from Final Destination or The Deadites from The Evil Dead. A sentient curse. The Monstrosity creature and smiling people is just a construct for humans to comprehend as it has no true form.
Smile 3 will be about the demon getting burn out
it wanted to reach a bigger audience & wittily found the right host to get it there and I’m sure it can be everywhere all @ once if it needs to be since it’s not a physical form or human per se. Terribly critical thinkers & ill informed about the metaphysical plane of possibility lol. But why should I have expected a more intelligent comment section. My fault.
Smile is way better than Smile 2……the sequel shoulda been about Joel
The demon/entity feels like it belongs in the Lovecraft world.
Yeah, it feels like it would be from the same world as the IT
@@Ryan_McGee it’s probably some kind of eldritch being.
It’s not a demon it’s a entity the movie never said it was a demon
naaaah, that kind of horror is predicated on making your feel insignificant, an ant in the bigger picture. what kind of gods go around bullying 1 person at a time to make their own dicks hard
@@chrisjerome4111
A malicious entity, existing in the mind/spirit plane, with no physical form, that influences you or outright possesses you to do horrible things?
Sounds close enough to the typical depiction of a demon to me.
I have a theory, but I am sure everyone has already talked about it to death, but here goes:
I believe that Skye never even made it past the third/fourth day - well at least her mind didn't. I think within plus-minus 48hrs, Skye was already 'gone' and we were just witnessing whatever little hope was left in her subconscious. Things descended rapidly, and another theory I have was that Morris was never real. The minute he walks out the freezer, we never see him ever again, and the first time we are introduced to him as he texts her it wasn't any longer than 2 days (correct me if I am wrong. I will be doing a rewatch). Morris not being real ties back to my first theory of why Skye was gone before we even knew it and we just witnessed hope.
But why would the Entity conjure up a stranger for wishful hopelessness? Some people actually have an easier time talking to strangers about what they're going through because that stranger doesn't know them - it is a clean slate, and that gave her some bit of hope because unlike those around her, a stranger has no reason or benefit to judge and expect anything of her.
The only reason I disagree is because Morris references rose, it doesn’t make sense why the entity would tell her that and she obviously wouldn’t know herself. Also I believe everything that happens after she goes back to her apartment and gets attacked by all the smiling people is not real Morris warned her that if she didn’t go now it would be to late and she didn’t listen
I honestly believe that when she got back to her apartment after witnessing the suicide that it started because why at the end of the movie she’s fully clothed and in stage . I believe every thing was fake the speech , the bar with Morrison . I highly believe that she was living out her life naturally but wasn’t conscious of it because the entity had a hold on her and no one in the real world Paid her anymore when she was out of it because of the tragic death of her boyfriend so they was like she’d isolated because of that so it was like an excused thing for her . Like her soul was gone and her body was there doing its natural state without a soul. So none of it was real except the suicide part with Lewis and her on stage at then end . That entity had a good budget to give her mind a whole movie so she can only watch . Cuz that was amazing . At least Rose had moments in and out the real world . skye had none .
You don't remember when she was in her suite? All the dancers and it climbing into her mouth after being knocked out by the piano? Morris was real the first meeting, but the second time we see him it was most likely the entity. Everything after that moment things just escalated faster and it was all a hallucination. I'd give it another watch. I did and I like that I noticed a few things I didn't upon first viewing.
I agree with you! I think she gave in earlier in the movie! It was so well written and Naomi's acting was superb! Watching it a second time, I think most of the movie was hallucinations.
yea Morris not exising holds up, I think she was "gone" when she dropped her phone: She ended up wearing the the scar-revealing dress she didn't wanted to wear
I kid you not, I had a therapy commercial during this video that said, “Experiencing trauma? Don’t keep it to yourself!”
When I saw this movie in Theaters the warning, don't talk, turn off phones thing that plays before every movie, ended in share a smile.
I hope we get an apocalyptic event in smile 3. Something like quiet place day 1 but just people scarring people all over the place.
