10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love this movie...why the hate?, May 17, 2009
This review is from: The Rage: Carrie 2 (DVD)
I really liked this movie, I made no attempt to compare it to the original Carrie or the remake. If you put all that aside you have a more modern teenage...highschool revenge story which was done really well. The effects at the end were well done and the cast I thought was well chosen. Don't overthink it...just enjoy...
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
They're all gonna laugh at you...AGAIN!, September 5, 2000
This review is from: The Rage: Carrie 2 (DVD)
"The Rage: Carrie 2" serves more like a remake than a sequel to the 1976 original. 23 years after Carrie White killed off most of her senior class when a prank was pulled on her at the prom, a new girl is walking the halls of Bates High School. Her name is Rachel Lang (Emily Bergyl). Little does she know it, but she is the half sister of Carrie (same father, different mother), and she also has telekinetic powers which she uses to her advantage in the end! Luckily, Sue Snell (Amy Irving), one of the few survivors from Carrie's massacre, is a guidance counselor who tries to help Rachel before it's too late. Ok, now for the review. This film is good, it is nowhere near as good as the original, and it is similar, but it does have a few differences while trying to keep up the spirit of it's predecessor. The kids in this are nasty, and although this is bad, I was glad they were killed off, I mean, they deserved it! They didn't care about anyone or anything, as long as their prank humiliated and degraded poor Rachel. Director Katt Shea does well with creating a love story between Rachel and a jock, but she fails to capture the "horror" during the climax. Everything happens too quickly, we see fireplace pokers fly around and hit people and CD's pelting a girl, heads being cut off by flying glass and people being set on fire, but instead of gasping in horror, we laugh. We also get to see some nice scenes of a jock getting something ripped off, although I won't give it away to people who haven't seen the movie. When the rage kicks in though, Shea does manage to display Rachel's sense of shock and disbelief and anger, with fast, up close shots of the main baddies laughing at her, and a distorted picture of the rest of the party laughing hysterically before their demises. Kind of like in the original Carrie, when she thinks they are laughing at her, and she sees distored, blurry circles of her "friends" before letting go of her rage. Anyway, although the two stories are similar, there are differences in tastes, fashions, fads, etc, considering that this film takes place in 1999 while the other takes place in 1976, but this doesn't distract too much from the storyline. The effects and acting are good, and the flashback scenes are really good, put in at just the right moments whenever Rachel has one of her "episodes". One thing, how come no one tore down the old burned out Bates High School????? If you are a die-hard Stephen King fan, rent the original, if you want a different approach to an old story, rent this one.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very Under-rated Masterpiece..., February 13, 2010
This review is from: The Rage: Carrie 2 (DVD)
This movie is awesome. To Hell with all the stupid, imaginationless critics who panned this horror film. TRY This! seriously, it is a good film that has unfortunantly become a lost diamond. Awesome!
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