The Rage: Carrie 2

The Rage: Carrie 2
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Directed by	Katt Shea
Produced by	Patrick J. Palmer Paul Monash
Written by	Stephen King (characters) Rafael Moreu
Starring	Emily Bergl Mena Suvari Jason London Amy Irving
Music by	Danny B. Harvey
Cinematography	Donald M. Morgan
Editing by	Richard Nord
Studio	United Artists
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	March 12, 1999 (1999-03-12)
Running time	104 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$21,000,000 (estimated)
Box office	$17,762,705

The Rage: Carrie 2 is the 1999 sequel to the 1976 horror film classic Carrie. Directed by Katt Shea, the film starred Emily Bergl, Mena Suvari, Jason London and Amy Irving.

Plot

Barbara (J. Smith-Cameron) paints her house red to protect her telekinetic daughter Rachel (Emily Bergl) from demons. Barbara is institutionalized.

Years later Rachel (Emily Bergl), living with foster parents, talks with her friend Lisa (Mena Suvari), who has lost her virginity to Eric (Zachary Ty Bryan), a football player. Lisa gives Rachel a roll of film. The football players talk about Lisa; they have a game where they sleep with girls and receive points. Mark (Dylan Bruno) records their scores in a notebook.

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 (Amy Irving) talks with Rachel about Lisa; Sue spent time at the institution holding Rachel's mother. 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 - Ralph White.

Eric talks with Mark, afraid he will be blamed for Lisa's suicide. He reveals they slept together and Mark assures him the information will stay private. Eric tells Mark that Lisa took a picture of them and Mark tells Eric he will deal with it.

Rachel discovers she developed photos of Lisa and Eric just before Mark and Jesse (Jason London) arrive. Mark tries bribing Rachel for the photographs, then offers to take her out; she rejects him. Rachel tells Sue and Sheriff Kelton (Clint Jordan) about Lisa and Eric sleeping together, giving Kelton the photograph. Kelton looks into charging Eric with statutory rape.

Walter, Rachel's dog, is struck by a car. Rachel cries for help from passing cars, then stands in the road, stopping a truck. Jesse was going home after having sex with Tracy Campbell (Charlotte Ayanna) when Rachel stops him. Jesse takes her to an animal clinic. Walter will be fine and Jesse takes Rachel out for coffee.

Learning that Rachel gave the photograph to Kelton, Mark, Eric and other football players go to her trailer late at night, turning off the power and breaking a window. Mark harasses her on the phone. Eric starts entering the trailer through a window. Rachel's telekinesis closes the window on Eric's hand. The boys leave when her foster parents arrive.

Sue meets with Rachel. When Sue asks about moving objects with her mind, Rachel begins leaving. Sue tries stopping her; Rachel screams and a snow globe on Sue's desk shatters. Sue brings Rachel to the school that Carrie destroyed and tells Rachel about Carrie. Sue also tells her that she has telekinesis and there are places that study it. Sue tells Rachel that her father was Carrie's father, which Rachel does not believe.

Jesse pursues Rachel, angering Tracy. The night the football players attacked, Jesse and Rachel had a date. Jesse convinces Rachel he was unaware of the attack and Rachel agrees to go out with him. Jesse confronts Mark about the attack and the two fight.

Mark plots to humiliate Rachel for what she did to Eric, although the charges were dropped. Mark apologizes to Jesse and offers his parents' cabin so Jesse can spend the night with Rachel. The two share a romantic evening and Rachel loses her virginity. While she sleeps, Jesse whispers that he loves her.

Rachel goes to a football game to watch Jesse. After the game, a football player and his girlfriend tell Rachel Jesse is talking to a college scout and she should go to a party at Mark's with them. Jesse is sidetracked by Tracy, who attempts to seduce him.

Rachel is mingling with Jesse's friends when the football players reveal their sex game and claim that Rachel was added to Jesse's list. Mark plays a tape showing Jesse and Rachel having sex, making Rachel believe Jesse never cared for her. Rachel's ability is triggered; she closes the doors of the house and kills most of the partiers. Sue has taken Rachel's mother from the hospital and gone to Mark's house. Sue reaches the door just as Rachel throws a fire poker at a boy's head, killing Sue on the other side.

