Park Finn's 2022 film Smile had a semi-humanoid monster that fed on trauma, and drove its hosts to the edge of insanity till they killed themselves in grotesque ways in front of a witness. For the final act, their faces were plastered with a twisted grin. Smile was a smash success, elevated by Finn's slow, festering screenplay. In Smile 2, he gets darker, deeper and more nihilistic.
Naomi Scott plays Skye Riley, a pop-star returning to the stage after a year-long hiatus following a car accident that kills her boyfriend (Ray Nicholson) and leaves her with a long scar on her torso....