Yeh this is what i thought after seeing the ending. But all the witnesses would have to have a way of also infecting tens of thousands at a time.
oh yeah that would be gamechanging.
Or something like Contagion, as world governments would recognize the pattern and probably treat it like a virus. But even though it sounds really interesting, I don’t think post apocalyptic virus horror fits well with the setting of Smile, its just two different types of horror that have two different groups of people who enjoy them
What if that’s how it reproduces 🥴
Or what if the movie follows just one new mc, a member of the audience, and as the curse kills more people, the guys surrounding the mc try to quarantine him/her… to little effect, as rose from smile 1 proved
Those 2 movies scared the hell outta me when i watched them
you sound like your scared of your own shadow
honestly the first one didn't get me that much, idk why it just wasn't that interesting to me, but i rlly liked Smile 2. i think both movies are great and i love each story but imo Smile 2 was done way better
The reason why Smile 1 and now Smile 2 worked is the tour de force performances of the lead actresses. They were phenomenal and it takes talent to pull off not just fear but an overwhelming and consuming dread
I enjoyed the video and you made some solid points, but I was really happy with the movie’s ending. It outdid the first movie’s ending. I also prefer to leave the monster in mystery, but I did really like your idea of how to beat it. Maybe if Sky or Rose actually confronted their pasts then the monster would have less power over them. Rose never spoke about how her mother really died and Sky never confessed her part in her boyfriend’s death either. If they had (regardless of the eyes of the law), would they have essentially beaten the monster?? It’s an idea I would love to see explored.
We saw with Joel someone who wasn't traumatized was infected. That's why even by day six rose was still just standing where she had been the day he saw her, he was still coherent and had the mental fortitude to make a plan and ignore hallucinations because he knew it wasn't real but the circumstances were so hopeless no matter what it's misery but I love it
I'm actually happy that we didn't get to know to much of the entity, makes it more scarier that way. Also loved the jump scares, not that cheap jump scares that some movies have where you can hear the jump scare coming because of the music score in the background building up. Or the classic sudden stop of the score and them boom, jump scare. This movie had none of that, sure I could anticipate some of the scares but most of them came through hard and that is hard to do with me at least.
I also think that Skye was so stressed out to begin with and the pain from her accident plus the type of career she had took it's tool on her mentality quick and when she saw all those choreographers grabbing her in her home and held her down for the smile monster to enter, i think that moment she was already under control of the Smile monster and already lost the fight. So maybe even like 40% of the movie was like a fever dream? I really like that you get to feel confused as well as the character in the movie is. You can relate to Skye in some way.
Though It is hard to figure out whats true and what it's not true in the movie, Morris character for example is one of those mystic figures that just disappear, maybe a follow up for Smile 3? Just Like start of Smile 3 maybe we get to follow this Morris character after? Would be cool to see what kind of theories he has gathered through the times he was after this "cosmic entity" or something liek that. Smile monster really reminds me of IT as well. IT was also a cosmic entity. Anyway that's my spiel of Smile 2 xD
Skye was distracted by a fly that wasn't there and her phone endlessly ringing on day three then being recognized which Morris didn't react to, day four she got taken down by the dancers and puppeted to the end. Absolutely horrifying. Anyways I think Morris was real in the beginning and at the bar and so traumatized and stressed and in pain she was so easily devoured.
Morris was never real. The entity said it in the end "this isn't real".
@@Ishicoatl I feel like Morris was real but only in the very first meeting and after that the creature fed her fake hope to keep her mind busy while it set things up in reality. Maybe after experiencing the sheer despair from letting it's previous victim believe she had truly won it wanted that high again and so let Skye have that hope and rush of thinking she won only to rip the rug right out from under her on a scale that far outdid the previous time.
I love the hallway scene with the dancers. Amazing work by everyone.
Is it me or was the truck going REALLY fast in a residential area?
