Chopping Mall

Chopping Mall (1986) — watch online one of the guiltiest pleasures of 1980s horror, directed by Jim Wynorski and starring Kelli Maroney and Barbara Crampton. 77 minutes of pure B-movie mayhem.

Park Plaza Mall has just upgraded its night security: three state-of-the-art robots that identify staff by card and neutralise any threat. Then lightning hits the control room. The robots lose the plot entirely and start hunting down the eight teenagers who decided to throw an after-hours party in a furniture store. Lasers, carnage, and the kind of dialogue only 1986 could produce.

This is unapologetically trashy cinema — and that's exactly why it still has a following. Wynorski wasn't trying to make art; he was trying to fill 77 minutes with robot-on-teen violence and he delivers. Stream Chopping Mall (1986) online on iFILM.