Rish Outfield's reviews
Over Labor Day Weekend, tyranist and I rented a stack of videos, including a half-dozen Horror titles for the page. Unfortunately, they all started to run together in my memory, making it hard to remember what went where. About Chopping Mall, I remember a few things, all of which can be summed up in one word: SILLY.
A Roger Corman 'classic,' the plot was a bunch of horny youths are terrorized by clunky, malfunctioning security robots in a closed mall. And that's about it. We got to see a favourite of mine, Dick Miller, and super-cool Barbara Crampton, but she was mostly wasted here. At one point, she is 'wasted.' in the movie, but that's not what I meant. We got some fun 80's fashions, some pointless nudity, and a geeky main character who was so much the nerd, I began to relate to him. The "Killbots" were so lame, they made Robbie the Robot from Forbidden Planet look futuristic. And they were so noisy and slow, how could they sneak up or surprise anyone? Very silly.
It was unbelievable and eye-rollingly dumb, but pretty fun to watch. Truly awful 80's dialogue, but somewhat cute at the same time. Very predicable, but not unpleasantly so. It was a Roger Corman movie, not Shakespeare. After all, what did you expect with a title like Chopping Mall? I shouldn't pretend to have been so disappointed. It wasn't a good movie, but that's not always bad.
Best Scare: Well, there maybe weren't any scares, but there was a laugh-out-loud head exploding.
I'd Recommend It To: Fans of silly, stupid movies. And cool exploding heads.

The tyranist's thoughts
Originally title Killbots (one of the worst titles ever), the premise behind this movie is just so unutterably bad that I don't know where to begin. I am a fan of mall movies. Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite horror movies of all time. It is a masterpiece of horror. I even really like the Kevin Smith homage to the American pasttime, Mallrats. This one makes me want to go to my mall just to make sure that it hasn't been horribly corrupted somehow just because this movie is out there. I really didn't like it and let me tell you that there isn't any chopping involved.