Smile 2 scared in theaters almost three weeks ago, but fans of the movie – or Smile curious — you can now watch the first seven minutes of the movie online.
Paramount Pictures recently posted the opening minutes of the film on a website for anyone over 18 to watch, provided they smile into their phone or laptop camera for the entire seven minutes. The video stops if the technology used senses that the viewer has stopped smiling, forcing interested audience members to participate in the horror franchise’s signature facial expression to see the first scene of the film.
When audience members stop laughing, the screen flashes red and finally fades to black, at which point a message appears on the screen: “Keep laughing.”
Yes, that’s Jack Nicholson’s son Ray channeling his father’s creepy grin in Smile 2
“Smile 2” poster.
Paramount Pictures
Smile 2 is the sequel to the 2022 horror hit Smile. The films feature a demon that torments characters by making them see people around them with terrifying smiles on their faces.
The new film stars Naomi Scott as a pop star named Skye Riley, who “begins to experience increasingly terrifying and unexplained events” as she embarks on a world tour, according to Paramount Pictures’ official synopsis. Lukas Gage, Rosemarie DeWitt, Dylan Gelula, Ray Nicholson and Raúl Castillo also star, with Kyle Gallner as the first lone character to appear in the sequel.
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The Smile films stem from an original concept created by writer-director Parker Finn, who has already teased the potential for a third installment in the future. Smile and Smile 2 are Finn’s first two films as director and screenwriter; he launched the concept with a 2020 short film titled Laura didn’t sleep.
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Ray Nicholson in the movie ‘Smile 2’.
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures
“There are some ideas that I think are very exciting,” Finn said SFX magazine of the potential future of the series in September.
He added: “I think it’s really fun to imagine the lineage Smile movies where each one gets more off the rails than the last. What is really interesting Smile is that you can find yourself in different stories, different characters, different worlds.”
Smile 2 it’s in theaters now.
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