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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236161110
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: LGED16111D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 17, 2004
Running Time: 77 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 1986
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/17/2004 Run time: 77 minutes Rating: R
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As our October journey through horror & b horror continues we felt it was time for a little 80's action. With so many choices out there why not go for a film that seemed to be just like the episode of Saved By the Bell where the crew camps out in the mall on night. You can't go wrong with a concept as b as that. Have to say Chopping Mall through us for quite a loop since we didn't read up on what it was actually about, hence the title. Thinking it would be the run of the mill 80's slasher proved to be wrong once a gang of killer robots appeared. Yeah awesome.
So our story obviously takes place in a mall where a bunch of teens who work there decide to stay past closing hours to throw a party and have a sexy time in some display beds. Once they're locked in they come to meet the new security, which happens to be a few robots that look like a cross breed between Paulie's in Rocky IV and Screech's only friend Max. They only issue is these robots seek and destroy anything moving and take aim at the gang of super 80's teens. They take a couple out with some hilarious laser graphics that must have been world renowned for the time. The film goes on with the kids trying to find a way to get out of the mall or stay alive until it opens up again in the morning.
For us Chopping Mall was worthy of a four star rating due to it's extreme 80's horror feel. Can't say it was scary in any sense at any point, but thought it was simply hilarious as the killer robots took aim at the over sexed kids. It's quite funny how the mall was the place to be back then, especially to base an entire film around it. We have to say despite the horrid acting and special effects the film did present a pretty original idea in a time saturated with slasher flicks. For some this film will be a complete waste unless you go into it with the right state of mind. As long as you know it's a bout killer robots, you should be fully ready to have a great laugh instead of a good scare. So grab yourself some treats, a little chuck, and your buddy and make a nice b night out of it.
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A shopping mall in L.A. has created three advanced security robots to guard the mall at night when it closes down. A group of eight teens (Barbara Crampton, Kelli Maroney, Russell Todd, Suzee Slater, Karrie Emerson, Nick Segal, John Terelesky and Tony O'Dell) decide to hide inside the mall to have a night of fun and sexual excitement, but unfortunately lightning has scrambled the robot's circuits as it turns them into homicidal killers that turns their night of fun into a nightmare of pure terror.
Exciting and enjoyable 80's Sci-fi horror action thriller that puts in a "Dawn of the Dead"-style shopping mall terror frenzy with a bit of "Terminator" thrown in. The acting is decent for a b-movie while the robot and splatter effects are quite excellent including that memorable exploding head sequence done on Crampton of "Re-Animator" fame, i also likw how it takes the slasher genre on Sci-fi level much like the first Terminator movie did and even offers an appearence by Dick Miller. The film is pure 80's horror/Sci-fi fun for anyone who likes the genres.
The DVD's transfer is alright but in fullscreen including the sound but there's some good extras like audio commentary, a featurette, photo gallery and trailer.
Also recommended: "Blade Runner", "The Terminator", "Terminator 2", "Westworld", "Deadly Friend", "Maximum Overdrive", "Dawn of the Dead (1978 and 2004)", "Runaway", "Final Destination Trilogy", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Videodrome", "Terminator 3", "Terminator Salvation", "Aliens", "Slaughter High", "Scream Trilogy", "Halloween (1978)", "Grindhouse", "Scanners", "The Fly (1986)", "Akira", "Short Circuit", "Night of the Comet", "Robocop", "Demon Seed", "I Robot", "My Bloody Valentine 1981 and 2009", and "The Blob (1988)".
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Chopping Mall is your basic retread of the slasher movie formula with a couple unique touches. Number one, it obviously takes place in a shopping mall, and number two, robots are doing the killing here. Although it certainly has its horror aspects, it's much more of a dark comedy movie at heart.
A mall decides to equip its premises with the latest in security technology, a team of security guard robots that lay the beat-down on burglars by firing laser beams. One night a group of teenage mall employees decide to throw a little party inside the furniture store after closing hours, unfortunately this coincides with an electrical storm that causes the robots' internal computers to go haywire. Now the group attempts to escape the mall with their lives as the murderous robots run rampant.
Chopping Mall has all the calling cards of a campy 80's horror movie. Over the top synth music, inter-changeable/disposable characters, laughable dialogue, the works. The one thing Chopping Mall surprisingly does lack is gore, which is often the focal point of these types of movies. The pacing (thankfully) is brisk, but a little more gore definietly wouldn't have hurt. At a trim 70 or so minutes in length, Chopping Mall is a mostly forgettable, but nonethless entertaining movie for those that are prone to enjoying this type of thing to begin with. If you love cheesy horror, and really really love the 1980's, this would be your movie.
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I thought this movie was awesome before I saw it I thought it would be boring but knowing me I love corny movies like that so one night I watched it when it came on HBO and I thought this movie was actually good.
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Chopping Mall (Jim Wynorski, 1986)
Pretty standard Corman-produced fare from the mid-eighties. It's the year 2000, and the world is still shopping-mall centered. (And oh, yeah, fashion and slang haven't changed since the mid-eighties, either. Fascinating!) A security company have just instituted the latest and greatest in security technology--security robots aimed at keeping the burglar population down and not needing to pay human guards. "It's foolproof", the security consultant says. "What could go wrong?" Famous last words. Eight mall employees have an after-hours party in the furniture store during a lightning storm that (of course) short-circuits the system. We first realize something's wrong when one of the robots kills a janitor. The kids, of course, are still blissfully unaware. But that will soon change!
It's your typical Corman-factory crap, but if you're looking for a slasher film with a couple of variations on the usual theme, Chopping Mall will fill the bill. It's not entirely awful, Barbara Crampton gets in some gratuitous nudity (I think exposing her breasts was part of her standard contract, something for which we should all be thankful), and Wynorski (who also co-wrote the script) and Corman bring back some characters from earlier Corman films for an amusing twist on the whole meta thing years before it got popular. All in all, a surprisingly unstupid Corman flick, especially considering Wynorski (whose greatest achievement to date has been the Bare Wench Project series) was at the helm. ** ½
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