Parker Finn follows his surprise 2022 hit about a malevolent spirit that jumps hosts via a diabolical grin, this time infecting a troubled pop star with a ton of trauma to feed on.

Following the impressive worldwide box office performance of Smile in 2022, and the enduring popularity of the supernatural shocker amongst genre fans, director Parker Finn’s sequel does everything a horror follow-up should,

Writer-Director Parker Finn's Smile 2 is one of the best theater horror experiences of the year, thanks to its darkness and its absurdity. The post REVIEW: ‘Smile 2’ Is The Sequel I Didn’t Know I Needed appeared first on But Why Tho?

Smile 2 is entertaining. Certainly, dont expect the best commentary on mental health issues, but be ready for some jump-scare fun.

In an early scene in “Smile 2,” the fictional pop superstar Skye Riley is in her drug dealer’s apartment. “Do you believe in weird stuff?” he asks her, between doing

"Smile 2" is a flash-cut horror parable, but the story it's telling is that pop fame makes you crazy. Though the movie is hardly subtle, Parker Finn has become a clever enough filmmaker to make reality feel like a hallucination and hallucinations feel like reality.

Say cheese. Two years ago, Parker Finn scared the living daylights out of audiences with his hit horror movie Smile. A feature film debut grossing $217.4 million on a $17 million budget? Not bad at all.

But, as we learned from a certain 2022 flick, that’s not always a good thing, and now, Parker Finn is back with the sequel Smile 2, which is set to hit theaters on October 18. The trailer promises gnarly deaths and plenty of ghastly grinning,

Naomi Scott had no idea what she was in for. It was several years after her breakout performance as Jasmine in 2019’s Aladdin and she had just received a script by director Parker Finn about a new character he had created – a tortured pop star named Skye Riley.