The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) User Reviews

The problem of Kids being Bullied at Schools

[linyuwei1 · 5/10 · 20 August 2006]

This is a forgettable but offbeat teenage film. The visual effect is certainly better than the first Carrie (1976). The flashback of Carrie 1 and the return of Amy Irving starring as Sue Snell again also help.

Apart from the film itself per se, having seen Carrie and Carrie 2, I can't stop thinking why the problem of kids bullying with each other continues to be a problem in schools. In fact, this problem is not only between school kids, but also between grown ups in society. What's wrong with our society? What happened in the film is no more worse than the real event 'Columbine High School Massacre' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre). When are we going to solve this problem?

Perhaps showing this film to kids will make them understand how bad if they treat their mates badly.

"It's her doing it!"

[Smells_Like_Cheese · 5/10 · 20 November 2003]

Carrie is the ultimate story of high school hell and the moment that you think that it's cool to pick on the nerd because they seem harmless, not so much, they might have telekinetic powers that will chop your head off. Carrie was made into a movie in 1976 and was a major breakthrough being the first real modern horror film with teenagers. It had great special effects, terrific actors and was absolutely scary! Over 2 decades later came The Rage: Carrie 2, the sequel. Sad if you really think about it as Carrie is a great horror movie that you were glad wasn't tarnished by the stream of sequels like most slasher movies. But I figured it's not a totally bad idea to keep the story alive as bullies and those they pick on will never go away. In fact as the years go on, it seems bullying gets worse and worse, so The Rage seemed like it could be a good fit into what's going on in today's schools with Columbine and other school shootings.

Rachel talks with her friend Lisa, who has lost her virginity to Eric, a football player. The football players talk about Lisa; they have a game where they sleep with girls and receive points. After Eric rejects her, Lisa commits suicide, jumping from the school's roof. The event triggers Rachel's ability, causing the lockers in the school to open. School counselor Sue Snell talks with Rachel about Lisa. The discussion upsets Rachel and one of Sue's mugs crashes to the floor. Sue visits Rachel's mother, learning that Rachel and Carrie share the same father. Later on, one of the jocks, Jesse, takes a liking to Rachel, but due to his friends, they might tap into something that Rachel can't control and leads to one hell of a party.

The Rage isn't actually a bad movie, it is a terrific update on this terrifying story. However, I was really displeased with the make up effects. The whole thing with the veins was scary to me and didn't add any effect. Emily Bergl did a good job playing Rachel, you felt her alienation from her classmates but that she also didn't mind being different. I liked that she denied her powers, that maybe it's a trick of her mind. But the love story between her and Jason London didn't work for me, not because of the chemistry which I didn't feel, but because they are supposed to be young teenagers and how they "fall in love" and so quickly was unbelievable. At least just leave the love part out of it, it would have been fine. I would say that The Rage is a harmless horror movie, it's enjoyable over all with some cool kills. The effects aren't too over the top and work, it's just a flawed film like most horror sequels. It just couldn't hold a candle up to the original, but that's OK, I don't know if we would even want it that way.

5/10

actually not a bad sequel

[abattoir · 12 March 2000]

The words "Stephen King" and "Sequel" usually make the skin crawl, but The Rage: Carrie 2 isn't all bad.

Question: does everyone in movies have to be so pretty? In this film we are asked to believe that Emily Bergl and Mena Suvari are ugly, just as Rachel Leigh Cook was supposedly plain Jane in "She's All That". Please! I thought Bergl was beautiful, but I have a soft spot for girls with a dark side. On the other hand, the leader of the jocks who ostensibly got all the chicks looked like Ethan Hawke's redneck cousin. These guys are such misogynistic pricks that you can't wait for them to die. The scariest thing about this movie is the knowledge that jocks like that exist, thinkng they are entitled to everything thy want because they can throw a ball.

Rage: The Feeling One Gets After Shelling Out Money For This Horrible Film!

[doughboy-5 · 2/10 · 9 April 1999]

Following up the 1970s classic horror film Carrie with this offering, is like Ford following the Mustang with the Edsel. This film was horrendous in every detail. It would have been titled Beverly Hill 90210 meets Mystery Science Theater 3000, but both of those shows far exceed this tripe. This film was scarcely a horror film. I timed about 3 minutes of gore and 90 minutes of lame high school hazing and ritual. Wow, what a surprise, Carrie's weird friend commits suicide! Wow, Carrie misconstrues her love interests affections! Wow, the in-crowd sets up Carrie! Wow, the jocks have a sexual scoring contest! What this film needed was way more action and far less tired teen cliches. This film is totally unviewable.

