The Rage: Carrie 2

Year: 1999

Director: Katt Shea

Written by: Rafael Moreu

Threat: Children

Weapon of Choice: Spear Gun

Based upon: novel - Carrie - Stephen King

IMDb page: IMDb link

      The Rage: Carrie 2

Other movies in this series:
Carrie

The tyranist's thoughts
If there's one thing that these movies teach me it is that teenagers (and sometimes little kids) can be bastards. When this movie came out I wasn't sure why they needed a sequel to Carrie, but it looked kind of cool. At the very least, I found Emily Heigl about sixty times as attractive as Sissy Spacek.
So it is years later. Sue Snell is all grown up now and works as a counselor at the new high school. Rachel (Carrie White's half-sister that no one knows about) is a pretty well adjusted but not popular teen at the school. Then her best friend (played by a personal favourite, Mena Suvari) kills herself over a boy (played by universal dickhead, Zachary Ty Bryan). Rachel's rage starts to manifest itself as telekinetic phenomena, she falls in love and is fallen in love with, and the teenagers decide to make her life hell.
I bet you know how it ends.
There were a few differences from the first, like Rachel being well-adjusted instead of completely lost in the world, but really it is an identical plot. They do have better effects than the first one, but all in all it is still an inferior film. Not out and out bad, just inferior to the first one. I really liked the ending too. Both movies had great endings that I wasn't expecting.
Watching both films back to back makes a fun little mini-marathon and is far better than a lot of other series I can think of. If you liked the first one, give this one a chance. It is different enough that there will probably be many who consider it much too inferior, but I say give it a chance. Who really wanted to see exactly the same film anyway?

Total Skulls: 8

Sequel skull
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing skull
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex skull
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut skull
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise skull
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence skull
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading skull
Blood fountain skull
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?