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'The Rage: Carrie 2"
By Desson Howe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 12, 1999
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Emily Bergl stars as Carrie in "The Rage."
(MGM-UA)
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Director:
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Robert Mandel; Katt Shea
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Cast:
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Amy Irving;
Emily Bergl;
Jason London;
Dylan Bruno;
J. Smith Cameron;
Rachel Blanchard;
Zachary Ty Bryan |
Running Time:
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1 hour, 44 minutes
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Contains obscenity and bloody violence
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Even among the misguided, unethical, numskull ranks of so many, many film producers, it's hard to believe anyone had the idea to revisit Brian DePalma's "Carrie," which enjoyed a certain perverse perfection and narrative completion. When someone goes to Hell in a burning house in the first film, that ought to be pretty sequel-proof, don't you think? And you'd think Amy Irving (whose character is the lone survivor in the first picture's slaughter finale) would run screaming from a follow-up. But no, we have to go through the Carrie Thing again, with Irving playing a school guidance counselor and Emily Bergl playing Rachel, a Different Kind of Girl with the ability to send coffee cups flying. When Rachel's best friend Lisa (Mena Suvari) suffers a lover's suicide, this sets the telekinetic one on a destructive course, which messes up her budding affair with school stud (Jason London) and creates the same old bloodbath. Only reason to watch this: the grisly reward Irving receives for being in this picture.
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