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Movie Reviews of Chopping Mall
Movie Review: Curse of the 1980s
Summary: 4 Stars
Chopping Mall brings back memories of seeing its ridiculously cheesy poster up in local video stores as a kid. The movie made appearances on the tube later, where I found it to be watchably bad, and kind of amusing.
This is basically an 80s formula movie, the kind of thing that goes straight to DVD now. It's a combination slasher-Dawn of the Dead-Alien flick. A shopping mall uses robots for night security, and of course, one night the things go haywire and go into Kill mode. Naturally, the robots are equipped with some serious weaponry, a bit too serious for dealing with a ripoff at Footlocker. Of course, a group of teenagers is trapped in the mall overnight, after hanging around after work to write their resumes for death (drinking, partying, sex, etc).
You know where it's going. It could have been great, but there's a low gore factor. In pales in comparison to other films set in shopping malls, namely Dawn of the Dead, a classic. There's plenty of tongue-in-cheek indication, such as a cameo by Dick Miller, and the (hopefully) intentionally cheesy sound effects of the robot laser beams (could robots this advanced have been cheaper than hiring your typical mall cop?)
No accident that it's on DVD, fans of the esteemed killer robot in mall genre are well familiar with this films amusing wares.
Movie Review: Finally on DVD...
Summary: 4 Stars
Though it is a bare-bones DVD release of Chopping Mall, it is still worth the $6.00 - $10.00. Chopping Mall is good 80s horror. Not great, not bad. You are introduced to some lame characters and a pretty bland plot which is very normal for a horror movie around this time. But just watching a group of sex-hungry, dorky teens running around a mall during 1986 trying not to get their heads blown off by a few big and bulky security robots is extremely entertaining. The kills/deaths don't offer up much more than what has already been done in horror at this point in time. But the movie doesn't focus too much of it's attention to the killing, but more on the teens trying to escape and find a way to fight back against the robots. Like I said, good 80s horror, you won't have to use your thinking cap. My only gripe is that there are no special features worth looking at. I would have at least liked to see something from Roger Corman maybe explaining the craze for horror movies in the late 70s - early 90s.
Special features aside, Chopping Mall is worth the price to own on DVD and is a very worthy entry into your horror collection.
Movie Review: "Let's send these f#@kers a Rambo-gram!"
Summary: 4 Stars
A group of 20 year-olds throw a party inside a mall after hours. The mall's new killbot security force doesn't take too kindly to these hormone overdosing no gooders running around half-dressed, so they start blasting everybody with lasers. That's right, lasers. There's never any actual "chopping". Maybe a little head exploding, but no chopping. Even though the movie itself doesn't live up to it's gruesome cover art CHOPPING MALL is still fun in a nostalgic 80's kind of way.
Would make a perfect double feature with the 1973 thriller TRAPPED about James Brolin locked in a department store overnight with six vicious Dobermans!
If the mall in CHOPPING MALL looks familiar it's because it's the Sherman Oaks Galleria which was also featured in TERMINATOR 2, COMMANDO, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and PHANTOM OF THE MALL.
D: Jim Wynorski (DEATHSTALKER II, CHEERLEADER MASSACRE)
Mike Brennan - John Terlesky (DEATHSTALKER II, THE ALLNIGHTER)
Suzie Lynn - Barbara Crampton (RE-ANIMATOR, CASTLE FREAK)
Movie Review: Have a nice day
Summary: 4 Stars
Without getting into hyperbole, this is the best film made in a zillion years!!!! Well maybe not, but certainly the best from Hollywood's long line of feature films about sexy teens trapped in malls while being chased about by security guard robots who have been hit by lightning and now roll after the sexy teens and try to kill them.
The teens are divided into two groups - the two Virgins, and then the Lusty Horny types. Guess who dies first! The robots are very cute and roll about the mall (They take an escalator at one point, thus answering the question of how they maneuver between floors) to chase their sexy prey. The robots shoot rays of light at their prey, just like the Care Bears.
The teens, trapped in the mall by these killer robots, must face their fears of robots and the perils of consumerism and fight for surival in the ultimate battle of man vs machine. As the pun-friendly DVD states, the viewer will "shop till you drop...dead!" Dramatic!
Movie Review: Killer Robots! Oh Yeah!...
Summary: 4 Stars
Yes, CHOPPING MALL is a dumb and deceiving title for this movie. KILLBOTS (the original title) is superior and more truthful. At any rate, I like this one a lot. The idea of killer robots chasing kids trapped in a mall after hours, is my kind of story! Plus, I get to see one of my favorite 80s horror babes, Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak) running around screaming and bursting into flames! CM has plenty of action, humor, nudity, and violence. The cameos of Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, and Dick Miller are cool. Also, there's "Peckinpah's Sporting Goods" (loaded w/ artillery of course), and "Roger's Little Shop Of Pets" in the mall! So, if you drool over killer robots and / or Barbara Crampton like I do, then this is the perfect DVD purchase! Would make a great film-fest w/ ROBOCOP, THE TERMINATOR, and WESTWORLD...