Like it meant to do that
I'd be leaving the scene quickly if I'd heard gunshots while driving
maybe they were going fast cuz they heard gunshots
The drivers name is Derek, he had just been to the doctors were he found out he has cancer, he wasn't straight to a bar and had been there for a few hours drinking before driving home, at that time he was listening to music super loud and was messaging his friend when he dropped his phone, reaching down to pick it up and being drunk didn't realise he accelerated and that was when he hit him. After that traumatic ordeal he beat cancer got married had kids lived a full life became a dentist and earned millions from trading, he has 3 grand kids and at his funeral everyone cried and there was some baloons and crackers and hummus dip.
😂😂😂
The Entity had Skye in that tsukuyomi fr
Crazy how I thought the same thing watching this in theaters lol
@ nbs bro had the EMS equipped
I don't usually get scared from horror but this one got me. Found myself looking behind me in my basement a few times
But what would happened if the demon possessed a serial killer who is insane with no emotions
It wouldn't.
Remember that the demon/entity is very smart.
I think it only possess people with trauma. It can detect it. And it will only kill the host when it's sure. I also think it lets a host kill someone else to find another host.
you really think that someone who can't feel emotions is unable to experience trauma?
@@MrWaterlionmonkeythis would be true but remember that not everyone in the crowd at the end of the movie was experiencing trauma prior to seeing Skye kill herself on stage, so the entity by default traumatizes the next person it passes itself onto by having the person with it kill themselves in front of that same person in some sort of brutal way
When she snapped back to reality.......oh there goes gravity. (Couldn't help myself.)
I loved both movies. I hope there’s a Smile 3.
Ah yes I love 1000 people to watch
I really enjoyed Smile, even though in some online circles, it seemed to garner a lot of undue criticism that I didn't understand. I haven't seen Smile 2 yet, but I'm keen to watch! Excellent video, Niyat.
Finally watched it today and LOVED it. Even better than the first one. Naomi is incredible as Skye & all of the scenes with her dancing & performing on stage were so well done. Great cast, can’t wait for the next one
You forgot to mention how the Gemma that was with sky all this time wasn’t really Gemma! The phone call in the car was from the real Gemma and that was the first time she got back to sky
We don't even know if Sky was actually in the car. We have no idea if even that phone call was real.
Not confirmed. It could be that she actually did visit Sky the first time, but the message might have been yet another hallucination/reality warping. In the first movie, the entity manipulated a phone call, or at least induced a hallucination with a phone call.
I don’t believe we ever saw the real Gemma in the movie. Skye reached out to her and she ignored her completely. The phone call was just the entity messing with her mind
@@MrElmofamily I don’t know tbh. When Sky was late for her rehearsal, Gemma said hi to sky’s mom (Elizabeth) after Sky had left the room. We don’t see Elizabeth respond, so I guess it could have been Sky’s imagination as she walked out the room, but it’s not confirmed either way.
@ Gemma said she hadn’t been to Gemma’s place in over a year
I’m currently watching House MD, and I did not expect to see Taub and Kutner here
I liked the first one, and I think the second one HAD to be different since the main character has a really different life style, I liked that too.
We could connect with Rose on a more personal level, while Skye's world is going "faster" and therefore the pacing also is faster.
Many posibilities for part 3; multiple entities? the entity targeting multiple people? the entity targeting a person who is immune to trauma?
A prequel? a 1920's prequel?
I liked the way the Voss was Vossing all over the Voss for the whole Voss. It really brought out the Voss in the Voss.
A good way to keep this formula fresh would be to try adding a character that acts similar to the entity as a red herring like the psichotic stalker.
Or try using the perspective of a loved one rather than the actual victim. Like a husband noticing their wife acting progressively heratically, attacking neighboors, himself, etc...
stopping your heart to trick the entity actually sounds pretty smart, if people kept diaries or something (like the paintings she finds) with a detailed explanation of how the monster works it could be stopped like that, assuming stopping your heart works, the second way would be to die without anybody ever knowing I guess, pretty terrifying but it is sort of like eliminating the entity forever.
Stopping your heart wont do anything as you wont be dead, you just wont have any oxegen being pumped through your body but your still going to be alive. If you can be resusitated then you never died.
