Smile 2’s Twisted Ending Means Smile 3 Must Solve an Impossible Problem

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Smile 2

Although Smile 2The twist ending is ingenious, but it also creates a big problem for Smile 3. Smile 2 manages to take director Parker Finn’s 2022 hit and expand on the twisty psychological horror in a number of ways. While Smile focused on a mental health professional who was cursed after witnessing the death of her patient, Smile 2 centers on Naomi Scott’s glamorous pop star Skye Riley as she battles the franchise’s demonic villain. Smile 2Skye is based on real-life musicians, but fortunately her ultimate fate is not shared by any stars in the entertainment industry.

In Smile 2At the end of, Skype realizes that she has been trapped in an exhausting hallucination for an almost unknowable period of time as the demonic entity wears down her defenses. Unable to stop the demon any longer, she finally succumbs to the monster while on stage at a concert. Smile 2The twist ending should have been predictable, as viewers guessed the sequence would end with an entire show’s worth of witnesses being cursed when Smile 2The premise was first announced. However, Finn’s misdirections manage to make the twist surprising, and it’s a genuinely dark shock when Skye dies on stage.

Smile 2 Smile 3 Final Forces to Explain What Happens to Multiple Witnesses

Thousands of viewers watch Naomi Scott’s Skye Riley die

However, the killer ending of Finn’s sequel left the Smile franchise in a complicated position. The question posed by Smile 2The ending of is whether all the witnesses are cursed simultaneously or notand it is almost impossible to find a satisfactory answer. Presumably, all the witnesses saw Skye die, meaning they were all cursed at the same time. However, that would be pandemonium. Furthermore, the sudden onslaught of mass deaths could easily be attributed to the concert in Smile 3the story. While Smile 2The monster is a little different from the original film, it seems to work in the same way.

THE Smile The demon wears down his victims in a matter of days, subjecting them to increasingly elaborate hallucinations that eventually lead them to take their own lives. However, until now, the demon has done this one victim at a time. The pattern is so consistent that characters in both films could track the demon’s progress by looking back at the kill records. The end of the concert Smile 2 leaves the demon with countless potential victims, but Smile 3The insular story of can’t focus on all of them at once. What does the Smile films so scary is their singular perspective.

Why Smile 3 having multiple victims would be so problematic

The Smile franchise formula needs a singular focus to be successful

THE Smile films need to focus on a victim since they take place inside their heroes’ heads. Smile 2 killed off Joel early, so the sequel had a new perspective, but your sequel can’t be about thousands of people at once. In fact, an ending similar to Smile 2The twist ending of already killed another iconic horror franchise in 2017 Rings I didn’t know how to follow his similar turn of events. This reboot ended with the cursed video going viral, and despite its box office success, it never received a sequel. Now, Smile 3 must find a way to Smile 2 to avoid the same fate.