Horrible Sequel

[Rusty-50 · 1/10 · 24 March 2000]

contains SPOILERS!!!!!



I went to this film hoping for it to be at least a little bit as good as the original Carrie. What I got was a terrible film that I will never watch again. My huge complaint with this whole film is the fact that Amy Irving's character Sue was wasted in this film. She was just there and served no real purpose except a gory kill. I was very disappointed when Sue was killed off. Aside from that, the movie was just too slow up till the end. I was actually bored in the theater till the party scene at the end. I give it 1 out of 10.

"Carrie" forth the good and so-so news

[lee_eisenberg · 7/10 · 4 March 2007]

Admittedly, "The Rage: Carrie 2" can't equal the quality established by its predecessor. But it's better than I expected it to be. Portraying an outcast high school student (Emily Bergl) discovering that she has telekinetic powers - don't worry; it gets explained - and using them to get revenge on her tormentors, it mostly repeats everything from the original. But the good aspect comes from how they set up some scenes and shock you (I really liked the shattering ball). Finally, the party at the end just might make your blood freeze.

Overall, this is a movie worth seeing, if only once. Of course, you'll have to see the original first, so as to understand everything that happens in this one. Also starring Amy Irving and Mena Suvari (right before she played Kevin Spacey's sexual fantasy in "American Beauty").

Rip-Off: Carrie 2

[JAW · 1/10 · 13 March 1999]

To my horror, not only does this movie rip-off the plot from the first "Carrie", this lackluster sequel steals from other teen movies as well. There's an abusive football coach that only wants to win (Varsity Blues), issues of sex and cruelty are dealt with (Cruel Intentions), and our heroine goes to a big party in a slinky red dress (She's All That). The acting stunk. Emily Bergl did a poor imitation of a faux-angst grunge chick. Zachery Ty Bryan didn't come across as a "bad boy" and Rachael Blanchard acting as if she were still in a "Clueless" episode. The gore was WAY overdone and implausible (How could CDs kill someone?). The plot had many holes (Would Rachael really hang around people who indirectly caused her friend's death?) Add gratuitous male nudity and you got a cinematic train wreck. This movie insults the name Carrie.

Elvis was her date....

[FlashCallahan · 7/10 · 5 November 2011]

After the suicide of her only friend, Rachel has never felt more on the outside.

The one person who reached out to her, Jessie, also happens to be part of the popular crowd that lives to torment outsiders like her.

But Rachel has something else that separates her from the rest, a secret amazing ability to move things with her mind.

Sue Snell, the only survivor of Carrie White's rampage twenty-two years ago, may hold the key to helping Rachel come to terms with her awesome, but unwanted power.

But as Rachel slowly learns to trust, a terrible trap is being laid for her. And making her angry could prove to be fatal...

Take away the flashbacks and any reference to the original, then more people would have seen this, and i think the critics would have been a little fairer, because this isn't a bad movie.

It pretty much traces the same premise of the original, but giving it an 'emo/goth/indie' edge to attract the more 'cooler' people (a lot of music is talked about in this).

And it is reminisce of the high school movies of that year (she'sall that/The Faculty) all the characters of those movies are similar, and the leading actress hides a secret, and they have a same feel to them.

Must be the lighting or the fashion.

Bergl is great as Racheal, and this leads me to say again, why was it called Carrie 2? I'm guessing Raging Racheal didn't have the same ring.

Irving pops up as the person to fill in all the plot holes and London plays the love interest.

But this wouldn't be Carrie without the film living up to it's subtitle in the final act. It's gory and very graphic, and one poor guy loses his crown jewels to great effect.

There's the token big shock scare at the end, which you can see coming, but still makes you jump, and after you have seen this, expecting dirge, you say to yourself 'that wasn't that bad actually, it was quite good'.

So not brilliant, just a pleasant surprise.

Torments the audience

[moonspinner55 · 1/10 · 23 August 2001]

Although not a masterpiece, the original "Carrie" from 1976 has held up over time because it had Brian De Palma behind it, a good director who understood kids' behavior and how they relate to one another (and also how adults try to relate to kids just to fit in for the moment). This trashy sequel does have Katt Shea directing (who did fairly good work with "Poison Ivy"), but gives her nothing to work with. It actually has the gall to try and connect the two films (here, Emily Bergl plays Carrie's half-sister!). Of course she is taunted and humiliated, and of course she pulls out all the stops. Lousy production, poor editing and--most especially--bad writing leaves Shea and an adequate cast eating dust. * from ****

All around great horror film!

