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Oh, Chopping Mall.  How 8-year-old-me yearned to peek inside your VHS box of wonders and see what mayhem awaited.  Check out that sweet razor gauntlet!  And the back of the box says something about killer robots!  Sold!

This movie was originally titled Killbots, which is a more accurate, and frankly, more rad, title.  There isn’t really a serial killer per se, and in fact these robots don’t even have hands, or good production design.  What they do have are blades and lasers and electroshock devices suitable for murdering the group of crazy kids who might as well be spending the night in the Camp Crystal Lake Gift Emporium for all the difference it makes.  They wander into the woods, err, mall, hoping to spend the night, drink booze, get a little action, and accidentally awaken Jason, err, the robot security guards.  Ruh roh!  Somebody should have brought their razor gauntlets!

FUN FACT: Bad Movie All-Star John Terlesky, star of the trashy masterwork Deathstalker 2, has a smaller role in this film, and now directs episodes of Castle.  Way to go, John Terlesky!

CHOPPING MALL

BAD-BAD <——————–——X—–> FUN-BAD

Killer robots with hands or humanoid bodies: 0

Exploding heads: 1

Good reasons why these crazy kids are staying in a mall overnight: 0

Ineffective human security guards: 2

Totally effective killer robot security guards: 3

Taglines: 3 (”Buy or die…” “Half off is just the beginning…” “Where shopping costs you an arm and a leg!”

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