Written & Directed by: Michael Hamilton-Wright Starring: Chelse Swain .... Joanne 'Jo' Newton Daniella Evangelista .... Emily Stone Miles Meadows .... Corey Banks Will Sanderson .... Dan Channa Dexter Bell .... Will Walsh Philippe Bergeron .... Chef Lecours Lance Henriksen .... Headmaster Bradeen Release Date: Direct-to-Video: February 26, 2002 Rating:

A juvenile delinquent named Jo Newton (Chelse Swain) gets sent to a university at Royal Collegiate College after trying committing a crime as her father is the head of the police department.
She doesn't adjust too well with the students or the headmaster at the school named Bradeen (Lance Henriksen) so she decides to load a virus in thei school's art computer system but she mistakenly downloads a program called Mangler 2.0 as it's an evil spirit inside the program that breaks loose into the school and kills the people there.
Jo and the other survivors try to escpae the Mangler 2.0's evil wrath and also takes a risk at trying to destroy it.

At first the film looks like it's going to be really bad with a terrible budget and non scary too but it picks up.
Not the greatest film by any means but there's lots of fun touches to it regardless.
Bares no relationship to the first film by any means which is why I don't understand why they named this Mangler 2.

The acting is very well done for a B-grade horror film. Chelse Swain was really convincing as a teenage outcast delinquent and is a natural character.
Daniella Evangelista played the perfect stuck up arrogant bitch in the film as you want to smack her for being so snobby.
Miles Meadows was great as a typical party animal getting into all sorts of mischief. A very talented local actor too. I met him on many occasions.
Supporting character celebrity actor Lance Henriksen played a nice stern headmaster at the school.

A guy is badly scarred from a computer electrocuting him.
Some blood. But really, this film had no horror violence or gore at all.

Michael Hamilton-Wright isn't at all too shabby with his work in this film.
He shows interesting camera shots on Chelse Swain breaking into a place during the beginning of the film as it's the key scene to why she was forced to college.
There's a good scene with Lance Henriksen giving a stern lecture to the students about a rule they broke and theratening to cancel the prom.
There's a nice scene involving the young actors Swain and the others when she talks to them at the swimming pool room about breaking into the computer with the virus as they look like typical teenagers having a conversation.
We have suspenseful shots of the accidental killings giving that Final Destination feel to it as well as good reactions by the cast members when they happen.
Also, there's a great reaction on supporting actor Philippe Bergeron after being trapped in a freezing room in the kitchen cafeteria which makes the scene humorous yet terrifying as you think to yourself he could've froze to death.
There's a perfect silent and shocked reaction on Swain after she goes on her laptop to try and destroy thais Mangler 2.0 and the computer talks to her.
Then we have a dark setting with a flashlight flickering when a machine comes in to kill and you wonder if anyone will survive as you sdon't see what's happening.
Then we have a confrontation involving Swain and Henriksen but I won't give that away. However, it looked very good.

Fercious LeFonque composes techno music for the film which I'm not wild over and is better off doing music for a current David DeCoteau flick.

The DVD Features:

• Digitally mastered
  16 x 9 anamorphic widescreen
  Aspect ratio 1.78:1
  5.1 Digital Surround
  2.0 Stereo Surround
  Audio commentary track with director/writer Michael Hamilton Wright, producer Glen Tedham, and actor Philippe Bergeron
  Interactive motion menus
  20 chapters with motion images
  Biographies and filmographies of cast and filmmakers
  Theatrical trailer
  Photo gallery
  Behind-the-scenes featurette
  2 music videos
  Outtakes reel
  Optional English subtitles
  Optional Spanish subtitles
  English closed captioned

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Canada	VHS	DVD
U.K.	DVD
France	DVD

Corey Banks: It's all about big brother.

Dan Channa: It's so sexy when you talk computer talk.