The Mangler 2 (2002)

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The Mangler 2: Graduation Day

Tagline(s):	Escape Before It Rips You Apart.
	You've Been Mangled.

Nomination Year: 2024

SYNOPSIS:

A "poor little rich girl" rebel objects to her father making her stay at this super-advanced preppy high school and hates all the rules and especially despises the principal (played by poor Lance Henriksen). So she goes on the (early) Dark Web and downloads a sapient killer computer virus to infect the state-of-the-art school's systems. The deaths begin almost at once. But this virus wants more than just mayhem and murder. It wants...HER.

Lance Henriksen's humiliation, which includes flying around in a stupid wired harness and spitting up white pudding when he dies (callback to, well, almost every role he's had since Bishop) is made all the more complete by the fact that they spelled his name wrong in the credits.

Bryan Cassidy

Smithee Award Nominations

Acting Appropriately Stupid
It's Perfectly Safe--ZZZAAP!!! They've finally escaped (so it seems) by shorting out the final barrier--an electric fence. But the Mangler isn't after the Chef (apparently). So of course Corey gets a little happy and declares "It's perfectly safe!" and jumps up and down on it. ZAP! Dead.

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Michael Hamilton-Wright	His only director credit...so far. But did write Retroactive and Dangerous Attraction. So...there's that.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Lance Henriksen	Principal Bradeen	Bishop in Alien(s), Frank Black on "Millennium," Ace Hanlon in The Quick and the Dead...he was in The Terminator, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and in a lot of Bad Movies, too! (Like the Piranha, Pumpkinhead, and Black Ops debacles.)
Chelse Swain	Jo Newton	AKA Chelsea Swain, she was Bonnie Lisbon in The Virgin Suicides; Susie in The Naked Ape; and June Smith in Georgia Rule.
Philippe Bergeron	Chef Lecours	Quebecquois actor who played Jean-Claude in 1998's Godzilla; Det. Lemieux in Iron Man 2; and a French Committee Member in Contact.
Dexter Bell	Will Walsh	A stuntman (like for Black Adam and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), he's been in a lot of small/background parts on a lot of TV shows.
Daniella Evangelista	Emily Stone	Canadian hottie who played Tracey Antonelli on "Edgemont"; Sharlene in Lucille's Ball; Mary-Anne Nordstrom in Ripper; and Anne in Wishmaster 3. Something of a scream queen.
Miles Meadows	Corey Banks	Canadian actor who has a smattering of one-shots on TV shows. Speaks a lot of languages.
Will Sanderson	Dan Channa	Not the hangdog guy from "Newhart," he's younger. Likes spooky films. Was Bastian in In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale; Greg in House of the Dead; and Agent Miles in Alone in the Dark.
Jeff Doucette	Janitor Bob	Prolific small-part character actor who was a desk sergeant in Bedazzled, Junior in Splash, Father Crowley on "Desperate Housewives," and was the voice of the Possum in 1998's Doctor Dolittle (the Eddie Murphy one).


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