Joanne 'Jo' Newton, a girl desperate for attention from her workaholic father, ends up going to an upper class private boarding school after she’s caught breaking into her dad's computer company.

Jo and several others students are forced to remain behind while the others leave for Spring Break, as punishment from the school's Dean, Headmaster Bradeen (Lance Henriksen).

However, Jo, with her knowledge of computers, hacks into the school's mainframe and unleashes a super virus called "Mangler 2.0" into the security system.

After getting a call from her father a message appears on the screen of Jo's cellphone saying "you've been mangled", implying that the virus is still alive.

[citation needed] AllMovie wrote: "Hardly a sequel to the Tobe Hooper version, [...] which wasn't all that good in the first place, The Mangler 2 showcases nothing but teen-horror genre shortcomings".