[macgill3-1 · 9/10 · 3 February 2006]

Katt Shea is a brilliant director. She has a way of making even the goriest, disturbing and often mundane things look beautiful and interesting. Katt's style is hypnotic but at the same time she uses this to her advantage. The scary parts are that much more jarring when they do happen because she rips you out of a trance!! I'm not the type to get scared in films but I must admit I jumped a few times! There's no director that can make a woman falling off a building look more glamorous than Katt Shea! I didn't expect to enjoy this film as much as I did. The script didn't have the greatest/most realistic dialog or serious character development but it was campy fun! However, I found the character of Rachael much more realistic than the original Carrie. I thought it was tremendously well cast. Moreover the set decoration was very clever and added a deeper understanding of the characters. Bonus points for having Danny B. Harvey and Billie Holiday music in it! It's hard for a sequel to really be taken seriously because people get so damn nostalgic for the first- but you should really check this one out! I actually enjoyed it more than the first Carrie. The Rage: Carrie 2 is highly entertaining!!

Weird!

[GOWBTW · 7/10 · 25 April 2005]

The long awaited sequel to Carrie? Anything is possible. The Rage: Carrie 2 was mostly the weirdest thing I've ever saw. Knowing what Carrie started and Rachel left off. It was fair enough to see one of the survivors of Carrie's wrath working at the new high school. And a new outcast Rachel(Emily Bergl) whose friend commits suicide at the school. This character didn't quite fit in with her foster family. Because her mother is a nutshell. And the jocks were the real heels of the movie. The plot kinda mirrors the first movie, but unlike the first "Carrie" with Sissy Spacek, Emily Bergl's Rachel was meaner looking. And there was no blood spatter in this one. Although RACHEL'S WRATH was much MUCH worse than Carrie's. Her tattoo comes alive, her powers is unleashed and everyone is in deep trouble, including the last survivor of the first movie. She really defined the term "pokerface". CDs and flying glass were effective on everyone who crossed and deceived her. Rachel was indeed deadlier than Carrie. But one question left me to wonder, did she perish? Only time will tell. This movie was weird compared to the first, and I out of all people would think twice on making her mad! Rating 2.5 out 5 stars.

Do yourself a favour, rent a video instead.

[INGen · 1/10 · 13 August 1999]

One of the scariest movies I have ever seen was Carrie (the first one!). Now, as with other movies, they have totally ruined the Carrie franchise with The Rage: Carrie 2. From the beginnning, the movie plods along like geriatics in a beat-up van. There are hardly any scares and this movie is chock-full of all the various high-school sterotypes (i.e. the football jock, the bitchy cheer-leader, the followers and of course the black nailpolish wearing misfits). Another sad thing about this show is that you know what's going to happen the moment you see the opening credits. Sure, sure, girl gets humilated thourghly and then turns into crazed psychic murderer...yawn...

Been there. Done that.

Even the actors look like they were forced into doing this movie. Emily Bergl is as frightening as a cabbage patch doll while Jack London... let's just say i didn't pay to see wood act. Apart from the actors, the flasbacks serve more to irritate than to link up with the first movie.

Bottom line, If you can beam objects around like Carrie, then for the love of God beam yourself out of that theatre......

Will I ever learn?

[SILENCEikillyou · 6 July 2002]

What 'will I ever learn'? Never judge a book by its cover, a film by its trailer, a story by the 'critics'. Well, some of them anyway.

The trailer to this movie did NOT appeal to me. Some of the critics trashed it. Even the box to the actual tape/DVD looked 'cookie-cutter' to the first Carrie. I hate redone classics, therefore, I avoided this movie like the plague for the longest time. Indeed, I ran the opposite direction when this movie came near me. Well, maybe thats going a bit far.

LOW AND BEHOLD!! Last night (7/5/2002) USA network showed this movie, and nothing else was on. I had a bottle of Jose Quervo on hand; just in case. I sat down and got ready to laugh at, tear apart and rag on this flick. After all, its my job as a film buff to see even the 'bad' films in order to better appreciate the 'good'.

I was utterly surprised by this film. There was a character played by Mena Suvari... a pleasant surprise to me- that I thought surely would be the 'new and improved Carrie'. Oops, now I've gone too far. ANYWAY! I actually enjoyed this film. I felt very bad for the character's treatment by others, as well as, herself.

