With nothing to do with the original, this has a private college having a top-notch computer security system being installed which soon becomes quite evil (which is shown by coiled wires wrapping around people and grabbing axes, etc.) when infected with a computer virus called "The Mangler". So soon the group of students (who aren't monitored at all) and faculty that didn't go on a field trip are soon getting attacked and killed.

This is certainly pointless, especially as a sequel; managing to be tedious, packed with really bad "pop culture" dialogue (like the whole exchange about "porno names"), junky stoner humour, weak deaths (especially the dumb "hedge clipper" moment and "laundry press suck" moment - which must have been meant as a reference to the original) and a techno score that's out-of-place and annoying.

Even character actor favourite Lance Henriksen can't save this as the strict head master (who is barely in it and turns up "wired" in the finale), Phillipe Bergeron has the thankless job of comic relief as a French chef (who always has a cigarette obviously attached to his lip - one time it's not even lit) and Daniella Evangelista is eye candy and nothing more. Lead Chelse Swain is the sister of Dominique.

Most groanable moment: when a knife comes through the crack in a freezer door and Evangelista's character says, "that better not be a cow".

Lousy.

Directed By: Michael Hamilton-Wright.
Written By: Michael Hamilton-Wright.

Starring: Chelse Swain, Phillipe Bergeron, Dexter Bell, David Christensen.