In Mark's father's study, Eric, Mark and Monica take harpoon guns and Mark takes a flare gun before confronting Rachel. Rachel follows the trio to the pool and makes Monica's eyes explode out of her head breaking her glasses in the process, blinding her. After she is blinded Monica accidentally shoots Eric in the in the groin with the harpoon gun, castrating him before they both die. Rachel hears her mother calling for her; which causes her to be distracted, Mark shoots Rachel with the flare gun. Rachel falls into the pool, causing a sensor to extend the cover. Rachel pulls Mark into the pool, and when the pool cover was fully extended, she uses his spear gun to free herself while he drowns. Rachel's mother believes she is possessed and runs from the house. Rachel prays for help.

Jesse and Tracy find the house in flames and their friends dead. When Rachel sees Tracy, she kills her by collapsing the ceiling above her. Jesse urges Rachel to leave. The tape of them is still playing; when he sees it Jesse tells her he did not know they were taped. Rachel calls him a liar and hits him with the notebook, which opens to the score page. Jesse says he loves her, but she does not believe him until she hears him say it on the tape, realizing he told the truth. When the ceiling collapses over Jesse's head, Rachel pushes him out of the way and is pinned. She tells him she loves him and they share a kiss before his arm lights on fire. Jesse tries kissing Rachel again, but she pushes him out of the house before allowing herself to be consumed by the flames, smiling.

One year later Jesse is at King's University, sharing his room with Walter. He has a dream that Rachel enters his room, looking as she did when they made love. They kiss before she shatters into ash. Jesse awakes and looks at himself in the mirror.

Cast

• Emily Bergl as Rachel Lang
• Jason London as Jesse Ryan: A popular jock whom Rachel falls in love with.
• Amy Irving as Sue Snell: Survivor of Carrie's rage in the original film, now a guidance counselor.
• J. Smith-Cameron as Barbara Lang: Rachel's mother.
• Dylan Bruno as Mark Bing: A football player who owns the mansion where the football game after-party takes place.
• Zachery Ty Bryan as Eric Stark: A jock who seduces and then humiliates Lisa, resulting in her suicide.
• Charlotte Ayanna as Tracy Campbell: Jesse Ryan's ex-girlfriend, a popular cheerleader.
• Rachel Blanchard as Monica Jones: Tracy's best friend.
• Justin Urich as Brad Winters.
• Elijah Craig as Chuck Potter.
• Eddie Kaye Thomas as Arnold: Rachel's friend.
• Mena Suvari as Lisa Parker: Rachel's best friend, who commits suicide.
• Sissy Spacek as Carrie White (in flashbacks): Rachel's deceased half-sister, and the protagonist of the original film.

Production

Originally titled The Curse, the film was scheduled to start production in 1996 with Emily Bergl in the lead, however production stalled for two years. The plot heavily borrows from a real-life 1993 incident in which a group of high school jocks known as The Spur Posse were involved in a sex scandal. In 1998, the film finally went into production under the title "Carrie 2: Say You're Sorry". A few weeks into production, director Robert Mandel quit over creative differences and Katt Shea hurriedly took over the reins with less than a week to prepare to start filming, and two weeks' worth of footage to reshoot.

Amy Irving reprised the role of Sue Snell, which she originated in the first Carrie, though she was initially wary of taking the role and asked Brian De Palma, director of the original film, for his blessing. Director Shea was told that she would not be able to use footage of Sissy Spacek from the original Carrie, but she edited several scenes into the film and presented the film to Spacek, who granted permission for her likeness to be used.

Reaction

The film was released March 12, 1999 in the United States, opening in second place that weekend. It grossed a total of $17,762,705 domestically. The film was panned by critics and fans of the original movie. It flopped at the box office, grossing less than its estimated $21 million dollar budget.

Though the film was a box office disappointment, it did receive praise for its intense gore scenes and elaborate special effects. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film 16% based on thirty-one reviews.

Soundtrack listing

1. Crazy Little Voices - Ra
2. Quick, Painless And Easy - Ivy
3. Resurrection - Fear Factory
4. Year Of Summer - Paradise Lost
5. Low Down - 10 Watt Mary
6. Looking Down The Barrel - 5x Down
7. Die With Me - Type O Negative
8. Keep Sleeping - 16Volt
9. Dark Love - Kate Shrock
10. Laughter Lines - Sack
11. The Slower I Go - L.A.X.
12. Sleep - Trailer Park Pam
13. Spark Somebody Up - Budda Monk

Soundtrack trivia" The only song played during the movie is "Crazy Little Voices" by Ra. The song is played during the end credits and is used often to make fan-made music videos of the movie.

External links

• The Rage: Carrie 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• The Rage: Carrie 2 at AllRovi