That's all I'll say on the content of the movie since there may be those out there who've avoided this film like I did. DON'T!! This movie put me in my place on pre-judging films. I felt entertained and the piece was well-done. I can't think of anything wrong with this movie; right now. Perhaps, it was a bit on the teen-film stereotypical side, but I just really enjoyed watching this film. Thank you for your time o<;O) Skot

What part of this was scary? or thrilling?

[Ysman · 1/10 · 28 April 2000]

The only partially amusing portion of this film was the last 15 minutes when the new Carrie started killing her classmates. This sequel had none of the inventiveness or spookiness of the the first film. Nothing was scary about this film except how painfully boring and out of touch the movie was. Like Sam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea, I am sure Mena Suvari was more than glad to exit the film early. In the period of particularly bad teen horror films, Carrie 2 out does them all.

BETTER THAN THE FIRST!!

[psycho_153 · 5/10 · 23 December 1999]

carrie 2 another boring depressing movie. Like the first the first 40 minutes nothing happens and than an outburst of violence. Who wants to see a guy's penis being ripped of by a spear and stuck on his leg. I did enjoy it better than the first one since it sucked. Emily Bergl plays Rachel 23 years after Carrie destroyed her Prom. Amy Irving is in Carrie 2 as the only surviver from the first movie. If you like dark depressing films give this one a go.

Poor remake...sequel..prequel..whatever

[Boyo-2 · 2/10 · 20 July 2000]

I like Jason London and Eddie Kaye Thomas and greatly admire the original, but aside from a decent scene or two, this movie is completely worthless. The payoff at the end is not even as satisfying as it should be, and if you can't get that right, then forget it. They even had the nerve to put the great Billie Holliday on the soundtrack and show scenes from the first movie, both for no good reason that I could determine. Amy Irving laughed all the way to the bank, I hope - most of her scenes are among the worst.

You Gotta Dance with Who Brung You

[bababear · 7/10 · 18 April 2008]

I'll start by saying that I saw this on TV and it was, of course, heavily edited. It impressed me enough that I'm planning to watch the uncut version.

Brian DePalma's 1976 film has been the template for countless teen horror movies. The pattern is set in stone. An outsider is humiliated and abused for the first two acts and a small portion of the third. Then the tables are turned. The victim becomes the ultimate abuser, sending jocks and sorority girls and random teens to an untimely grave.

This is the price a writer and director pay for working in this particular genre. The final rampage isn't really a surprise: it's what people bought their tickets for.

What is a surprise in CARRIE 2 is how well made it is. Surprise, surprise. It's not made in Canada or Romania or New Zealand. It's actually made in America, in North and South Carolina.

And what good actors. Jason London, 27 years old, still in high school all these years after DAZED AND CONFUSED which should have made him a major star but for some reason didn't. Rachel Blanchard, who's been acting since she was six, as the bad girl who pretends to befriend the leading lady. Mena Suvari before American BEAUTY.

The casting is good all around. These high school students actually look like they go to high school.

Here's an idea for the ultimate revenge of the teen underdog movie. The first act would be a shortened remake of THE BREAKFAST CLUB. Detention served, they would walk out the door of the school only to discover that some scourge has destroyed all other human life on the planet. After briefly reentering the building to kill Principal Vernon and the janitor the five last humans on Earth will set out to build a new society from scratch.

Disgraceful to the original

[BeaArthr · 1/10 · 13 March 1999]

I wasn't too excited to hear that there was going to be a sequel to Carrie, just because I knew that they would ruin everything about it. I love the original, and the studios can't make movies as great as they were back then. I saw it, and like I predicted it just wasn't great. It was quite disgraceful to the original, actually.

The main thing I don't like about it is how the new Carrie, or Rachel isn't really that evil or weird. That mystique and her quiet and shy demeanor is what made her so wonderful and such a great horror film star. Rachel, however, is not even that shy. She doesn't even take the insults she receives, she says her own comments back. She's just too normal to be a psychopathic killer with telekinetic powers! And since you don't feel that she is that evil, the killing scene just isn't that great.

Please, just rent the original Carrie. You will like it much better. Hollywood producers today shouln't be butchering the classics like this.

Carrie White's Legacy Continues!!!

