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The Rage: Carrie 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Katt Shea
Written by	Rafael Moreu
Produced by	Patrick J. Palmer 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	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$21 million
Box office	$17,762,705

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 title 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 and fans of the original film alike. The film was also a box office bomb grossing merely $17 million against a $21 million production budget.

The Rage: Carrie 2 will be released on Blu-ray early 2015 in a double feature with the 2002 made-for-television version of Carrie.

Plot

Barbara Lang paints a barrier around her living room to protect her telekinetic daughter Rachel Lang 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, who has a part-time job printing photos, discovers photos of Lisa and Eric. She tells school counselor Sue Snell and Sheriff Kelton about Lisa and Eric sleeping together. Kelton looks into charging Eric with statutory rape. Walter, Rachel's dog, is struck by a car but Rachel flags down Jesse, one of the football players, as he drives past, and 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 talkng, but become victims of her powers. The boys 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 realises Rachel is telekinetic. After talking to her mother about it, Sue brings Rachel to the original high school, where a disaster took place years before and tells Rachel, that Barbara told her that Rachel and Carrie had the same father; she did not tell Rachel to protect her. Rachel interrupts Sue's story and insists her father was Bill Kirk, who left them when she was three months old. Jesse pursues Rachel, angering popular, one-night-stand cheerleader Tracy. Jesse convinces Rachel he was unaware of the attack on her and Rachel agrees to go out with him.

Mark plots to humiliate Rachel for what she did to Eric, apologizing to Jesse and offering 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 there is a hidden video camera filming them. After a football game, Mark, encouraged by the following cover-up of Eric´s statutory rape by the Senior D.A. out of political reasons, sets his plan in motion. One of the players, Brad, and his girlfriend Monica invite Rachel to a party at Mark's and she leaves with Monica and her friend Deborah. In the meantime, Jesse is sidetracked by Tracy, who attempts to seduce him.

Rachel is with Jesse's friends when they reveal to her their sex game and claim that Rachel was added to Jesse's list, making Rachel believe Jesse never cared for her. They play the videotape showing Rachel and Jesse having sex. As Rachel's telekinesis is triggered, she closes the doors of the house and kills most of the party-goers. Sue takes Barbara from the mental hospital and goes to Mark's house. Sue reaches the door and attempts to peer in just as Rachel flings a fireplace poker at Brad's head, which also kills Sue from the other side.

Rachel kills Monica and Eric. Rachel hears her mother calling for her, distracting her. Mark shoots Rachel with a flare gun as she falls into a pool, causing a sensor to extend the cover. 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 runs from her. 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 by collapsing the ceiling above her. 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 share a 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 dog Walter which he kept as a memory of Rachel. He has a dream that Rachel enters his room, looking as she did when they made love. In the dream, they reconcile and share a kiss before she shatters into ash. Jesse awakes and looks at himself in the mirror with distress.

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.
• 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
• Gordon Clapp as Mr. Stark: Eric's father
• Rachel Blanchard as Monica Jones: Tracy's best friend.
• Charlotte Ayanna as Tracy Campbell: Jesse Ryan's ex-girlfriend, a popular cheerleader.
• 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
• Steven Ford as Coach Walsh
• Amy Irving as Sue Snell: a survivor of Carrie's rage in the original film, now a guidance counselor.
• 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.

Reception

Box Office

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 against a $21 million budget making the film a box office bomb.

Critical Reception

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

References

1. ^ "The Rage:Carrie 2". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
2. "The Rage: Carrie 2 cult following". bookslut.com. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
3. ^ "The Rage: Carrie 2 Blu-ray release". ihorror.com. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
4. Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide by Stephen Jones, p.124
5. ^ "The Rage: Carrie 2" audio commentary. United Artists, 2002.
6. The Rage: Carrie 2 Production Notes
7. Carrie / The Rage: Carrie 2 Blu-ray Details
8. "Weekend Box Office March 12-14, 1999". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
9. "Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
10. Roger Ebert (March 12, 1999). "The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)". Roger Ebert.com.
11. http://www.amazon.com/Carrie-2-Rage-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B00000ID3E/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1212831888&sr=8-3 . {{cite AV media}}: External link in |title= (help)

External links

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

• 1999 films
• 1999 horror films
• 1990s teen films
• American teen horror films
• English-language films
• Films about revenge
• Films about virginity
• Films about women
• Films based on works by Stephen King
• Films shot in North Carolina
• Films shot in South Carolina
• American sequel films
• Supernatural thriller films
• Films about bullying
• United Artists films