Main Cast: Lance Henriksen, William Sanderson, Chelse Swain
Release Year: 2001
Country: US
Run Time: 96 minutes
Plot
Troubled and wealthy student Jo (Chelse Swain) inadvertently loads in a secret, deadly experimental computer virus -- Mangler 2.0 -- into her college's high-tech system. Soon, the school's security system has the ability to turn washing machines into deadly weapons, and no one is safe, not even innocent coeds trying to get their whites their whitest. Worst of all, the school's headmaster (Lance Henriksen) has taken to the virus, so much so in fact, he lets it infect his very body -- he becomes part of the machine. Soon, someone will have to stop him before it's too late. And right now can't be soon enough. ~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide
Review
Hardly a sequel to the Tobe Hooper version of the Stephen King short story The Mangler, which wasn't all that good in the first place, The Mangler 2 showcases nothing but teen-horror genre shortcomings: characters that are more irritating than sympathetic (they should all die), a fantasy technological leap of faith that few are going to make (the computer system can reach out with a pair of hedge clippers? Please), and a plodding pace that betrays the filmmakers' lack of compelling material. Is there anything redeemable in this steaming pile of low-budget...footage? In a word, no. With the right amount of prescription painkillers, some of the lines might be funny, but only inadvertently. ~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide
