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2[[caption-width-right:300:''[[{{Tagline}} Every teen thinks terrible thoughts. Hers are deadly.]]'']]
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4''The Rage: Carrie 2'' is a 1999 {{horror}} film and a direct sequel to ''Film/Carrie1976'', starring Creator/EmilyBergl, Creator/JasonLondon, Creator/MenaSuvari, and Creator/AmyIrving.
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6Teen outcast Rachel Lang sees her best friend Lisa kill herself after a JerkJock has sex with her in order to score points in a "game" he's playing with the rest of the team. Rachel seeks revenge against the football players that caused her friend's suicide, and along the way, learns that she possesses psychic powers. She develops a crush on Jesse, [[TokenGoodTeammate one of the wiser football players]], and the two enter a relationship -- much to the ire of Jesse's teammates, who start plotting against Rachel. Meanwhile, school guidance counselor Sue Snell -- a survivor from the original film -- finds out about Rachel's powers and steps in to help her, fearing a repeat of what happened with Carrie. Everything comes to a head at the after-party for a football game, where the jocks play a tape of Rachel and Jesse having sex.
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8Needless to say, [[BerserkButton that party does not end well]].
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10''The Rage'' was part of the post-''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'' wave of hip, [[{{Postmodernism}} post-modern]] teen horror films, and it was [[DolledUpInstallment originally planned as a standalone film]] titled ''The Curse''.
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13!!This movie contains examples of:
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15* AbusiveParents: While not as bad as [[HolierThanThou Margaret White]], Rachel's foster parents are very neglectful, and the father has no problem hitting her. In an early scene, it's strongly implied that the only reason they raise her is to [[OnlyInItForTheMoney get the $300 per month paid to them by the foster care system]].
16* AlphaBitch: Most of the female characters fall under this trope, except Rachel and Lisa -- and the latter's death opens the film.
17* ArtifactTitle: Hey, guess who actually isn't in this movie outside of flashbacks! Then again, she ''[[JustifiedTrope did]]'' die at the end of the original film, and Rachel is later revealed to be her half-sister.
18* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Sue tries to get Eric done for statutory rape, because he's over eighteen and Lisa wasn't. Except there are actually 'close in age' laws, also known as 'Romeo & Juliet Laws' designed specifically to account for these kinds of age differences. But then SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and Eric isn't convicted.
19* AssholeVictim: Just about all the teens Rachel targets deserve what they get.
20* BaldOfEvil: The jocks all shave their heads before the big game, so have bald heads when terrorizing Rachel at the end.
21* BerserkButton: Rachel reacts very badly to any suggestion that she might be put in a mental hospital, given what happened to her mother.
22* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Jesse survives and Rachel kills all of her bullies during her rampage but she dies as well to Jesse's grief. On top of that, Sue was killed while trying to stop Rachel's rampage, and other than adopting Rachel's dog, Jesse is now completely alone. He also has nightmares about Rachel dissolving into pieces in front of him, the way Sue had nightmares, implying that the cycle of RedemptionFailure is going to continue]].
23* BullyingADragon: This film shows why you should ''really'' lay off the schoolyard bullying when you know someone has powers (and if you don't, nobody whose life has any value will miss you).
24* ChekhovsParty: The party after the big game where the massacre happens is mentioned several times near the beginning before Jesse invites Rachel. It's where she ultimately kills almost everyone.
25* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Seeing that it's a direct sequel to ''Film/Carrie1976''...
26** Rachel to Carrie: Both girls are telekinetic loners, but unlike her half-sister, Rachel is more assertive, has a best friend, manifested powers at a young age, placed in foster care, and completely aware of her massacre.
27** Barbara to Margaret: Both mothers are religiously insane fundamentalists, but unlike Margaret, Barbara lost custody of Rachel very earlier, committed to a mental hospital for schizophrenia and survives to the end of the movie.
28** Jesse to Tommy: The LoveInterests of Rachel and Carrie respectively, with the former in love with Rachel and survives to the end as well while the latter is still dating Sue and dies at the beginning of the prom disaster.
29** Mark to Chris: The BigJerkOnCampus and AlphaBitch main antagonists. But Mark actively tries to murder Rachel during her rampage while Chris tries to run away from Carrie's. This may be an allusion to [[Literature/{{Carrie}} the book]], where Chris ''also'' tries to murder Carrie by screaming at Billy to "kill her [Carrie]."
