From a plot point of view, it’s also worth mentioning that it sounds like not much time will have passed between the end of the original Happy Death Day and the start of Happy Death Day 2.
Such a trope is not uncommon in the horror genre, as it is quite similar to how Halloween II’s opening scene directly lines up with the finale of John Carpenter’s original film.
Moreover, it has also been said that the sequel will take time to answer lingering questions from the first film and further explain the time loop phenomenon that has plagued Tree’s life.
Jessica Rothe has spoken out about the plot of the slasher follow-up and mentioned that it would directly follow the events of the sequel, leaving minimal gap between the stories in the vain of Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II.