Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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

BA_Harrison One could easily be forgiven for having serious misgivings about this belated sequel to Brian De Palma's iconic horror classic: director Katt Shea's movies are primarily B-movie fodder, and the cast—Emily 'who?' Bergl, Mena 'It's all been downhill since '99' Suvari, S**tbreak from American Pie, and Rachel 'Cher from the TV series of Clueless' Blanchard—hardly inspire confidence. But while its admittedly a long way from the excellence of the '76 original, neither is it the totally unwatchable crap-fest that one might imagine.Bergl plays high-school student Rachel Lang, who lives with foster parents, her real mother having been committed to an asylum when she was young. After her best friend Lisa (Suvari) commits suicide, Rachel sees school counsellor Sue Snell (Amy Irving) who becomes convinced that the girl possesses psychic powers similar to those of Carrie White, a shy, reclusive girl whose powerful telekinetic abilities resulted in death and destruction twenty three years earlier. When Rachel begins to date football player Jesse (Jason London) and is invited to a party by the popular kids, things appear to be looking up, but tragedy lies just around the corner.For much of its running time, The Rage is more like a high-school drama than a horror film, focussing on the trials and tribulations of teenage life; it's clichéd stuff but passes the time painlessly enough. Finally, after an hour and a half of teenage shenanigans, some weak attempts at style from Shea (unnecessary black and white scenes and distorted imagery) and a little lazy exposition to explain away Rachel's powers, the film finally delivers the horror goods with a cracking climax that sees Rachel unleashing the full force of her telekinesis on her tormentors with spectacularly gory results (including a guy getting his junk blown off by a spear-gun!).

TheBlueHairedLawyer It's bad enough that Carrie had its awful remakes in 2002 and 2013, but if you look at all four Carrie movies, you'll discover one of the worst movies ever. Just like the Firestarter sequel (Rekindled), this one travels way too far from the original plot, the characters are preppy high school students and the soundtrack is horrible, as is the acting.The Rage follows telekinetic outcast and killer Carrie White's half-sister, Racheal, as she discovers her own horrible powers. As a child her mom was committed to a mental hospital so now Racheal lives with her trailer-trash foster parents and her only friend has committed suicide, leaving her alone. Racheal's beloved basset hound, Walter, is squashed by a car, and afterwards Racheal begins to learn that the urban legend of Carrie White, who wrecked the town in the Seventies, was indeed a true story, and soon everyone at school is coming face-to-face with Racheal's telekinetic rage.There are so many cliché horror elements in this movie that it's not even funny. I cared nothing about what happened to any of the characters, the guys were all sleazy sex maniacs and the girls were all snotty Barbie clones or emo teens, nothing unique about anyone. For some reason Racheal has a heart-shaped tattoo, no idea why, and when she uses her powers, vines grow out of it. Why? Like I said, no idea whatsoever, just a pointless waste of the movie's budget.The only bright side to this pathetic load of garbage is that Amy Irving, who played the original Sue Snell in the 1976 Carrie, comes back to play the role of Sue Snell again as an adult. This movie reminded me more of The Haunting of Molly Hartley than it did of Carrie.My advice? Don't watch The Rage unless you're incredibly bored.

bowmanblue The first film was a classic. How it remained 'stand-alone' for so long is a mystery to me. I can't believe so bright Hollywood money-man didn't think of doing a sequel waaay sooner than twenty-three years later. And, as we all know, how many times are sequels even nearly as good as the original? Not many. But Carrie 2 doesn't totally disgrace itself.Carrie 2 felt a bit like a 'part remake/part sequel.' It was certainly good to see the one of the main actresses come back for the sequel - it helped bridge the gap quite nicely. The 'new' plot basically recycles the old one. If you don't know what happens - basically, bullied girl gets revenge on her tormentors through her uncontrollable telekinetic powers.Anyway, the film is actually pretty good. No, it'll never recapture the 'shock value' of the original as you basically know what's coming, but it's an enjoyable horror-yarn nonetheless. If you liked the original, you shouldn't feel too aggrieved at someone cashing in on the Carrie-name after two decades. And, if you haven't seen the first one, you should get what's going on without feeling you've missed out.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/