Chopping Mall
A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, the robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. One by one the three bots try to rid the mall of the “intruders.” The only weapons the kids can use are the supplies in other stores, or if they can make it till morning when the mall opens back up.
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- Cast：
- Karrie Emerson , Julie Corman , Kelli Maroney , Toni Naples , Tony O'Dell , Barbara Crampton , Suzee Slater
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Just so...so bad
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
This film is not even remotely fun. It's cheesy and not in a loveable way. It is trash and it's not worth watching for any reason.
Chopping Mall is one of those terrific, ludicrous, total schlock classics, and through it's commitment to not giving a damn it's among the most fiercely 80s pieces of joyful action-horror of Roger Corman's producing career at Concorde studios. The real credit goes to co-writer/director Jim Wynorski, who probably came up with the title, not to mention the poster and the tagline, before the script, and that's more than fine. In 76 minutes, Wynorski and the cast (Barbara Crampton!) and crew take on the perfect attitude for what they have to do: assemble two to three robots (I assume from looking at the shots and how theyre edited there's supposed to be four but they could only make two), get them struck by lightning - so it's kind of pre-Robocop Ed209 and a slice of Short Circuit, but really its own over the top B movie feast without much satire on its mind - and have some near 30 year old's in perms and mullets in disguise as uh, teenagers or at best 20 year old's running all night in a locked down mall. And if it isn't funny - intentionally or not - it has moments of genuinely strong direction... And some that are not. It came, it saw, it kicks all kinds of robo-marauding ass. It's Wynorski's finest more than an hour.
It's a B movie that knows what it is and what it has to do and still tries to have a little fun with the formula. There are some really funny lines tossed around like "I guess I just didn't expect to be running away from killer robots tonight" (paraphrasing) and the whole opening where the scientist is showing the robots and says "nothing could possibly go wrong!" in such a deliberately ridiculous way, that it rises above the schlock to be more entertaining than most of these slasher type movies. A couple of good kills, some over the top action, lots of in jokes (the gun store called Peckilnpah's) and a robot that looks eerily similar to Johnny five just with a different head make this better than most!
This is utter tat – an almost complete waste of a movie. The robot security guards that attack the kids look like a cross between the robot out of Short Circuit (1986) and a rubbish-bin. Their voice is quite funny. I might have fallen asleep watching this movie but it's hard to tell, not much happened so I didn't miss much. Also most of the time I wanted to grab my phone to see what was on social media, or just see anything interesting. You'd have to be on a lot of drugs to enjoy this.
