Smile 2 doesn’t end in triumph: it’s a nightmarish, screaming surrender to a higher power with thousands of witnesses. It’s terribly grisly, and we spoke to Naomi Scott about what it means.

The Mist, Drag Me to Hell, The Wicker Man, Eden Lake and The Descent; these are five of best horror movies of all time, and they all have one thing in common: they have some of the most poignant endings not only in their genre, but in all of cinema.

End of Smile 2 belongs to this echelon, a sobering subset of horror that doesn’t reward you for your fear or relieve your tension – it just twists the knife before you fall into the cold sight of the night, leaving you grappling with the memory of what you just saw until it fades (and, inevitably, takes over you like a chill).

Especially because it looks like Skye Riley, the sequel’s embattled popstar, might actually win. She flees the hospital after the entity makes her murder her mother and finds Morris, her mysterious expert on the entity, who has a brilliant but frightening idea: if he kills her, the entity will cease to exist because she will no longer have power. aim.

It doesn’t matter, because he will revive her after a few minutes, just enough time to get rid of the monster.

Is everyone cursed at the end of Smile 2?

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Here is a question though. What if Morris wasn’t real? What if he was just an entity all along, preying on Skye? Speaking to Dexerto, Scott said she had no theories about Morris. “It’s so interesting when people ask me objective questions about the film itself. It’s hard for me to see this as just someone consuming the story,” she said.

“He’s real to Skye, that’s all that matters to me.”

Regardless, it doesn’t work. Skye tries to use Morris’ serum to inject herself and stop the monster as it tries to attack her, but it soon becomes clear that it was all a hallucination. She wakes up in Madison Square Garden, lucid enough to see that she did not murder her mother, before the entity opens its mouth and crawls inside.

Skye stands up with a possessed, wide-eyed smile and kills herself in front of everyone in the arena (more specifically, she plunges her mic into her eyes).

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Does this mean the entire crowd is cursed, doomed to commit suicide in various grotesque ways? “I mean, technically, yes…I guess the mob, in terms of the rules of the entity itself, would have the smile curse,” she said.

Scott definitely has his “own questions and thoughts” about the film’s ending, but as for what might happen in Smile 3, that’s “way above (his) pay grade.”

“I just feel like my ideas wouldn’t be as good as other people’s.” Do you see what I mean? I think I’d just like to be surprised…and I think it has to be something completely new, and I feel like it’s leading to something completely different that we haven’t seen.

“But again, this is not my creative baby to bring into the world. So I think I’ll leave that to whoever takes over.

Parker Finn, the director of both Smile films, said there were “a lot of really exciting places (the series) could go from here.”

“I love this idea that potential future iterations of Smile could get bigger and more derailed and even crazier and more disjointed,” he said. said The Hollywood Reporter.

“But, for me, what’s important about Smile is that there’s a real human, character-driven, intimate nature to the storytelling. So even though the world is getting a lot bigger, I would like to make sure that the stories we tell in it still have a huge impact on a human level.

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