30* ConvenientPhotograph: Rachel finds out that Eric was the person who seduced Lisa and caused her suicide due to developing the photograph that Lisa gave her. It also becomes a {{Macguffin}} as the only solid proof that Eric knew Lisa and played a role in her suicide and of the game more broadly, so the jocks want it back before Rachel can damage their college prospects.
31* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: After they have sex, Jesse tells a sleeping Rachel that he loves her. [[spoiler:Those three words save his life.]]
32* CorruptPolitician: The D.A. agrees to cover up the facts about Lisa's suicide, because the football players all come from very influential families and he thinks they could hurt him in the upcoming election. Suffice to say, he pays for it.
33* CreatorCameo: Director Katt Shea shows up as the deputy DA in the scene where Eric and his father are looking to challenge the statutory rape charges Eric is facing.
34* CureYourGays: Mark claims that Jesse scored a "conversion" by sleeping with Rachel, who had previously [[SorryImGay blown Mark off by claiming she was a lesbian]]. And he says it [[TooDumbToLive directly to Rachel's face]].
35* DeathSeeker: It's hinted that Rachel may be this. After Lisa's suicide, she has a dream where she's the one who kills herself, and after being abandoned by her mother at the end, she loses all hope and tearfully prays for her own death.
36* DissonantSerenity: The first warning that Lisa's about to kill herself is how oddly happy she's acting, which Rachel doesn't realize until too late. She's also eerily composed in the moments right before she jumps.
37* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The HateSink {{Jerk Jock}}s (save for [[TokenGoodTeammate Jesse]], of course) all shave their heads prior to the climax. [[UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}} Hmmm...]]
38* DolledUpInstallment: The film was originally written as ''The Curse'', a movie that had no connection to ''Carrie'' in any form. It was retitled and rewritten to add a connection to ''Carrie'', presumably because somebody pointed out the obvious similarities and decided that calling it a sequel would let it cash in on the success of the original (and help avoid accusations of UsefulNotes/{{plagiarism}}).
39* DramaticIrony: The viewer knows about the "game" from the start. While Rachel is obviously pissed about Eric's role in Lisa's suicide, she doesn't know exactly what was going on until the party, when the jocks show her their "scorebook" and even make fun of her death to Rachel's face.
40* DrivenToSuicide: Lisa kills herself at school after Eric dumps her.
41* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Sue dies]] the moment she arrives at the party. The irony is that it was a complete accident on Rachel's part since she didn't know who was outside.
42* EyeScream: Rachel uses her powers to smash Monica's glasses and shove the broken glass into her eyes.
43* FallingChandelierOfDoom: A girl ends up dying this way by being cut by/crushed underneath it.
44* FalseFriend: The jocks' female friends all befriend Rachel as a means of luring her into their prank, though Monica goes the furthest with her facade by "bonding" with Rachel at the mall.
45* FinalBoy: Jesse is the last person left alive to face Rachel. [[spoiler:She saves him when she realizes that he truly did love her and had no part in the prank played on her.]]
46* TheFundamentalist: Rachel's original mother is one of these, and she loses custody of her daughter and gets sent to an [[BedlamHouse insane asylum]] in the first five minutes. She is possibly a {{deconstruction}} of Margaret White from the original, as Social Services would never let a woman so [[AxCrazy violently insane]] raise a child by herself.
47* GenderFlip:
48** Mark, Tracy, and Eric are a gender-flipped version of the original film's high school villains (Chris, Billy, and Norma). Mark is the ringleader of the plan to humiliate the protagonist and has a personal grudge against her (Chris), Tracy is Mark's equally nasty lover who goes along with the plan (Billy), and Eric is Mark's [[MinionWithAnFInEvil comparatively likable, yet still evil, best friend]] (Norma).
49** Jesse also counts as a gender-flipped version of Sue, the popular kid who sympathizes with the put-upon heroine and [[TheAtoner tries to make amends for past jerkass behavior]].
50* GoneHorriblyRight: The bullies wanted Rachel to think that Jesse, the one person keeping her from snapping, has betrayed her. They succeeded.
51* {{Gorn}}: Compared to Carrie's rampage in the original, Rachel's killing spree is a complete bloodbath. Highlights include a dual impalement on a fire poker, [=CDs=] tossed like throwing stars, and a GroinAttack with a harpoon gun.
52%%* {{Goth}}: Rachel and Lisa.
