There's no escaping the creepy smiles from the Smile franchise. Before the new horror sequel Smile 2 scares its way into theaters, people sporting haunting grimaces are popping up at Major League ...

DALLAS — A Friday night out in Deep Ellum took a creepy twist. In a video shared on X, five people were seen standing motionless with a sinister smile in the windows of a Dallas hotel in Deep Ellum.

Repeat for as many highly literalized metaphors for trauma as you can manage. Per Variety, the new Smile movie will land in the midst of next year’s spooky season, on October 18, 2024.

A creepy smile is, as you might expect, the signature feature of the entity. While the premise of the second film seems to be much different than the first, the horror side of it will likely call ...

Smile was an instant success when it was released in 2022 in part to its viral marketing campaign. READ MORE: Who Were Those Creepy Smiling People at Friday Night’s MLB Games?

The first Smile movie was a surprise horror hit back in 2022, landing big at the box office and earning plenty of fans. Now, writer-director Parker Finn has returned with the bigger, bolder Smile 2.

(Facebook) Coulrophobes — people who have developed a phobia of clowns — shiver at the sight of an increasing number of smiling spectres popping up on social media.

As Freud posited long ago, the “uncanny” is something that is not a live person but yet resembles a person. He used “wax-work figures, artificial dolls and automatons” as examples.