Universal Studios and Blumhouse have finally set aHappy Death Day 2release date, also unveiling the title for the horror sequel. The follow-up to the inventive 2017 film is officially calledHappy Death Day 2Uand will hit theaters on August 14, 2025. Yes indeed, theHappy Death Daysequel is a date movie! The film will be squaring off directly against 20th Century Fox’s newX-MenmovieDark Phoenixas well as the Warner Bros. comedyIsn’t It Romanticon Valentine’s weekend, so it’s a bit of a competitive debut date.
Christopher Landonreturned to directHappy Death Day 2, which also brings backJessica Rothein the lead role as a college student who gets murdered, only to find herself trapped in aGroundhog Day-like scenario where she keeps reliving the last day of her life over and over again until she finds the killer.
Rothe previously told Collider, before filming onHappy Death Day 2began, that the follow-upwould be in the vein ofBack to the Future:
“Chris has done this incredible thing where the sequel, the way he described it to me, elevates the movie from being a horror movie – and I wouldn’t even say it’s just a horror movie because it’s a horror, comedy, rom-com drama – into aBack to the Futuretype of genre film where the sequel joins us right from where we left off, it explains a lot of things in the first one that didn’t get explained, and it elevates everything. I was really pleased to know that we weren’t just gonna be pushing all the buttons that people loved the first time, over and over again, ‘cause I think that gets old.”
TheHappy Death Daysequel was shot on the downlow so we don’t know too much about it, but co-starIsrael Broussardis back alongside Rothe, withSuraj SharmaandSarah Yarkinserving as the newcomers in the cast. As a big fan of the fun and inventiveness of the first movie, I’m eager to check out this sequel.