I honestly think he no plans on bringing her back.
I've discovered another plot hole: if Gemma and Sky never reconnected and everything from when Sky refused to wear her new costume was just a hallucination from the Smile entity, how did her mother and Gemma interact at 13:39? Also, the entire subplot with the ER nurse was also the Smile entity's doing.
Gemma’s interaction with Elizabeth at 13:39 is NOT a plot hole; it’s actually a subtle hint used to clue the audience in that something is not right with Gemma. Remember, prior to this scene, Elizabeth was encouraging Skye to get back in touch with Gemma as a way to motivate her to stay in a performance-conducive mindset, meaning if Gemma was actually real, Elizabeth would have had a visible reaction to her the moment she walked into the room; aaaahhhh but she didn’t. And then, if that was too subtle to pick up on (which it is), the film tries to cheekily send another hint your way by having Elizabeth NOT respond to Gemma when the latter says hi to her.
Now why would Elizabeth just flat out ignore someone who Skye (and presumably herself) haven’t seen in a year? The scene happens so fast that you don’t think about it; but again, during the entirety of it, Elizabeth never once acknowledges Gemma’s existence; and of course she wouldn’t, because she can’t see her. The smile demon on the other hand, can perceive her, and trollingly says hi because it’s an asshole
They didnt interact lol. Gemma just said hello. Thats it.
But they didn’t interact. “Gemma” said hi but her mom didn’t say or do anything in acknowledgement
I think this deserves more credit than it’s getting here. I appreciate well crafted jumpscares. And the ambiguity of what events were real that led to the ending.
I hope Smile 3 turns the table around the Entity. Like, it accidentally infects someone who has no trauma because they are either broken or have a twisted mind.
I loved the soundtracks in this movie. They did a really good job 👏🏽
13:09 the skid mark is wild
Personally, i disagree with all the "negative" things you had to say about smile 2. I didn't think any of it dragged on or lost it's edge. The jumpscares made sense and were well executed. I thought it had more emotional depth than the 1st one. All around a much better film than the 1st. Skye didnt even get a chance to investigate what she was experiencing because she was too entangled by her mothers puppet strings.
I'm surprised to hear Smile is a "Hit" because, while I personally did enjoy it, I've seen more comments online calling it Boring than I have saying it's a Good movie. That gives me the impression that the overwhelming majority of people have a negative opinion of the film.
Need to remember that people are more likely to take the time to deride something than to praise it. Negative bias is a hell of a thing on the internet.
In saying that, I’ve seen mostly ‘good but nothing exceptional’ as the general consensus
This is the first film in a long time to get me several times with jump scares. Which is my biggest criticism of the film. Perhaps I was just too invested in the film. Sucks because so many scenes in the first are still so effective but jump scares only work once.
Smile 1 was underwhelming, but Smile 2 has received the praise it deserves. I haven't been that uncomfortable and anxious watching a horror movie since years ago, everything about the movie was done right and could not have been made any better, that's how good it was in my opinion.
@@Argantonio-b2r having watched both, what would you say is the biggest difference that made the second one better. Or was it just overall a better rendition?
You should watch it, it is a masterpiece horror IMO. Upped the stakes from Smile 1 in a way that felt natural and very well acted.
infecting a super-star as a sight based entity, is the equivalent of winning the lottery
Hell yea! I have been waiting for you to cover this one!!!!
Naomi plays a convincing American lol
Gotta say I really like her reasoning behind playing in a horror movie ( 21:25 ). You don’t see a lot of big actors doing that especially one who has been in a Disney movie.
The fact it defies the thoughts of the victim to form a almost perfect story only to break it in the end it’s just so horrific to think basically your own way of fixing a problem and then break it to them only to end them when they are already breaking down from the reality that’s happening
Is it just me or has this been uploaded before?
It has. Maybe it was reuploaded after being deleted for whatever reason
No
Original got hit with copyright claim so he re-edited
Yes it is.
@@sweettt321maybe now that it’s released on streaming he’s able to use better quality footage.
