Smile 2 ending spoilers: Does Skye pass on the curse?

The film, which picks up after the events of Smile, is concerned with the same brutal curse that was introduced in the original, which sees the inflicted person possessed by a demonic entity that feeds off its victims’ trauma.

We follow new character Sky Riley (Naomi Scott), a global pop sensation whose plans to set off on a new world tour are derailed when she finds herself in the clutches of this evil entity.

After seven days, the entity causes its victim to sinisterly smile before taking their own lives. But can Skye beat the curse?

Seen the film and need a recap of the closing moments and what it means for the future of the franchise? Read on to have the Smile ending explained.

Smile 2 ending explained: What happened to Skye?

For a while it looks like Skye might have found a way to vanquish the curse – thanks to the efforts of a nurse named Morris (Peter Jacobson). Earlier, he had tracked her down and suggested that stopping her heart and then resuscitating her will likely kill the entity, as it cannot continue to survive without a host.

Skye initially seemed very reluctant to go ahead with this procedure, but when things continue to spiral out of control – culminating in her fatally stabbing her mother (Rosemarie DeWitt) after an argument at the wellness retreat she's been checked into – she escapes and steals a car, driving it to the abandoned Pizza Hut Morris had told her to meet at. (The journey itself is not without its difficulties, thanks to the entity impersonating her best friend Gemma – played by Dylan Gelula – and attempting to sabotage things).

At the Pizza Hut, Skye follows Morris's instructions to step into a walk-in freezer where she is to inject herself with the syringe that will stop her heart. She is able to apply the syringe despite the entity doing its best to stop her... but it's no good. The entity reveals she is still hallucinating and the next thing we know Skye has woken up on stage at Madison Square Garden, where she is about to perform the first show of her tour.

Looking out at the audience, it's revealed that her mother is actually still alive, and therefore everything that had happened in recent days had all been a hallucination. More dramatic still, the entity now takes its true shape and possesses Skye completely, causing her to finally succumb to the curse and end her life.

And the worst thing about this? The incident was playing out on the big screens around the arena, meaning that thousands of spectators were watching. Given what we know about how the curse works and spreads, that's certainly not great news.

"It felt like the most horrifying thing I could possibly do was have her on stage, finally taken over by the Smile in front of 20,000 screaming fans," director Parker Finn said of the ending in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly.

"There's a question of, is it being live-streamed? How big could it go? It felt intoxicating to me. I loved this feeling and power of the Smile, and this idea of the commentary on celebrity platform and influence on the public. She's potentially passing this on, and the idea of, because of her platform and celebrity, how many people that can reach."

So if we get a Smile 3, it looks like everything will be happening on an even bigger scale...

Who was Morris in Smile 2 and was he real?

Morris is an ER nurse played by Peter Jacobson that tries to help Skye in Smile 2.

As he tells Skye, he is the brother of someone who was previously a victim of the smile entity, which he has been tracking ever since.

One of the biggest questions surrounding the character in the film is whether he’s a real person.

While some viewers believe he is real, other fan theories, which point out that his messages always arrive when Sky was just about to call Gemma, suggest he is a product of Skye’s hallucination...

Smile 2 is now showing in UK cinemas. Smile is now streaming on Netflix – sign up from £4.99 a month. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream.

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