Carrie 2: The Rage

The movie follows the story of Carrie's half-sister, Rachel, who was mentioned only by name at the end of the book.

Apparently, she's even creepier.

Cue creepy music and ambiance. It starts with a crazy woman painting her ridiculously religious house. I know it's red paint, but - ew, it just looks so much like blood. Red room! Red room! Red Room!

This woman is Rachel's mum. Then we see Rachel. She looks very young and she wants to play.

"Hey, I got an idea!" she says adorably. Her mother paints her face.

Cut to Rachel's mother beint taken to a mental asylum. She screams, "Rachel! Rachel!"

My heart just broke.

But Rachel's just standing there, with red paint all ove.r her face. She is being conforted by a cop. "Your mom's gonna be okay," he assures her. "Is your dad around?"

 "I don't have a father."

The officer says he's gonna take her with a really nice family, but Rachel's not happy about it. She runs inside the house and starts moving stuff with her mind.

Jerks.

Rachel's all grown up now. She lives in a nice house, with some nice foster parents and a nice dog. They mention her mum: she's taking medications and getting better. This is clearly an awkward topic for Rachel, because she heads off to school.
On the bus, she meets her BFF, Lisa, who looks unusually cheerful. The reason? She lost her virginity to one of the popular kids, Erik Stark. Wow, no way that could go wrong...

Erik tells his friends how he did Lisa. They keep a notebook with scores for all the girls. Now I really want to slap this guy in the face.

But, to be honest, I think he really does kinda like her - he smiles at her when he sees her.
His friends catalogue Lisa as a Coyote date - too ugly.
Now, you little sons of little bitches, not only are you blind, but you also make me physically sick. Each second I want more to punch your pretty faces. In what dystopic world do you consider Mena Suvari a Coyote Girl? And I'm a girl.

Exhibit A.

Exhibit B.

Nothing better to explain my bitter feelings that angry
Sherlock beating a corpse.

We're now inside Rachel's English class, whith a teacher who clearly hasn't understood Romeo & Juliet at all. Rachel doesn't believe in love. "Who would love her?", the Alpha Bitch snarks.

Lunch time. Some pervert is videotaping the Alpha Bitch's - Jessie's ex-girlfriend's - arse. "Could you refrain from shooting my ass?" she says. What the hell is wrong with this people?

Lisa climbs the stairs to the gardening club. She looks miserable. Rachel realizes her absence and starts looking for her. The bells start ringing as Lisa gets dangerously close to the edge of the roof and then jumps.
"Did you see that?" asks one girl. There were people in the gardening club. THERE WERE PEOPLE IN THE GARDENING CLUB. How come no one tried to stop her?
She falls on a car and breaks the window. Everyone starts to crowd around her. Rachel is very upset and starts breaking stuff with her mind. Lisa's crush looks upset too, so I won't punch him in the face this time. However, I will gladly punch videocamera guy for asking, "Ooh, man. Whose car is this?"

How appropiate.

Rachel talks to the counselor - she's Sue Snell from the first book. Oh my.
While they're emptying Lisa's locker, they find something - she killed herself because of Erik. He, of course, feels guilty.
At work, Rachel's printing the photos Lisa gave her earlier. They are pictures of her date with Erik.
The popular kids - I'mma call 'em poopies from now on - come to bother Rachel. They want to buy her pictures and are utterly cruel.
Sue Snell interrogates Rachel the next day. She, just like me, is outraged. It seems like only the girls are capable of a little empathy in this world.
She has a flashback from the first movie that scares the crap outta me: Carrie having her period in the shower while Sue throws tampons at her.

I only wish that wall was her face. Also, Barney has fists
of steel.

Jesse is shagging that bitch-whatever-her-name-is in his car. The poopies are waiting for him and they congratulate him. I hate them more as time passes. I hope they die.
Bitch brushes her her. Erik tries to talk to her about the suicidal girl, but Bich doesn't care because 'she wasn't anybody'.
LISTEN TO ME. I DON'T CARE WETHER THIS GIRL WAS POPULAR OR NOT, SHE WAS A HUMAN BEING AND SHE DESERVES TO BE TREATED AS SUCH, YOU LITTLE FEELINGLESS SELFISH SLUT. *breathes in a bag* OK, I'm ready to go on.
So, Rachel's dog, Walter, is offed by a car. She picks him up and stops a car by breaking the window with her powers. It's Jesse. He takes Walter to the vet. He'll get better. Rachel and Jesse have dinner together. They talk about Lisa.

