Bad Movie Thursday

Viewing Date: 10/16/2025

Starring: Murderbots, Kelli Maroney

Plot: A group of young shopping mall employees stay behind for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock-down before they can get out, the robot security system malfunctions, and goes on a killing spree. (IMDB)

Rules

• Quintessential 80’s stuff
• Smoking (Advanced rule! Everyone smokes in the 80’s)
• T & A
• Product Placement
• Robot opens their robot hatch
• “Thank you, have a nice day.”
• Glass shattering.

Quotes

• “They remind me of your mother. It’s the laser eyes.”
• “Let’s go send those fuckers a Rambo-gram.”
• “I guess I’m just not used to being chased around the mall in the middle of the night by killer robots.”

Viewer Quotes

• “This movie’s pretty good.” – “Yeah, not bad.”
• “Why don’t they just run up the stairs?”
• “Why is this robot so inaccurate with its laser beam shots?”
• “That’s why he brought the propane cannister.”
• “With it being called Chopping Mall, shouldn’t there be more blades?”

What We Learned

• Robot’s have different colored lasers.
• Malls in the 80’s had entire rooms piled high with metal junk, like the trash compactor in Star Wars.

Final Take

This was a surprisingly good Bad Movie Thursday choice. I’d never even heard of it before, and it was definitely on the shorter side, but it held its own throughout. For those of us Gen X children of the 80’s, seeing all the mall shots brought a serious nostalgia wave. On top of that there was classic 80’s era T&A, ridiculous practical horror effects, and stupid robots. This was definitely worth a watch.