Chopping Mall (1986)

Wonderful Movie

To me, this movie is perfection.

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.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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!

I can't believe I missed this one back in the day! 100% pure eighties R-rated fun! Not well-made or well-acted, but a blast nonetheless. I was surprised how well the Killbots came off - impressive considering the budget and quite menacing. Lots of laughs, groans and kills throughout - I recommend it if you're in the mood for a classic cross-up of Robocop and Dawn of the Dead!

I liked Chopping Mall I thought it was a fun little flick.It's what I like to call low budget gold. I like 80s horror films and this one was Okay. I actually found this film rather fast paced and it had a lot of Action in it. This is not a totally serious Film either I found it to be more of a horror comedy with some fun tongue in cheek moments.there was also some dark humour that I liked. The story is simple a group of teenagers decide to spend the night in the mall and throw a private party in there but they end up getting locked inside and they are unaware that the security Robots have malfunctioned and are now on a killing spree. People get killed off one by one by the Robots.when the teenagers find out they are trapped inside the store with killer robots they panic and try to run and hide from them. But the Robots are fast and they can shoot laser beams at people which burn right through the skin. There is one scene in the film where someone gets killed in a crazy way and we see a huge load of blood.it was a crazy scene. I thought the film was exciting all the way through because there were always things happening,and I really liked the idea of the film about the Robots malfunctioning and turning on everyone.I thought that was a good idea and kind of interesting,the setting of the film was also interesting.I like films that take place in stores or Malls where a group of people need to work together to fight and escape that's just what this film was like. There were some scenes with the Robots that were kind of ridiculous but the film was so Entertaining I didn't care. I also liked most of the characters which was surprising because usually horror films don't have any likable characters but this one did. I thought the acting was Okay from everyone and I liked the Lead girl Kelli Maroney I thought she was a strong character that had a lot of guts and she put up a good fight. There are some Fun moments when the teenagers fight the Robots with Guns and other objects they find in the store,there are also a lot of exciting chase scenes and a game of cat and mouse occurs. Also every time the Robots Kill someone they say (thank you have a nice day) which I found quite Funny actually. I'm sure most people will think this film is cheesy and it is but it's also a lot of fun to watch which is the main reason I like it.If you have not seen it definitely give it a Watch.

Think about it: you're considering watching a film called 'Chopping Mall.' Are you seriously expecting a great, original plot with fantastic character development and Oscar-winning special effects? I hope not. If you are then you really shouldn't watch this. This is truly terrible. And I loved it.It's about a mall (surprise, surprise) where the owners employ robots to guard it at night. These robots look like a cross between a Cylon and something out of 'Silent Running.' Anyway, just when they're commissioned, they only get struck by a freak lightning storm, turning them from honourable guardians of the night to psychotic killers (always the way, huh?).If this isn't bad enough then a bunch of kids hang back after work to indulge in pre-marital sex. You can probably guess they don't live to regret their kinky, decadent decision. You have every cliché here going - characters who you can tell exactly how and when they'll die, kids having sex and drinking then getting killed, cheesy dialogue and much, much more. For the first half an hour the film is pretty dull, not even worthy of a cult classic. However, at about the half hour mark, a woman gets her head blown to bits (classic!) and it all picks up from there. What you have is one daft chase after the next with robots who clearly need shooting lessons and kids who suddenly become Rambos when they raid a gun store.It's stupid. It's awful. It's a terrible film. And, if you know and appreciate that, you may love it as much as I do.