Contrary to popular belief, the first Mangler film was actually very good. While nothing overly amazing, it's still a fun, thrilling and at times profound story of an ideal small town mostly employed by a laundry factory with a dark secret inside. Riddled with corruption, abuse and hellish working conditions, this factory also has the Mangler, an enormous warehouse-sized laundry mangle with a taste for human blood. It becomes up to a detective, his parapsychologist best friend, a dying crime scene photographer and a teenage girl to put a stop to the terror once and for all.
So, what does The Mangler 2 have to do with any of this? Well, aside from having the same name as the first film, it doesn't really continue the story at all. In fact, the evil laundry mangle is out of the picture, as are all the film's main characters. The Mangler 2 follows a college student who installs a computer virus (because EVERYTHING in this day and age has to be digital, eh?) and the virus, called 'Mangler 2.0', attacks people... and, yup, that's about it...
The entire story was terrible, the acting was pathetic, the scenes of violence and gore were fake-looking and annoying, and the script was garbage. This movie definitely isn't worth anything, and the only thing scary about it was that somebody thought it needed to exist.
So, what does The Mangler 2 have to do with any of this? Well, aside from having the same name as the first film, it doesn't really continue the story at all. In fact, the evil laundry mangle is out of the picture, as are all the film's main characters. The Mangler 2 follows a college student who installs a computer virus (because EVERYTHING in this day and age has to be digital, eh?) and the virus, called 'Mangler 2.0', attacks people... and, yup, that's about it...
The entire story was terrible, the acting was pathetic, the scenes of violence and gore were fake-looking and annoying, and the script was garbage. This movie definitely isn't worth anything, and the only thing scary about it was that somebody thought it needed to exist.