Matchup of the Day: Smile 2 vs Cuckoo

At this time we convey you Smile 2 and Cuckoo. What have they got in widespread? (That’s, except for a 2024 launch yr.) Properly, let’s test it out!

The characters in each movies are musicians. In Smile 2, the protagonist, Skye Riley, is a well-known pop performer. She has recovered from a cocaine-induced automotive accident the place her boyfriend was killed and is making ready for a brand new live performance tour. She suffers from again ache because of the accident. One night time, she goes to see her previous drug supplier as a way to purchase some Vicodin. He behaves erratically, saying that he’s experiencing “scary, haunted home shit.” He then proceeds to pulverize his face with a health club weight, all of the whereas smiling creepily. Quickly after, Skye begins to see extra folks with creepy smiles that will or will not be actual.

Gretchen, the protagonist in in Cuckoo, is a seventeen-year-old woman who goes to dwell along with her father and mute half-sister within the Bavarian Alps. She performs bass in a band, and the significance of music within the movie is defined on this Los Angeles Instances article interviewing the director, Tilman Singer. When Gretchen takes a job as a entrance desk clerk at a close-by resort run by a household pal, she begins to see ladies vomiting and behaving oddly. She can be pursued one night time whereas driving her bicycle residence by strange-looking lady. Gretchen turns into fed up with the entire scenario and longs to return to America along with her mom. Gretchen meets a French lady on the resort and leaves along with her. The ladies who pursued Gretchen exhibits up within the street, inflicting the 2 to swerve and crash.

Cuckoo is a extra difficult movie to dig into than Smile 2. Whereas the supernatural antagonist isn’t completely defined in Smile 2, it’s not as bizarre because the creature in Cuckoo. The girl who brought about Gretchen’s automotive accident is known as a “Homo cuculidae“. Although the creature is a humanoid, it additionally has the power to implant its eggs into ladies so they may incubate its offspring. The creature is much like a cuckoo hen in that cuckoos lay their eggs in different birds’ nests, leaving them to be raised the hen whereas the cuckoo takes off. The aforementioned household pal, Herr König, is fascinated by Homo cuculidae and makes it his mission to assist the creatures reproduce, since they’re simply following their instincts.

Whereas the Homo cuculidae and König are pushed to breed, the entity in Smile 2 seeks to drive its goal insane to the purpose of suicide. Whoever witnesses the act of suicide is then focused for a similar destiny. The entity desires to homicide and torment. What makes the creatures in each movies considerably related is that they each can distort actuality. The Homo cuculidae are able to emitting a piercing sound from their mouths that causes time to repeat itself in short increments, disorienting their sufferer. The entity in Smile 2 causes horrific hallucinations which are not possible to separate from actuality. So the latter entity is significantly extra evil and highly effective.

The endings of the movies are totally different, nonetheless. For anybody who has seen the unique Smile and never the sequel, think about an ending many, many occasions extra terrifying in its implications (not that one must see the unique to understand the sequel). Cuckoos has a extra hopeful conclusion.