At this point, is there really a way to beat this entity for good? It seems unstoppable.
For the characters in universe no. If someone understands that it is the literal embodiment of there is nothing to fear but fear itself it can't do shit. Just like any horror movie, once the scare factor goes away, it's pointless
Trauma demon accidentally hooks onto a person with Psychopathy which ends up being the end for the beast. Also was Morris even a real person in the entire movie?
Morris was real in the bar meetup. After that she was far gone.
The problem with this is that the psychopath needs to have a trauma to be latched on. Psychopaths usually don’t understand what trauma is even when they have traumatic experiences
It's all good for the demon until it gets grafted to a psychopath
😂😂😂
How did I just realize first one had a-train and kutner while second had Hughie’s mom and taub lol
I really love how you take the time to appreciate the actors 🩷
The ending was kind of predictable but the film managed to linger on the tension in a fresh way where other films would cut.
It would be interesting to see the entity against a psychopath, it tries to scare them but they are unaffected and start laughing like the joker.
“Hahahah! Y-you are an actual demon, but nothing you do scares me! Hahahahahaha…”
Here’s what I’m thinking about the smile entity. Based off of what I know, it functions off of people’s trauma. The trauma needs to be spread, usually through the host unaliving themselves… then having someone watch the host do this… all to repeat the cycle. After all, these films have a subtle theme with suicide and its general effect of not just ending someone’s life but passing on their pain to someone else. However, the main scope of these films and the entity isn’t necessarily about the way these people die but more so about simply spreading trauma by any means. This is proven by the guy in the prison and Joel who did (or tried to) kill someone else while having another person watch. Though I have a feeling that the scope of the third film will dive even deeper into how the entity manipulates one’s (lack of) trauma. I mean Joel was able to just walk past his hallucinations due to his determination to his plan. I’m sure the next movie will show someone handling their trauma, and therefore the entity, better than the last victims. Not everyone is as isolated as rose or Skye. I definitely still expect the next movie to be consisted of mass unalivings of all kinds.
I'd really like the sister from the first film to come back in the third. She'll likely understand now that what her sister said to her was true, and I wonder if she'll try to help all the newly infected people in some way.
... The Smile Monster in the thumbnail is giving me heavy Resident Evil vibes.
Anyone else??
I'm going to lie, when Joel died, I laughed. Being so sudden and unexpected was what made it funny.
Wouldn’t it have been cool if the demon visited M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter’s character from ‘Trap’, Lady Raven? 😅 Like an amalgamation of the two movies…..
Hello. I’m a huge fan of you Niyat. Please do a video on Grave Encounters. Please. Have a great day. You produce great videos.
Great movie and it went in a direction that most sequels shy away from
i highly doubt i would’ve been able to sit thru the constant jumpscares of this movie so i greatly appreciate this video and the breakdown of the series/lore lol 🙏❤️
Pvssy
Imagine the ghost trying to haunt someone who just doesn’t care about anything anymore and actually gets excitement from the entity
Sounds like a cheesy low budget anime plot line .
@@sanato1301You'd be surprised what spite can do.
naomi scott seriously carried this movie on her fuckin back.
The second film feels like what they wanted the first film to be
My favourite horror film of the year. Naomi’s performance was perfect
It’s almost as if not every horror film needs a sequel.
What would happen if the current host self-deletes by themselves? With no witnesses, who will it transfer to?
I feel as if most people think she was was already in full hallucination for most of the movie. I think a major chunk of it was especially nearing the final act (at the hospital and after). I do feel as if morris was real when he was talking about how to beat it. The things he was mentioning just don’t seem like something the entity would pull out. I’m sure it had a way easier time taking out Skye due to her already severely deteriorated mental state. I don’t think it truly stuck until after the swarm of her dancers took her and had the arm enter her body. I don’t think there was really any way for her to beat this monster even with morris being real.