Sue talks to Rachel. She's looked at Rachel's file and it says her mum has schizofrenia
Rachel is all quiet, while Sue confesses her that she was in a mental asylum once. This was something I considered when I read the first book: I could imagine that Sue would go crazy, feeling guilty for what happened.

DAMN!

Rachel moves a cup with her mind. Sue realizes she has THE SHINING! (No, wait, that's from a different movie.) Rachel starts being creepy around Erik, slamming his locker closed and saying, "I know. I know what you did to her." Oh, and he gets suspended.

Then we see Jesse and Rachel flirting. I'm beginning to like this guy. You can't even tell he's a poopie. He asks her out - ZOMG!

The poopies are doing shenanigans at Rachel's, while she has a breakdown. They try to scare the crap out of her. When Jesse finds out, he's not happy about it and starts to defend her by saying that she's a very nice girl.

Finally, a male character that doesn't make me want to kill him.

Also, Rachel's foster dad started out good, but he's a douchebag. Rachel gets the blame for the bricks the poopies have thrown at her windows.
Sue has Rachel tested.
Rachel goes on a date with Jesse, they make out and I'm reminded of Thriller for some reason (I wonder if it's just me). Rachel says she wants her first time to be special, and he says it's okay.

Sue goes to the mental asylum to find out more about Rachel. She talks to Rachel's mother, who's convinced Rachel's the Devil. She tells her, eventually, that Carrie's father was the same as Rachel's.
Sue takes Rachel to the old high school - it looks creepy. Cool.
Erik gets in trouble and his father argues with the headmaster, just like in the first movie with Chris.
The Alpha Bitch gets angry when she sees Jesse talking to Rachel. "Okay, if he's gonna do it, you know, be seen talking in public with someone else, he should show some respect. I mean, he should show me the respect, at least to be seen with someone pretty, someone cool, someone who counts, you know, someone. But instead, it's her."

What school is this? The special school for sociopaths?

Rachel is buying make up and the Alpha Bitch's Best Friend (TM) talks to her and tells her that she doesn't really like Tracy, and asks her about Jesse. Then, she starts to try lipstick on Rachel. Ooh! Is this the typical scene from every teen movie ever made where the already pretty girl gets an unnecesary makover? She invites Rachel to a party. For the party, Rachel puts on a lot of skanky make-up. See? This is the unnecesary makeover I was talking about.
When Rachel comes home after having slow-mo sex with Jesse, her father slaps her and grounds her for a week, so she can't go to the party. Man, what an asshole - though I must say, my parents would have been worse about it.

Then we see a random big-lipped alligator moment of some guy shaving his head as Rachel watches the game on TV. Meanwhile, Sue tries to get Rachel to talk to her mother. And Jesse wins the game.
Time for the WILD TEENAGER PARTAY! While Rachel's at the fiesta and all the Jerk Jocks who look like skinheads with their head shaved want to dance with her, the Alpha Bitch tries to corrupt Jesse.
At the fiesta, Rachel finds out about the points and everyone laughs at her and play a sex tape of her. Her tatoo starts to grow. Enter violence. I'm sorry, but there was too much blood so I stopped looking. All of the jackasses get killed - I think - and Sue gets impalled. The house is set on fire.
Rachel's mum finally sees her and says she's the Devil. Then, here's this tear-jerker: "Please, momma, don't leave me! I don't have anyone!" She lies on the floor, crying. "Please, heart, let me die."
Jesse and The Bitch come looking for Rachel. She kills Tracy right away but spares Jesse to confront him, believing she was part of their game. He tells her that he loves her, but she doesn't believe him... or does she? They starte into each other's eyes... until something falls on Rachel. Her dying words are, 'I love you'. One year later, at university, Jesse is studying when the window opens itself and Rachel enters... and then this happens.

Holy shit, that almost gave me a heart attack! WTF?

Anyway, while the movie's not terribly bad, I expected something better, given the epicness of the original movie.