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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ½ 3

  Stephen’s King’dom Marathon: Film #55

  ”Useless piece of American garbage.
  I’ve had blenders that were smarter than you”

  From now on, whenever I see a really bad movie, as the end credits roll, I’m going to loudly declare: “You’ve Been Mangled!!”

  At least the first one was entertainingly bad, whereas this one is just bad… I mean like horrendously BAD. This was so far removed from the original, it would have made more sense to call it ‘The Breakfast Club 2”

  As bad as I felt watching this, I feel even worse for Lance Henriksen getting sucked into it like a helpless meat puppet.

  ”A lame time was had by all”

  
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  Review by CJ ½

  Do you ever worry you spend too much time watching films?

  Do you ever think maybe there comes a point where, as many millions of films there are in the world, you've seen every film that's worth seeing?

  Do you ever start to think... why does this film exist? What's the point?

  Do you ever think about the hours you've spent watching films and the percentage of your limited life on Earth this covers?

  Do you ever feel like no matter how much good there is in the world, it will be forever outweighed by the bad? There will be good films, you may feel like you've spent quality time with them, but there will also be bad, bad, very…

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  Review by Jayson Kennedy ½ 3

  Upon arriving back from summer, friends at a prep school are informed by headmaster Lance Henriksen that the building features a new military-grade security system controlling every facet of the institution. A virus, dubbed Mangler 2.0, corrupts the all-seeing program into targeting the group and remaining staff while everyone else is on a field trip during the first week of school...because that makes sense...

  Sorta like Class of 1999 (1990) and Chopping Mall (1986) except lazy and boring set to nu-metal slop. After the set-up above, it's a lot of running through dim hallways with a few implied deaths, the "best" being a nod to the nurse scene in The Exorcist III (1990). As the poster spoils, the thirty dollar…

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  Review by Carlo 666

  "We have such sights to show you." — Pinhead
  "Tell me what you want, what you really, really want." — Lance Henriksen...?!

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  Review by Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus ★

  Hooptober 4.1 - Watch #20 - Sequels

  Abysmally bad, in that beautiful early 2000's direct to DVD tech-horror sequel-in-name-only kind of way, which is to say, absolutely a blast, despite being deeply, truly awful. Full of stupid costumes, worse scripting, and even worse acting, The Mangler 2 is truly beautiful trash. Terrible, but highly recommended.

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  Review by Keenan Tamblyn ★★★ 3

  a.k.a. a film in which Lance Henriksen scarily quotes Spice Girls

  I love that in the grand pantheon of Stephen King adaptations the ones that generate franchises seem to be the least well remembered, I could count the friends I know on one hand who've seen a Children of the Corn sequel, not to mention Sometimes They Come Back 2 or 3, Firestarter Rekindled, Diary of Ellen Rimbauer or of course the two inexplicable Mangler sequels. Who in gods name asked for Mangler sequels? (other than me of course)

  I really enjoy that The Mangler 2 has no idea how to make technology seem dangerous, it's attempts seem completely pedestrian compared to the current hell we're living in. I get…

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  Review by va24mar ★

  2001 | Stephen King | Lance Henriksen

  Can someone please tell me who asked for a “The Mangler” sequel? Cause we need to get that person locked up, immediately!

  Tobe Hooper’s 1995 Stephen King adaption “The Mangler” is a pretty mediocre film. Not good, but not too bad either. I think most people really hated it when it came out and it wasn’t particularly successful at the box office, so the question I ask myself is, how does a film like that get a sequel? There is no money to be made, no prestige to be gained and no real fanbase to satisfy. Horror sequels and the never ending questions to why they exist. But let’s be honest, most of us live for this…

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  Review by Rutledal ★

  A girl downloads a computer virus to the school’s mainframe to get revenge on sex pest dean Lance Henriksen. Somehow this makes stuff that aren’t related computers at all, like an old washing machine, also evil.

  There is a scene where it keeps just cutting to the same shot with a slight dip to white effect on every cut but there’s no progress in time. It’s just drawing attention to its own baffling decision.

  Void of redeeming features, even Lance Henriksen might be embarrassed by this one. Probably the worst movie I’ll see this  year.

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  Review by Geoff ★

  I'm gonna be miserable tomorrow because I stayed up to watch this fucking thing. somebody decided to use the lucrative and prestigious Mangler intellectual property to make an evil computer virus movie. the main girl LOVES fractals and uses them to destroy the mangler 2.0 (the virus). lots of music that sounds like Orgy or Stabbing Westward on the soundtrack. lots of drum and bass too for some reason. this shit sucks. the original movie is about a giant evil laundry machine. why did they make a movie about a computer virus that kills people off screen with garden shears and call it Mangler. what is this shit. I'm so tired.

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  Review by Fred Andersson ★ 2

  Sometimes I question why I even watch movies.

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  Review by Königin der Ameisen ★

  Anfang der 2000er hatten Direct-to-DVD Produktionen Hochkonjuktur, weswegen so ziemlich jede Lizenz, die nicht bei 3 auf dem Baum war, noch zu Fortsetzungsehren kam. So auch The Mangler nach Stephen King, wobei die besagte Wäschemangel aus überhaupt nicht einsehbaren Gründen mit einem Computerprogramm namens Mangler 2 (ja, die Zahl im Titel ist hier auch gleich im Namen drin) getauscht wird. Fortan werden notgeile Teens in einem Internat unblutig im Off gekillt. Womit der Film auch das letzte Fünckchen an Schauwert verspielt. Aus der Perspektive ist Mangler 2 sogar fast dreist gegenüber den vielen Kinder des Zorns und Hellraiser jener Tage. Naja, obwohl...

  Einfallslose Figurenzeichnung, kaum Effekte und viel zu viel Leerlauf zwischen den Kills. Völlige Zeitverschwendung.

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  Review by Roxxi ✞ ★★

  From the writer of the Heather Graham comedy "Baby on Board" comes another flop in the Mangler franchise!!

  I truly thought this would be perfect because It's like the Hellraiser: Hellworld of the series, just ridiculous amounts of techno music and digital imagery, everyone's talking about the internet and viruses and stuff, just very dumb Y2K aesthetics. When the main character went on a website called HACKER GAL CHAT and declared out loud that "once again, the internet is my friend!" I really felt I'd found a kindred spirit.

  But sadly, somehow, I enjoyed the Heather Graham pregnancy comedy more than I enjoyed this, and if there's any one thing I'm grateful for, It's my ability to make everything about Heather Graham, so thank you to this movie for the degree of separation.