| The Mangler 2 | |
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| Directed by | Michael Hamilton-Wright |
| Written by | Michael Hamilton-Wright |
| Produced by | Glen Tedham |
| Starring | Lance Henriksen Chelse Swain Philippe Bergeron Dexter Bell David Christensen Jeff Doucette Daniella Evangelista Miles Meadows Will Sanderson |
| Cinematography | Nobert Kaluza |
| Edited by | Anthony A. Lewis |
| Music by | Ferocious Le Fonque |
Production companies | Banana Brothers Entertainment Inc. Barnholtz Entertainment Mangler Productions |
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Running time | 97 min. |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
The Mangler 2 (also known as The Mangler 2: Graduation Day) is a 2002 Canadian horror film and a direct-to-video sequel to the 1995 theatrical release The Mangler, which was based on a 1972 short story of the same name by Stephen King. It stars Lance Henriksen and Chelse Swain. While the original was about a demon-possessed industrial laundry-machine, this film places the demon in a private school's computer network, where it manifests as a destructive computer virus with some of the same abilities as a ouija board.
The film was critically panned for, among other things, its similarity to another King adaptation, The Lawnmower Man (whose producers King sued to remove his name from the marketing, given its threadbare connection to his original story), and lack of relevance to its predecessor.