53* GothGirlsKnowMagic: A particularly notable example of this, given that, in [[Film/Carrie1976 the original 1976 film]] and [[Literature/{{Carrie}} the book it was based on]], not only was Carrie White not a goth in the slightest, but her ultra-religious upbringing meant that she wore extremely modest, earth-colored clothes, with some of her tormentors (particularly the {{Greaser Delinquent|s}} Billy and his friends) wearing [[HellBentForLeather far more black]] than she did. Twenty years later, however, goths had become ''the'' stereotypical teen outcast (and associated with witchcraft and PsychicPowers, to boot), and so the new protagonist Rachel Lang was made a sexy goth chick.
54* GothsHaveItHard: Rachel Lang is an unstable, depressed goth (although [[FreudianExcuse for good reason]] in mourning for her best friend Lisa, and fantasizes that it was her who died, shortly before [[spoiler:murdering as many people as she can in a house fire]].
55* GroinAttack: Seconds after the EyeScream moment described above, a blinded and dying Monica fires her spear gun into Eric's crotch, ripping his balls off and sending them into the pool.
56* HighSchool: Just like the last film, the main character and most of the supporting cast are all high school students.
57* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Just when it seems Rachel's mother is going to comfort her injured daughter following her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she slips right back into her religious zealotry and flees from Rachel, believing her to be possessed.]]
58* HopeSpot:
59** Sue realizes what is going to happen with Rachel and goes to stop the humiliation before it can end in another bloodbath. There's a chance she may succeed given her history with traumatized psychics and counselor training. [[spoiler:Rachel ends up killing Sue the minute she arrives]].
60** Villainous example; when the rampage starts, Monica, Erik and Mark, the main instigators, have the sense to arm themselves. Mark even gets in a shot at Rachel, so that she falls into a swimming pool. [[spoiler:She drowns him by taking advantage of him checking to see that she was dead, and trapped him using the pool cover]].
61* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Sue suffers this fate as she arrives at Mark's house and tries to get in, but Rachel throws a fire poker through the door, impaling her and Brad's heads who tries to escape]].
62* ImportantHaircut: Before the big game, the football team all shave their heads in an act of manliness. Jesse refuses to take part in it, symbolizing the divide between him and his teammates.
63* JerkassToOne: Rachel is a nice girl for the most part, but becomes increasingly hostile toward Sue, as she believes Sue wants to have her put away because of her powers.
64* JerkJock: With the exception of Jesse, the entire football team is a straight example, rating girls according to how hot they are and scoring points with each other for having sex with them.
65* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: After Lisa's suicide, Eric at first seems appropriately remorseful for what happened, but it's only because he's afraid of facing the consequences for it. After he's let off the hook, his true colors come out, and he goes so far as to make fun of her to Rachel's face.
66* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The D.A. lets the boys off the hook for what is essentially statutory rape and harassment combined into one.[[spoiler: He regrets it when their next victim murders them and burns them alive, while also committing suicide. This also leads to the death of a teacher who was involved in a similar mishap as a teenager]]. Safe to say, he won't be getting reelected.
67* KarmicDeath:
68** Eric seduced and humiliated Lisa so eggregiously that she committed suicide. [[spoiler:He dies when a harpoon to the nuts ends up castrating him]].
69** Likewise, Mark concocts a huge plan to humiliate Rachel for the crime of dating Jesse. When she starts on her rampage, he manages to shoot her with a flare gun but makes the mistake to go near the swimming pool where she fell rather than either run for it or prepare to shoot if she reappears. [[spoiler:She leaves him to die under the pool cover, where he drowns]].
70* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Rachel dies after getting trapped in the burning mansion.]]
71* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Rachel turns out to be Carrie's half-sister, the two of them having both been fathered by Ralph White.]]
72* TheLostLenore: In the final scene, Jesse has a picture of Rachel on his desk and has [[PetTheDog adopted her dog]]. It's clear by the look on his face that he still misses her.
73* LovableJock: Jesse rejects his teammates' boorish behavior, and develops genuine feelings for Rachel.
74* MarkedChange: After Rachel goes berserk, her tattoo of a thorny rose starts spreading itself all over her body, causing her to look as though she is covered in vines.
75* PassThePopcorn: A group of stoners sits outside the party in their truck, watching as Rachel burns the place down. One of them comments, "Dude, we're missing [[IncrediblyLamePun one killer party]]."
76%%* PersonOfMassDestruction: Rachel.
77* PomPomGirl: Downplayed. Head cheerleader Tracy may act encouraging and plucky during her cheer routine, but is an AlphaBitch and CruelCheerleader the rest of the time. However, the other girls from the cheer practice at the beginning who make up her pyramid play the trope straighter, as they also take cheerleading seriously and aren't shown hanging out with the sociopathic popular clique.
78* PsychicPowers: They're what make her a PersonOfMassDestruction.
