Over twenty years ago, Brian De Palma directed Carrie--the horror film classic based upon the Stephen King novel about a shy high school girl and the brutal revenge she takes upon her tormenting fellow students using her telekinetic powers. Now someone in their finite wisdom has seen fit to make a sequel.

To be fair, this sequel is not nearly as bad as it could have been. This time around, newcomer Emily Bergl plays the new social outcast with telekinesis. The themes are pretty much the same as they were in the first film, only updated to suit the 90s. The screenplay was written by Rafael Moreau (Hackers) and contains some really weak dialogue and pretentious situations. It also seems that director Katt Shea (Poison Ivy) wants to jump on the Kevin Williamson (Scream) bandwagon. Shea uses special effects to propel the story instead of using them as a tool--making the film another blood-soaked knock-off.

Carrie 2 isn't the trash it could have been, but it's still a sequel that never should have been made.