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From jack-o'-lanterns glowing on porches to costumes ranging from the whimsical to the gory, Halloween is a time of playful scares, childhood memories and, of course, candy.

That’s right, “Smile 2,” the follow-up to the surprising 2022 hit “Smile,” is bigger, gorier and even more bonkers than the first film, and it even has something interesting to say through those gritted-teeth grins.

And the fans, he says, always want to talk to him about the big moral questions of “Saw,” not the gory particulars.

“House of the Dragon” has big action scenes, gory deaths, nefarious plotting, steamy sex and, of course, glorious CGI dragons aplenty, but none of the characters are any fun at all.

As to the gory that was Rome, there are brawls, murders, mutilations, executions, death by CGI wild animal and multi-chariot pileups.