The Rage: Carrie 2

The Rage: Carrie 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKatt Shea
Written byRafael Moreu
Based onCarrie
by Stephen King
Produced byPaul Monash
Starring
CinematographyDonald M. Morgan
Edited byRichard Nord
Music byDanny B. Harvey
Production
companies
United Artists
Red Bank Films
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • March 12, 1999 (1999-03-12)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$21 million
Box office$17.8 million

The Rage: Carrie 2 is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Katt Shea, and starring Emily Bergl in her film debut, along with Jason London, Dylan Bruno, J. Smith-Cameron, and Amy Irving. It is a sequel to the 1976 film Carrie based on the 1974 novel by Stephen King, and serves as the second film in the Carrie franchise. Its plot follows Rachel Lang, the younger half-sister of Carrie White, also suffering with telekinesis, who finds that her best friend Lisa Parker's suicide was spurred by a group of popular male classmates who exploited her for sexual gain.

The film was originally titled The Curse and did not have connections to the Carrie novel or film, but was eventually rewritten to be a direct sequel to the 1976 film. It was shot on location in and around Charlotte, North Carolina in the spring of 1998.

The Rage: Carrie 2 was released on March 12, 1999, and was a box office bomb, grossing $17 million against a $21 million production budget. It received generally negative reviews, which criticized the routine recycling of the original film's story and themes. However, they widely praised the performance of Bergl, who was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for her work on the film at the 26th Saturn Awards. The film has received some retrospective commentary for its themes of rape culture and bullying in high schools.