Sam Panico Originally titled The Curse, this film, based on the real-life Spur Posse case, sat in development hell for two years. One can only wish that it had remained there. How did we as a people allow this movie to happen? If only social media had been around to shame this film into nothingness back then! The original story was so close to Carrie that the producers decided to go for it and the film finally went into production in 1998 under the title Carrie 2: Say You're Sorry. However, just a few weeks into production, director Robert Mandel (School Ties, F/X) quit over creative difference and Katt Shea (Stripped to Kill, Poison Ivy) stepped in with less than a week to prepare and two weeks' worth of unusable footage.Did you like Hackers? Well, if you did, good news. The writer of that movie, Rafael Moreu, also wrote this. Chances are, however, that you disliked that movie. Most people do.Man, where to start? Well, how about in the past, where Barbara Lang paints a red paint barrier throughout her house to protect her daughter Rachel from Satan? There's a nice transition here where we go from the young girl holding her puppy to the teen version holding an older version of Walter the dog.Rachel hates her foster parents (the dad is John Doe from X!) and only has one friend, Lisa (a pre-American Pie and American Beauty, if only by a few months, Mena Suvari). On the bus, Lisa shares that she just gave up her virginity to Eric (Zachery Ty Bryan of TV's Home Improvement), a football player.The truth? It's all an elaborate game where players get points for sleeping with different girls. Eric rejects her and Lisa dives off the roof of the school, igniting Rachel's telekinetic powers.That's when we meet Sue Snell (Amy Irving, who asked Brian De Palma for his blessing), the only person who came back from the original. She's now a school counselor and she and Sheriff Kelton are trying to figure out why so many girls have come to her in tears. Never mind that one of them just did a perfect dive off the garden club's roof.Meanwhile, Walter the dog gets hit by a car and Jesse, the nice football player takes her to the animal hospital. Becca assures me that Jason London and his twin brother, Jesse, were once a big deal. All I know is that he was in Dazed and Confused. The football players learn that Rachel figured out the game and alerted the police, so they try and intimidate her. Her powers nearly kill them before her foster parents arrive.Sue Snell drops the bomb on Rachel soon after. Her father, Ralph White, also was the father of Carrie White, who burned down the school that Sue attended and killed 70 people thanks to her powers. Rachel refuses to believe that they are half-sisters, even after a visit to the burned down school. This is probably where the planned Sissy Spacek cameo would have gone, but she did not want to be in the film. She did allow her old footage to be used, however. There was even a version shot of this scene where Rachel kicked the metal bucket that dropped onto Carrie's head, but thankfully smarter heads won out.So Jesse falls in love with Rachel, despite popular girl Tracy being all butthurt about it. Oh yeah - I forgot that American Pie alumnus Eddie Kaye Thomas shows up, too.The players get out of jail free thanks to the status of their parents. But they want revenge, so they decide to humiliate Rachel. They secretly tape Rachel and Jesse making love and play it at a big party that they've invited Rachel to. The players also reveal their sex game and make her believe that Jesse never really loved her.As they all scream and yell at her (one of them even yells, "They're all going to laugh at you," which one imagines they would only know from an Adam Sandler routine), she finally unleashes her power and kills nearly everyone. This is the one great scene in the film, as her tattoo (which looks like the fakest tattoo in the history of the fake tattoo game) becomes vines that descend down her arm.Sue has somehow stolen Barbara from the mental institution to try and save Rachel, but it causes her death (shades of Miss Collins in the original). Even spear guns and a flare gun can't stop her. Finally, her mother tells her that she is possessed by Satan and wants nothing to do with her and Rachel begs to die.Tracy comes into the house and Rachel kills her with absolutely no mercy. As the videotape of Jesse and Rachel plays, she makes him explain. He screams that he loves her but she doesn't believe it until she hears the same tone on the video. The ceiling collapses on her and he stays by her side to kiss, but she pushes him away as she dies.A year later, while in his college dorm with her dog (he must have one of those great football player deals that allow you to have a pet on campus and yes, I get the silliness of me being bothered by this when I've just watched an entire movie about psychic powers), Rachel appears to him in a dream before she shatters. And yes, that's the dumbest ending I've seen in some time.This movie is a complete piece of 1990's junk and not in a good way. It's all shot with that crushed black/blue filter, everything on the soundtrack sounds like Fear Factory and it makes you realize a time and place where horrible sequels like this and An American Werewolf in Paris were considered good ideas. This would have been better if it were a movie that stood in its own so that I could have ended this article with something like, well, it's no Carrie. Instead, it shoves that fact into your face from the very first frame.