[Pumpkin_Man · 7/10 · 18 January 2014]

After the 2013 Carrie remake was released, I wanted to re-watch the original and its sequel. It had been years since I've watched this and it holds up and much better than I remembered. It has a great nostalgic vibe to it with having Amy Irving return as Sue Snell 23 years later and giving us some great flashback scenes from the original classic. It also brings the original story to the modern world with Carrie's half sister Rachel Lang having the telekinetic disease.

This movie almost seems like it'd be a great Lifetime film rather than a sequel to Carrie because of the teenage drama and suicide over love. After Rachel's friend commits suicide because of being rejected by a jock, guidance counselor Sue Snell tries to help Rachel with the loss and soon the realization that she has powers.

Rachel begins to fall in love with a sweet-hearted jock named Jesse. The jocks begin to taunt her and humiliate her at a party after the big football game. This is the best part of the film because you always wanna see how these hot telekinetic chicks get their revenge. There is one part that I absolutely hated. Even as a child, it brought me to tears. I won't spoil it for you, but someone beloved gets caught in the crossfire. It's a good and decent sequel but will never beat the original. I'd recommend THE RAGE: CARRIE 2!!!

Quite enjoyable

[BigGuy · 5/10 · 18 March 1999]

I had read some bad reviews of this movie, that it didn't live up to the original and such. Having never seen the original I can't judge that. But I did have a good time with the movie. It isn't incredibly funny, or incredibly scary, but it does have a reality that made it a good movie. The characters were believable, even though many of them were off-the-shelf personalities. I especially liked the Romeo and Juliet touch that had undertones through the whole movie. The only thing I would really ask to be changed in this movie is the last minute, being quite cliche for a horror movie.

Its greatest asset is also its greatest drawback.

[bkosse · 8/10 · 15 June 1999]

Yes, you read that right.

Emily Bergl is this films greatest asset. She can actually act and looks sincere. The only problem is that she's far too good looking for the role. That may sound shallow, but throughout the movie, we're supposed to get the impression that she's "ugly" and because of that, she's an outcast. Contrast this to Sissy Spacek in the original who looked plain enough to carry out the role of "ugly duckling". It was only her talent that let Bergl carry (pun not intended) out the role convincingly.

The antoganists are unusually shallow, especially when presented against the more modern bad guys in horror films, at least where you can see the bad guy. Though at least one of the bad girls is convincing as Rachel's new friend.

Jason Landon does an amiable job as Rachel's boyfriend and lends a lot of credibility to the final scene which, I must say, is a refreshing change from the hand coming out of the ground scenes popularized by the original Carrie.

All in all, a refreshingly entertaining and, dare I say, well done show.

Carrie's baby-sister is just as fiery as she was!

[Coventry · 6/10 · 24 September 2005]

It's usually not a very good idea to make a belated sequel to a horror film, especially not when the original is generally considered a genre masterpiece and from the hands of writer Stephen King and director Brian DePalma. Yet, the makers of "Carrie 2: The Rage" didn't make complete fools out of themselves, as it is a very entertaining and well-scripted story that appeals to both the fans of the classy original and younger horror lovers. Well, the term "horror" doesn't totally fit this film, because it's only the climax (last 15 minutes or so) which is bloody. The best way to describe "The Rage" pretty much is "American Pie" meets "She's All That" with a gory finale. The story is set in a typically American high school where the students only have sex, football and cheer-leading on their minds. The only difference is that this is the same high school were Carrie White raised a little hell 23 years earlier and now there's a new girl with telekinetic powers arriving... The unpopular Rachel Lang receives a lot of attention from the top-quarterback Jesse Ryan, and thus the rest of the sport and cheerleader team plot to humiliate her in public. They obviously didn't learn much from their school's infamous history. After a quite atmospheric intro and a suicide-sequence which pretty much is the coolest I've ever seen, "The Rage" becomes a little slow and it starts suffering from too many clichés. Still, during these rather dull moments there's the good acting of Emily Bergyl and Jason London to enjoy, as well as some remotely funny teenager sex-jokes. The climax is very much worth anticipating and contains some really graphic killings. The make-up effects are terrifically gruesome and some of the macabre deaths are very ingenious. This sure is a predictable and redundant film, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun.

Carrie 2 The Cheese.

[steve-55595 · 2/10 · 25 January 2020]

How they kept a straight face whilst making this movie is anybodys guess. It really is that bad. Boy meets Girl. Boy falls for Girl. Girl loses the plot and kills all of Boys friends and herself. Then the best bit happens.....the credits roll. Only in this film could somebody who moves things with their mind not move the one thing that trapped them in a burning house.