‘Happy Death Day 2U’ Trailer: Get Ready To Scream Again On Valentine’s Day

What’s your most anticipated movie of 2019? I’m willing to bet it’s probably not “Happy Death Day 2U,” the sequel to the surprise Blumhouse horror “Happy Death Day.” That said, the original was a huge, unexpected hit and there’s guaranteed to be a big swath of audiences that care.

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Released in October of 2017, there wasn’t a lot of enormous expectations for slasher film “Happy Death Day” by director Christopher Landon (“Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones,” “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse”), but perhaps given the filmmaker’s past films there was a notion, a movie like this could make a buck. Make a buck it did, $122 million worldwide off a tiny $4.8 million budget; that’s a handsome little profit.

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Best known for her lead role in the 2016 MTV television series “Mary + Jane,” the film’s star Jessica Rothe returns for the sequel that is sure to entice, at the very least, the first-weekend horror crowd. Here’s the official synopsis:

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Jessica Rothe leads the returning cast of HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U, the follow-up to Blumhouse’s (Split, Get Out, The Purge series) surprise 2017 smash hit of riveting, repeating twists and comic turns.  This time, our hero Tree Gelbman (Rothe) discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.

Jason Blum once again produces and Christopher Landon returns to write and direct this next chapter, while Happy Death Day executive producers Angela Mancuso and John Baldecchi are newly joined by EP Samson Mucke (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse).

“Happy Death Day 2U” lands in theaters February 14, 2019