3:09 cardiac arrest for sure
Was not ready for that at 2 am
FINALLY LETS GOOO WEVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR SO LONG YEEEEEEEEEES
I fail to understand how smiling like that is scary or unsettling, it just looks goofy lol. The gore was amazing though
I really like these smile movies. I think because the cast and crew take this serious and the lead actresses have been phenomenal in these two entries. I’m excited to see there the series goes especially now that a crowd of about what 20000 people at that concert are cursed.
Ok i know its the wrong thing to foucs on. But im i wrong in saying that looks like the old cod at 16:30 or is it just cod MW2 2022s rust.
i thought the same thing and i honestly couldn’t tell 😭😭😭 i think its a newer cod because rust looks a little different and the hud looks different
@toxicfelony2505 im thinking so as well.
bone-chilling, spine-tingling, slow burning, genre defining gem ❤
The face at 3:10 is absolutely incredible
It had me paralyzed in the theatre, it’s so scary
having two people in my life go out but there own will:
i like this concept so much
So basically if you haven't seen it yet you just have to not go on the internet cause everybody will spoil it for you lmfao
It’s been out forever so it’s your fault atp
@@maverickbull1909 you people have no shame ...disgusting
I'd really like to hear your take on The Collector and The Collection
This series as really grown on me. I hope Morris was real and I wonder what will happen after this mass cursing.
Just watched it last night. Was an absolutely awesome movie. Main girl did a great job acting.
Morris was not real, Everything up to the point where she was standing in the mirror was all the entity puppeteering her body up to the concert, evidence to back this up is she is wearing the same outfit at the end when she was possessed.
I was wondering-what if the person infected by the entity dies by any other means than their own hand? Like, a murder? What happens? Is it passed on to the killer? Some random person if nobody else witnesses it?
I was waiting for this vid bro! I wanted to see your take on it cause the Smile Entity is a lot more powerful now!
Gotta question: does closing your eyes negate the “witness” thing?
Personally I was confused why Fregoli got possessed and not the gangster who saw the cop get run over. They could have still used that gangster if he was just another drug dealer. Since the cop ran into the road, that's technically a suicide just not an intentional one--maybe that's the difference. I don't know, the opening scene gave me more questions than answers but it was still a great watch.
Edit: Fewer jumpscares definitely would be my only note. I know it's because the character can't ever really be "alone" without having the shit scared out of them because they need to be in a constant state of agitation for the demon to do its thing, but I think a good alternative route to just having Fregoli or Skye herself pop up out of nowhere would be like: watching Entertainment Tonight and the host suddenly starts grinning and agitating Skye, she can't turn off the TV and eventually is forced to break it, which of course shattered glass is a trigger in this movie. OR there could be a picture frame of herself as a child that suddenly is seen doing the smile, and she tosses it across the room before her child self appears next to her. It would still be a jumpscare but it would be more impactful in context and not just "boo!"
The Cop was no longer affected or infected by the Demon when he was hit by the truck. If you watched the part 1 then you should understand why
@ ohhh okay that makes sense. I think so much was going on and it had been a while since I saw the first one that I forgot what the rules were exactly. Thank you.
I feel like we should get a prequel that shows one of the first ever victims
Maybe that thing should pay me a visit, you know for science, because I've kinda unlearned/forgotten how to laugh, even smiling became a rare thing.
And now that I think of it, maybe that thing shouldn't pay me a visit, it would probably get bored, even die.
Fantastic movie honestly! Saw it twice
Bro I love this movie , starting from the first into the second with that intro was fire . I just realized the girl who died at the end of the first one was shown on fire in the second one like wow . Those details were AMAZING
In my opinion a very strong sequel
I would pay Niyat to narrate my life. You have a nice voice, and I have enjoyed your vids for years now. Stay dope : )
I’ve never seen the first one, but I really liked Smile 2! Pleasantly surprised
My favorite movie is The Thing, for reference
Thanks for the video!
Yo that freezer scene with the eyes was wild
The Smile Entity feels like it's one of the monsters of Stephen King
cool i was waiting for your take. cheers
"Ugh, just get over it. Stop crying. Just go out and smile like nothing ever happened."
Have you reviewed (The Substance)