79* {{Retcon}}: In the original book, Ralph White died in a construction accident in 1963 and Carrie's powers came from her mother's side of the family. In the 1976 film, it's revealed that Ralph left Margaret for another woman.
80* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The JerkJock villains were based on an actual incident -- specifically, that of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spur_Posse Spur Posse]], a group of athletes at a California high school who took their name from their leader's fandom of a player on the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation San Antonio Spurs]]. The Posse used a points system to keep track of and compare their sexual conquests amongst the group. Unlike this film's group of {{Asshole Victim}}s, the Spur Posse were [[KarmaHoudini let off on charges of statutory rape]] and later [[FifteenMinutesOfFame had a run on the tabloid "trash TV" circuit afterwards]].
81* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Rachel in the end, following in the footsteps of her half-sister.
82* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Rachel begins her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, you can see one of the extras fighting his way through the closing glass doors.
83* SequelTheOriginalTitle: "The Rage" and then "Carrie", with a "2" thrown in for good measure.
84* SexSignalsDeath: Lisa has sex with Eric and is dumped, causing her to commit suicide due to feeling DefiledForever. Rachel and Jesse having sex [[spoiler:leads to everyone else's deaths, though Jesse himself survives.]]
85* ShoutOut:
86** Mark imitates Ghostface's voice from ''Film/Scream1996'' when he prank calls Rachel.
87** At the end of the film, Jesse is attending "[[Creator/StephenKing Kings]] University".
88** As noted on under ThemeNaming, there are characters named [[Series/{{Friends}} Rachel, Monica, and Bing]].
89** The asylum Rachel's mother is at? Arkham. Could be a shout-out to either Creator/HPLovecraft or Franchise/{{Batman}}; either works.
90** The orphaned but gentle and good-natured Rachel has a ShadowArchetype EvilCounterpart in the pampered and loved but [[SpoiledBrat spoiled and cunning]] Tracy. This seems like a reverse scenario of a character dynamic from a certain [[VideoGame/BattleArenaToshinden cult classic fighting game's third installment....]]
91* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Averted, unlike the original film. Not only does Social Services put Rachel in foster care the moment they find out how her mother is abusing her, they send her mother to a mental hospital as well.
92* SorryImGay: Mark’s attempts to bribe Rachel in order to get his hands on the pictures of him and Lisa, first with money and then with sex, don't go so well.
93-->'''Mark:''' How about I swing by when you get off work, I'll take you out for a little cruise? Come on, I don't bite. Unless you want me to.\
94'''Rachel:''' I don't think so.\
95'''Mark:''' Why not?\
96'''Rachel:''' 'Cause I'm a dyke.
97* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Tracy dismisses Lisa's suicide, saying she "wasn't anybody", and at the party, Eric and the other jocks mock her death to Rachel's face.
98* StartsWithASuicide: The film begins with Rachel's best friend Lisa jumping from the school rooftop after finding out that Eric, who she gave her virginity to, was only dating her for sex in order to score literal points with his buddies.
99* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Sue Snell, a survivor from the original film, dies during this film's climax.]]
100* SymbolicGlassHouse: The party happens in a glass house, where the glass walls are used to project the video of Rachel and Jesse having sex. It's also used for visual effect when Rachel shuts the doors telekinetically, but everyone can still be seen inside, struggling as they die.
101* ThemeNaming: Rachel, Monica, and Bing all share their names with characters from ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
102* ThereAreNoTherapists: Subverted. Sue Snell is one of the main characters and also a survivor from Carrie's rampage in the original, who works as a school counselor. She attempts to stop Rachel from doing the same thing Carrie did. [[spoiler:She doesn't survive the sequel, though.]]
103* WasItAllALie: Rachel to Jesse after finding out about The Game.
104--> ''Is that all I was to you, Jesse? Thirty points?''
105* WildTeenParty: This replaces the prom from the original film as the location for the finalé.
106* WouldHitAGirl: Rachel's adoptive father Boyd slaps her across the face after catching her sneaking into the house late after her date with Jesse. The football players also appeared ready to do harm to Rachel when they harass her at her house, with Eric appearing ready to ''beat her up while wearing brass knuckles'' had Rachel not used her powers to scare them off.
107* ZenSurvivor: Sue Snell, one of the few survivors of Carrie White's hellacious rampage, works as a school counselor. When she learns about Rachel's powers, she immediately steps in to try to help Rachel so she doesn't cause a similar catastrophe. [[spoiler:She fails — and dies during Rachel's bloody rampage, to boot.]]
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