The Rage: Carrie 2

The Rage: Carrie 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Katt Shea
Written by	Rafael Moreu
Produced by	Paul Monash
Starring	Emily Bergl Jason London Dylan Bruno J. Smith-Cameron Amy Irving
Cinematography	Donald M. Morgan
Edited by	Richard Nord
Music by	Danny B. Harvey
Production companies	United Artists Red Bank Films
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	March 12, 1999 (1999-03-12)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$21 million
Box office	$17.8 million

The Rage: Carrie 2 is a 1999 American supernatural drama horror film directed by Katt Shea. It is a sequel to the 1976 horror film Carrie, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, and features Carrie White's half sister Rachel Lang in the lead role. Directed by Katt Shea, the film stars Emily Bergl, Jason London, Dylan Bruno, J. Smith-Cameron, and Amy Irving who reprises her role of Sue Snell from the previous film.

The film was released on March 12, 1999, and received generally poor reviews from critics. The film was a box office bomb at the time of release, grossing $17 million against a $21 million production budget.

Plot

Barbara Lang paints a barrier around her living room to protect her telekinetic daughter, Rachel, from the devil. Barbara is soon institutionalized for schizophrenia.

Years later Rachel, living with foster parents, talks with her best friend Lisa, who has lost her virginity to Eric, a football player. The football players have a game where they sleep with girls and receive points, revealing Eric never cared for Lisa. After Eric rejects her, Lisa commits suicide.

Rachel discovers a photo of Lisa and Eric. She tells school counselor Sue Snell and Sheriff Kelton that Lisa and Eric slept together. Kelton looks into charging Eric with statutory rape. Walter, Rachel's dog, is struck by a car, but Rachel flags down Jesse as he drives past. After taking Walter to an animal hospital, they get coffee. Learning that Rachel gave Kelton the photograph, Eric, Mark, and several other football players attempt to intimidate her into not talking. They become victims of her powers and flee when her foster parents arrive.

Sue meets with Rachel. When Sue asks about moving objects with her mind, Rachel screams, and a snow globe on Sue's desk shatters; Sue realizes Rachel is telekinetic. Sue brings Rachel to the original high school where the disaster took place years before and tells Rachel that Barbara revealed to her that Rachel and Carrie White had the same father; to protect her, she did not tell Rachel. Rachel does not believe her. Jesse pursues Rachel, angering popular cheerleader Tracy. Jesse convinces Rachel he was unaware of her attack, and Rachel agrees to date him.

The Senior D.A. covers up the statutory rape because of the political influence of the families of the players. Encouraged, Mark plots to humiliate Rachel for what she did to Eric. He 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, both unaware that a hidden video camera is filming them. After a football game, one of the players, Brad, and his girlfriend Monica invite Rachel to a party at Mark's. She leaves with Monica, while Jesse is sidetracked by Tracy, who attempts to seduce him.

Rachel is with Jesse's friends when the football players reveal their sex game and claim that Rachel was added to Jesse's list, making Rachel believe Jesse never cared for her. They also play the videotape and abuse her. As it triggers Rachel's telekinesis, she closes the doors and kills most of the party-goers, including Deborah and Chuck. Sue takes Barbara from the mental hospital and goes to Mark's house. As Sue peers in the door, Rachel kills both Sue (unknowingly) and Brad.

Rachel later kills Monica and Eric when they try to stop her with Spear guns. While distracted by her mother's voice, Marks, in an attempt to stop her, shoots Rachel with a flare gun as she falls into a pool, causing a sensor to extend the cover. When Mark makes the mistake of checking the pool, the injured Rachel pulls Mark into the pool, and, with the cover fully extended, uses his spear gun to free herself while he drowns. When Barbara sees Rachel's current state, she believes Rachel is possessed and flees. Rachel prays for help to die.

Jesse and Tracy find the house in flames and their friends dead. When Rachel sees Tracy, she kills her without hesitation. The videotape of Rachel and Jesse is still playing; when he sees it Jesse tells her he did not know they were taped. Rachel calls him a liar as a notebook hits him, opening to the score page. Jesse says he loves her, but she does not believe him until she hears him say it on the videotape, 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 kiss. Rachel pushes him out of the house before allowing herself to be consumed by the flames.

A year later, Jesse is at King's University, sharing his room with Rachel's beloved dog, Walter. He is haunted by what has happened.

Cast

• Emily Bergl as Rachel Lang
  • Kayla Campbell as Young Rachel
• Jason London as Jesse Ryan: a popular jock with whom Rachel falls in love.
• Dylan Bruno as Mark Bing: a football player who owns the mansion where the football game after-party takes place.
• J. Smith-Cameron as Barbara Lang: Rachel's insane mother.
• Amy Irving as Sue Snell: the one and only survivor of Carrie's rage in the original film, now a guidance counselor.
• Zachery Ty Bryan as Eric Stark: a jock who seduces and then humiliates Lisa, resulting in her suicide.
• John Doe as Boyd: Rachel's foster father
• 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: football player and Monica's boyfriend.
• Mena Suvari as Lisa Parker: Rachel's best friend, who commits suicide.
• Elijah Craig as Chuck Potter: football player.
• Eddie Kaye Thomas as Arnold: Rachel's friend.
• Clint Jordan as Sheriff Kelton
• Kate Skinner as Emilyn: Rachel's foster mother
• Gordon Clapp as Mr. Stark: Eric's father
• Steven Ford as Coach Walsh
• Deborah Meschan as Deborah: One of Monica's friends who takes part in setting Rachel up
• Katt Shea as Deputy D.A.
• Robert D.Raiford as The Senior D.A.
• Rhoda Griffis as Mrs. Porter: A Saleswoman
• Sissy Spacek as Carrie White: Rachel's deceased half-sister, and the protagonist of the original film. Sissy Spacek turned down an offer to cameo in the film but gave permission to have her likeness used in the film.

Production

Development

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.

Casting

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.

Release

The film was theatrically released on March 12, 1999.

Home media

The film was released on VHS and DVD on October 12, 1999. A Blu-ray version of the film was released on 14 April 2015 in a double feature with the 2002 TV version of Carrie from Scream Factory.

Reception

Box office

The Rage: Carrie 2, was released on March 12, 1999. It opened in second place that weekend but was not successful. It grossed a total of $17,762,705 domestically against a $21 million budget, making the film a box office disappointment.

Critical reception

The film received mostly negative reviews upon its release, with many moviegoers and critics criticizing the film's failure to capture the essence of what made the original so creepy, yet believable. Rotten Tomatoes reported the film had a 21% approval rating based on thirty-two reviews and a 33% with six reviews based on top critics. On Metacritic it had a rating of 42 on a scale from 0-100 based on 21 reviews indicating mixed or average reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film 2 out of 4 stars stating "The original Carrie worked because it was a skillful teenage drama grafted onto a horror ending. Also, of course, because De Palma and his star, Sissy Spacek, made the story convincing. The Rage: Carrie 2 is more like a shadow".

Soundtrack

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" – Five Times 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 Mo b

External links

• The Rage: Carrie 2 at IMDb
• The Rage: Carrie 2 at AllMovie
• The Rage: Carrie 2 at Rotten Tomatoes