 
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.
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