felicity_warren Remembered this from my teenage years. Always pull it out from time to time

OllieSuave-007 Filmed as a sequel to the original 1976 Carrie, this movie is set some 22 years after the events of Carrie. High school student Rachel has lost her best friend to suicide and, in making matters worst, is the victim of tormenting from a bunch of punk football jocks who sleep with girls to score points. But, this tormenting threatens to put Rachel's power of telekinesis to action.Emily Bergl did a nice job portraying Rachel as an outcast, troubled, yet vulnerable and sympathetic. Dylan Bruno and Zachary Ty Bryan played love-to-hate portrayals of Mark and Eric, displaying that rich but spoiled, punky guys type. But their acting was dull, as well as Jesse Ryan's emotionless portrayal of Jesse Ryan. The plot device of Rachel's best friend committing suicide after finding out she is another pawn in the guys' sex games is a clever way to lead into the movie's turn-of-events and, eventually, into Rachel's unleashing of her powers. Add onto the return of Amy Irving as Sue Snell to serve as a link between the two films, trying to discover the history of Rachel's powers and the link between her and Carrie is a great piece of suspense. However, much of this drama is lost as the plot was rushed through toward the second half of the movie.***major spoilers ahead*** The ending carnage was action-packed, but many important plot elements were left unexplained, including the fate of Rachel's mother, the whereabouts of Ralph White (Carrie and Rachel's father) and the town's reaction after Rachel's wrath. And, Sue Snell served as a very important link between the past and present and wanted to put all the pieces together to help Rachel, but she was unceremoniously killed off *** major spoilers ends*** What started out as a suspenseful and dramatic movie came to a mishmash of loose-ends.Grade D

callanvass Rachel Lang is a teenager with many emotional troubles. Her Mom is a little crazy and she's ridden with telekinesis, meaning she has the uncanny ability to move things with her mind. Sue Snell (Amy Irving) witnessed the downfall of Carrie White many years ago, and wants to make sure that Rachel doesn't go through the same thing. To make matters worse, her best friend Lisa (Mena Suvari) commits suicide over a womanizer, leaving her with nothing. Things start to look up when she meets a hunk at the school (Jason London) and Rachel uncovers what happened to cause her best friend to commit suicide, but wannabe jock, Eric (Zachary Ty Bryan) will stop at nothing to make sure Rachel doesn't uncover the truth. I'm NOT a fan of the first movie or the remake. The first movie has a huge following, something I've never quite understood. It's an above average movie at best. Needless to say, my expectations for this unnecessary sequel were quite low. The original is mentioned here and there, but so much more could have been done with it. The relationships feel very cookie-cutter and forced. It's hard to commit emotionally when I felt so empty for most of the duration. The character development isn't that great, and everything felt thrown in there. The telekinesis storyline is played out as well. Emily Bergl is great as Rachel, managing to overcome a poor script. I don't get why she was such an outsider, though. She's really pretty! I had a hard time believing that she had trouble gaining friends or dates. She makes the most of it, and comes through like a champ. Jason London is solid as the love interest. Chicks will fall in love with him, and he's really likable. His chemistry with Bergl is decent, albeit unspectacular. Amy Irving cashes in a check, I'll say that. Her part wasn't much, and had the potential to be much more. Zachery Ty Bryan is a lame jock. He's rather boring, in my opinion. For those that don't know, he's mostly known for Home Improvement. Rachel Blanchard is sexy and manipulative, giving her thin part some flavor. I've been a fan of hers since Clueless. American Pie fans will rejoice at the sightings of Mena Suvari and Eddie Kaye Thomas! I know I did. Too bad their parts aren't much. A lot of the characters are unsympathetic, making it hard to care about their fates. I wouldn't call this a gore fest, but the ending is absolutely LOADED with blood! If you've seen the ending to Hellraiser 3, you'll see something very similar here. It gets really nasty! Fun with CD's, glass, spears, and much more! They try to recreate the emotional impact from the ending of the first one to no avail.The last 20 minutes are fun! Shame about the rest of it. It's watchable, but completely uninspired in every way. If you insist on seeing it, prepare for a lot of routine drivel until the last 20 minutes! The best thing about this movie is Emily Bergl's performance. 5.1/10