I would like to see this as an anthology series set in one mall. It could start with a serial killer, lead into killer security robots, and then finish with supernatural due to the deaths.
_Damn,_ an anthology series set in the same shopping mall, maybe with a decade in between each story (‘80’s, ‘90’s, ‘00’s and now), with the last one being ‘urbex’ explorers breaking into the now vacant and boarded-up mall and getting stuck inside with . . . feral dogs? A crazed janitor? Piranhas because broken abandoned aquarium and a flood outside? Whatever, great idea man! 👍 👍 👍
@@cabe3231 Ok, so Chopping Mall is made in 2023. How would it differ? Literally in every way unless it's an homage to the 80's.The fashion. The pacing of the film. Kids today would have no patience for this film and quite frankly I don't think I would either if I didn't have so much nostalgia for the time. And let's not forget, though this was(presumably)not shooting for an Oscar, they didn't think they were making an absurd film. This movie fits squarely in the horror genre of the day.
@holden sagan Guy, by saying you're nostalgic, the wistful yearning for a return to the past, i.e- homesickness, you're basically proving my point that movies like this should be made today.
@@cabe3231 When I say I have nostalgia(thank you for defining it), I just mean it's baked in to the movies of the time and that without it I would have very little appreciation for those movies. I'm not at home wishing for more(there's plenty)and doubt it could be achieved anyway. The current zeitgeist would never allow those movie to be made today. Too triggering. But, look, I'm perfectly willing to be wrong and hope I am. Any movies without a woke agenda that don't take themselves too seriously, is definitely a step in the right direction.
The closest your going to get to that is Wynorski's upcoming Full Moon feature/spiritual sequel MURDERBOT. Although it doesn't have the robots of the original but instead Rocky DeMarco as a Terminator-style robot, the trailer seems to indicate a few callbacks.
I love this movie. A movie review channel I watch were reviewing the latest Jurassic world, and were lamenting that it should have been robot dinosaurs and it had me thinking, if someone ever remade this movie, it should be a mall with a theme park like the mall of America (I’m from Minnesota so that’s where I based it off of) and maybe in a five nights at Freddy’s malfunction type of way, the robot dinosaurs rampage and kill the security guards and maybe the sexy teens who were at said mall, rename that movie “chomping mall”
Barbara Crampton was and is so freaking hot. Beyond that, Dick Miller is in this flick. He's one of my favorite character actors. This movie gives me serious nostalgia bumps. Had it on VHS in the early nineties. There was a particular part of the tape that was worn out... ...there wasn't any internet. 😂 So this 13 year old had to resort to the rewind and pause buttons.
The characters in Chopping Mall were NOT teenagers. Everyone makes this mistake when talking about this movie. But if you actually WATCH the movie, all the characters are ADULTS.
Correction: The special effects all around were practical effects, including the lasers, which were basically hand animated. Even in those days, CG was bloody expensive, and it was cheaper to hand animate light effects.
@@Fo-Flats - ah, just the standard box art - a metallic / robotic hand grips a red bag packed to the brim with severed body parts including a prominent eyeball on the top of the heap and a distressed / screaming face visible through a tear in the bag’s base. I guess this was the default international release box art, not just specific to NZ 😆
I've always liked this movie, but then again, I like most anything with robots. I never knew it was actually released under the name Killbots though, I thought that name was abandoned while the movie was still in production. I wonder if anyone has tried to build replicas of the Protectors? They're small enough, and practical enough that skilled robot builders could probably duplicate them easily. It's funny that the entire film only cost $800,000, because if it had been made by a major studio, they could have spent double that, just on building the robots. BTW, there's a low budget 1995 movie called Evolver, about a teenager who wins a Laser Tag type robot in a contest and it ends up killing people. The robot design in that film reminds me of the Protectors, and at times, the movie even has a similar feel. The two films don't have anyone in common though.
Quentin Tarantino doing it as an 80s style film It would have: Meryl Streep Samuel L Jackson Chris Evans Scarlett Johanson Elizabeth Olsen Kurt Russell
I had the luck of seeing Sherman Oaks Galleria back around the time this movie was made, and it was one of the big reasons I wanted to see this movie. It was quite a trip to wander around this mall. Partly because of filming location, and also because it’s been one of the few three-story malls I’ve ever seen. Even as a child I was a mall enthusiast and SOG is a reason I look up dead malls these days. Count me as disappointed too with the change. I think it was the earthquake in ‘94 that damaged the building too badly. I’d read about that and was so sad to see a place I’d loved as a kid was no longer the same.
If this movie was made today, it would have a different name. Over the years malls have been suffering a slow death. It would more than like be called Chopping Online Orders. 😆
I saw this on HBO in the late 1980s and then it was often shown on weekend TV matinees on cable as Killbots but I really don't remember if it used the cut footage.
I remember seeing this back in high school. I was a real film buff (especially B movies and cult films) so I had to explain all the references and in-jokes to everybody. 🤣 My favorite was "Rogers's Little Shop Of Pets".🤣
I love this movie. I first heard about it reading John McCarty's Splatter Movie guide & immediately had to track it down but had to settle for the shitty transfer DVD.
9:38 That's not Angus Scrimm. He's in the audience in that scene, behind the lady in the pink sweater on the right side(can't be seen in the footage shown here).
It seems really strange that Friday the 13th part 6 and Top gun were in the movies at the same time. If I were taking a quiz I would have definitely guessed that it would have been Friday the 13th part 2 or 3. It's weird how we remember things.
Hakeem who!!!!... dude that is NOT how you pronounce his last name... come on man, he was one of the best center ever and he's in the top 75 best NBA players list!!!
No idea if a movie like this even could work in today's world. Do young people even have malls as a hangout option anymore? I mean, I know malls still exist. There are two of them within driving distance and my kid works at one of them. But do malls mean to today's kids what malls meant to us Gen-Xers? I do love this movie and was lucky enough to have seen it when it was new. If they did decide to do a remake, one would almost assume it would have to be set in the 80's and done as a period piece. Hopefully they'd offer Kelly Maroni a part in the film. Maybe replacing one of the Eating Roule cameos with one of her other costars? Assuming any of them are still acting these days. That might be fun. As for the rest of the cast... well I don't know enough young actors to make an informed casting choice. I'm old and out of touch. But hopefully it would be some up and coming talents rather than fully established "names" as it were.
Really enjoyed the film, why they changed the title to Robot assassins made little sense. Chopping Mall was a much better title. It is one of those films I can put on at any time and have a laugh. I just want to know what happened to the rest of the workers in that place, surely there was not just one cleaner working the whole mall ? That would be dedication.
Idk what's left to explore in a remake/ sequel. The mall no longer exists and shooting elsewhere would look blatantly different. I think a video game could work. Killer Clowns is getting one so why not Chopping Mall?
One of my favs I have a shirt and coffee mug and I want the LD but it's really rare even the VHS is worth a lot of money. I'd love to see a sequel NOT a remake. It won't happen though. It sucks the SOG got remodeled. All these depressing remodeling of famous fast food restaurants and malls is just depressing like living today is. Long live the 80s! Also phantom of the mall Eric's revenge was shot there another underrated 80s slasher/horror film check it out if you don't know it. Has a great cast including Pauly Shore Morgan Fairchild, Ken Foree and the most interesting man in the world dos equis guy Johnathan Goldsmith.
#JoBloOrignals I love this movie !!!!!!!!!! love robots i grew up on this movie deadly friend short circuit series evolver robot joxs screamers robocop series ....1 and 2 real steel
