Chopping Mall (Killbots)

Chopping Mall (Killbots) (1986)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 36% of users liked it
    (5,845 ratings)

This high-tech spin on the slasher genre pits a group of sex-obsessed teens spending the night in a shopping mall against the mall's marauding robotic security guards -- whose programming turns homicidal after a bolt of lightning scrambles their control circuits. Director Jim Wynorski cut his… More

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R, 1 hr. 17 min.
Directed By
Jim Wynorski
Genres
Action & Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Mar 21, 1986 Wide
On DVD
Aug 17, 2004
Concorde Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

    Disreputably fun... just about the best low-budget movie about killer robots destroying a shopping mall that can ever be produced.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...the film features horny teens being chased around a shopping mall by clunky robots that shoot lasers. What more do you need to know?

  • Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum

    Robot killers in a mall. Like 'Dawn of the Dead' done by dorks.

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    Goofball horror flick is salvaged by a quick pace and diverting sense of humor.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lee ?


    Silly, cheesy fun that's sure to raise a smile among 80s b-movie horror fans. The plot has three new security robots go on a manhunt around a shopping mall after malfunctioning during a lightning storm. Very 80s stuff with the typical cliched cannon fodderof horny teens.… More

  • Cory T


    After a 'Robocop'-esque infomercial satirizing the "neutralization" of a criminal, 'Chopping Mall' is a wacky B-movie that exudes a jovially fun attitude that removes the drive-in idiocy of the high-concept. Like the Universal classic… More

  • Tim S


    A pretty silly 80's horror movie...or any decade, for that matter. It does have several things going for it though. The yummy Barbara Crampton for one, Dick Miller for another and a really horrible 80's cheese synthesizer score. Other than the head-exploding scene, there… More

  • AJ V


    This is another great machines gone crazy movie, this time taking place at a mall after hours, which is always scary. I loved this techno terror film.

  • Jeff "


    Chopping Mall is a fun, cheesy ride and is an underrated gem of a horror film. The films story is simple, Security robots at a mall malfunction after the main computer gets struck by lightning, and the robots go on a rampage on a group of teens partying after hours inside the mall.… More

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