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A couple of teens decide to stay in the mall where they
work over the night to have a good time. They've got it
all planned out and there's nothing that can go wrong...
well, almost nothing. What was supposed to keep them safe,
manage to pull off the exact opposite thing when the
mall security robots go mad and start a killing spree
together. It seems as if nothing will stop them and it's
up to the decreasing amount of teens to escape before
it's too late.
This cheesy forgotten slasher from the 80's has gotten such
a good reputation for itself among horror fans that I decided
to give it a go. After finished watching it I have one
question that remains unanswered; why is this movie so
attractive. This was really just another 80's slasher but
with killer robots and a whole lot of plot holes. To name a
few plot holes, first of all, the robots are quite big and
still they manage to go on an escalator pretty well, another
thing is that they shoot constantly and it looks as if the
teens are hit like a 100 times but they never even get a
wound. As if that wasn't enough, it only has a running time
of 70 minutes.
This was the second movie Jim Wynorski directed in his life
as a director. He has managed to get quite a few of his films
on the slasherpool bottom charts through the years, including
films like Project V.I.P.E.R. and Cheerleader Massacre.
Thankfully, this movie wasn't quite as bad as those since
this had a more entertaining cheese factor surrounding it
and his directing actually looked better then than it does
today. Pretty descent acting from this quite unknown cast
though, surprisingly enough. Sure it wasn't great but it was
as good as it could possibly get for this movie, except from
the fat guy who says "waitress, more butter", they should
have just cut that line out.
So up to this point I have done nothing but badtalk this
movie but there are positive things about it aswell. Chopping
Mall is awfully 80's and I think it's always nice to be able
to see that the time has influenced a movie so much. The
robots look pretty good and realistic aswell for the time
being. The special effects are nothing to get excited about
but it sure is a hell of a lot of fun watching these small
robots shooting laser beams at people. I really had gotten
the wrong idea of how this movie was going to be but I didn't
end up hating it, it just wasn't as good as I had hoped that
it would be.
Now to the big let down. I was told that this was supposed
to be one hell of a gory horrormovie, which it certainly
wasn't. There was one good kill where a person gets shot
by a laser beam in the head so that the head explodes but
other than that, the goriest thing we get is a slit throat.
As suspected this was just packed with music that we would
rather just forget. This score contained nothing but cheesy
80's synthesizer music but it did help building the atmosphere
so it wasn't completely worthless.
How come the worst horrormovies always have the coolest
titles? Chopping Mall really wasn't very good despite the
reputation that it has gotten. I do believe that only
true 80's fans will be able to enjoy this movie as it
just isn't very entertaining today. Watching a couple
of teens getting shot by killer robots sure sounds like
my kind of movie but the robots weren't very scary and
neither was the movie.
Review By: AnthroFred
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