The Rage: Carrie 2 Critic Reviews

Does what good horror movies do: It taps into the baser emotions.Read the full review

Emily Bergl plays the misfit heroine -- pale Goth grrrl Rachel Lang -- with a nicely sulky empathy, equal parts hurt and hope.Read the full review

Dares to take a different tack, taking its young people seriously in a more realistic context. If ever there was a director ready to graduate from genre films, it surely is Shea. [12 March, 1999, Calendar, p.F-6]Read the full review

Uninspired Update, Unintentional Laughs.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Better than an opportunistic sequel has any right to be, but still pretty flawed.Read the full review

The original was a Midol moment, this is a Prozac exercise. [12 March 1999, Life, p.8E]Read the full review

I have never been a fan of the original Carrie, but, despite the different slant offered by The Rage, there's not enough new material here for me to like the sequel any better.Read the full review

As generic in every aspect as Brian De Palma's original was inventive.Read the full review