Chopping Mall is 78 minutes of mean-spirited, unrestrained mayhem featuring robots running amok in a San Fernando Valley shopping mall.
The victims are young shopping mall employees having a sex party in a furniture store long after the last shopper has gone home. The perpetrators are 2-foot-tall robots programmed as mall security guards and equipped with lasers, stun guns and clawed limbs – except their circuitry goes haywire in an electrical storm.
All they do is zap their human prey and say “Thank you. Have a nice day”.
Elevators, stairs, mannequins, air-conditioning ducts, steel doors and other things found in any mall are used by the terrified teens to evade the ravaging robots.
Death for humans and machines occurs via electrocution, laser beam, fire, bullets, arrows, choking and crushing.
Director Jim Wynorski also co-wrote the screenplay with Steve Mitchell and provides the voices of the killer robots.
Crudely made and just short of totally worthless, it’s a one-note samba devoted to chasing, hiding, screaming and murder.
Alison Parks
Kelli Maroney Ferdy Meisel
Tony O’Dell Rick Stanton
Russell Todd Linda Stanton
Karrie Emerson Suzie Lynn
Barbara Crampton Greg Williams
Nick Segal Mike Brennan
John Terlesky Leslie Todd
Suzee Slater Paul Bland
Paul Bartel Mary Bland
Mary Woronov Walter Paisley
Dick Miller Cook
Mel Welles Miss Vanders
Angela Aames Dr Stan Simon
Paul Coufos Mr Todd
Arthur Roberts Dr Carrington
Angus Scrimm (as Lawrence Guy) Technician Nessler
Gerrit Graham Technician Marty
Morgan Douglas Killbots (voice)
Jim Wynorski
Director
Jim Wynorski
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All they do is zap their human prey and say “Thank you. Have a nice day”.
