The first photo taken in the sequel causes a young boy to have an extremely sharp carpenter's nail jammed through his foot.
The scariest photos of all in the Say Cheese and Die series are the two that cause the main plot of this book. The first is a negative of Shari, which seems OK, but the second is of a morbidly obese (at least in the four-hundred pound range—and remember, this is a preteen boy) Greg. Unlike the previous book, where the horrible accidents the camera bestowed happened in a single instant, this book stretches out Greg and Shari's fates, with the former growing bigger with every passing minute and the latter losing weight at an alarming rate. By the time the book reaches its climax, Greg has become so huge that he can't walk, and Shari has grown so weak and thin that she can barely speak. Now, imagine being Greg and Shari's parents, and watching these inexplicable events happen to your own children. And there's nothing you can do to stop it.
Two things make this worse. The first is that Greg is treated to really nasty taunts and jokes about his weight by both his classmates and his cruel teacher Mr. Saur on the first day of his weight gain. By the second day, even the meanest kids in class realize that something is terribly wrong with Greg, but Mr. Saur keeps mocking him. The second is that it's implied that the camera itself causes the horrible accidents its photos predict... which means that it chose to bestow slow, painful deaths on Greg and Shari. In other words, it actually knows that they tried to destroy it, and it's not happy with them.
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The story isn't much lighter than the book version in the horror department. Greg starts ballooning up and Shari is literally just wasting away. Greg manages to quickly figure out the solution: having his older brother (who conveniently works at a photo shop, as this was in the 90's when digital cameras weren't the norm yet) switch the negatives on the two photos... But as he goes to do them, Greg and Shari are on their last legs and Greg starts ballooning to the point where he'll likely explode from the internal force. And, while we don't see all of Shari's body, we do see that her hand is becoming skeletal. And this all as Greg is yelling for his brother to hurry. Just... yeesh.
Greg's "fat makeup" doesn't help matters. It gives him jowls and makes his neck completely disappear, making it look as if his skin is melting right off his face.
