The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)

Directed by

Katt Shea

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, slasher film, teen film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 465 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl with telekinetic powers learns that her best friend killed herself after being manipulated by a group of popular boys. She begins to experience her own growing powers and faces social cruelty at her high school.

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What happens

The Rage: Carrie 2 is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Katt Shea, and starring Emily Bergl in her film debut, along with Jason London, Dylan Bruno, J. Smith-Cameron, and Amy Irving. It is a sequel to the 1976 film Carrie based on the 1974 novel by Stephen King, and serves as the second film in the Carrie franchise. Its plot follows Rachel Lang, the younger half-sister of Carrie White, also suffering with telekinesis, who finds that her best friend Lisa Parker's suicide was spurred by a group of popular male classmates who exploited her for sexual gain. The film was originally titled The Curse and did not have connections to the Carrie novel or film, but was eventually rewritten to be a direct sequel to the 1976 film. It was shot on location in and around Charlotte, North Carolina in the spring of 1998. The Rage: Carrie 2 was released on March 12, 1999, and was a box office bomb, grossing $17 million against a $21 million production budget. It received generally negative reviews, which criticized the routine recycling of the original film's story and themes. However, they widely praised the performance of Bergl, who was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for her work on the film at the 26th Saturn Awards. The film has received some retrospective commentary for its themes of rape culture and bullying in high schools. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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