10 Best Characters From 2024 Horror Movies
5. Skye Riley - Smile 2
Despite following a similar narrative trajectory to its predecessor, Smile 2 felt bigger in just about every possible way, aided by the decision to shift the focus from a doomed therapist to a doomed pop star.
Enter Skye Riley (Naomi Scott), a troubled Taylor Swift-esque singer struggling to prevail over both crippling addiction issues and past trauma, making her a ripe target for the series' focal trauma demon.
Take a bow, Naomi Scott, for delivering one of the most nerve-shreddingly committed performances in any horror movie this decade - a truly sublime feat of acting that so superbly conveys the utter mental and physical anguish that Skye is subjected to by the demon.
Between Parker Finn's daring filmmaking and Scott's outstanding performance, Skye is an uncommonly well-rounded, richly rendered horror movie protagonist - one whose survival we quickly become invested in even though the outcome of her ordeal seems all too inevitable.