A Park
Plaza Mall mall invents a new device to
prevent break in's and stealings from
criminals and juvenile delinquents which
are high tech robots that are unstoppable
and are state of the art security devices
as night watchmen.
Suddenly a bolt of lightning from a storm
outside short circuits the main computer
control and these robots turn into
killbots as they have killed the
technicians and some of the janitors
working there too.
A group of teens employed at the Mall
decide to party out there after hours
thinking they are having a good time but
they see two of their friends get killed
by these robots and try to escape but
they are accidentally locked in and
unarmed.
They break into a gun store thinking they
can stop them but it doesn't work and one
by one they are being hunted down and
slayed.
A very well done flick
although it looks like it might fail it
really picks up big time.
The film was enjoyable and it really
takes you back to the cult classic retro
horror film land of the 80's although it
may seem at first it's a sci-fi flick it
does turn out as a horror film too.
A film worth watching if you like low
budget teen horror's.
The acting is in
good shape but sometimes it's very 80's
cheese like. However, I like that in a
retro film.
Kelli Maroney is quite outstanding
in her role as the lead character and
seems to deliver alot of enthusiasm in
her part as she reminds me of Linda
Blair and briefly earned her scream
queen status like Blair too.
Tony
O'Dell played a perect dweeby and
preppie type of character in the film as
he seems to know his stuff by portraying
it and it's suitable for the story in
this one.
Russell Todd stood out the most in
this film as he portrayed a great tough
like employee who seems to be courageous
at battling the killbots.
Barbara Crampton worked perfectly
with her whiney and scared attitude in
the film and portrays her part
believeable.
Nick Segall really showed off his
energy with his aggression and anger in
his part which looked perfect.
John Terlesky was the hearthrob
character in the film as a macho and sexy
type of teenage employee and does it well
with what he did even if he was
only seen partway through this film.
Suzee Slater also represented
herself nicely as she had a perfect look
for a teenage horror film and her acting
is fairly okay too.
However the cameo apperances by Paul
Bartell and Mary Woronov
looked a little trashy and stale as
sarcastic people at the meeting when they
spot the newest invention of the
killbots. They didn't seem to fit at all.
Dick Miller on the other hand was a
classic with his role as an irritable
janitor.
Barbara Craptom
pulls down her lingerae and shows off her
breasts
Suzee Slater pulls off the covers of
a bed in the mall and shows off her full
round breasts
A guy's throat is slit
A woman's head is blown off by a killbot
Most of Jim
Wynorski's work in films were bloody
terrible with low production values
offering lots of skin but he seems to
pull his weight well and I found this
film his best direction ever.
At times it is off but alot of the times
he knew what he was doing with this one.
He shows a cheesy beginning in the film
with small actor Lenny Juliano
as a burglar breaking into a mall and
then showing a nasty grin while trying to
shoot a killbot which looks cheesily
impressive.
However the direction between Paul Bartell
and Mary Woronov acting
sarcastic at a conference meeting looked
too tongue in cheek and uninspired.
We see a nice opening with people acting
comedic at the mall showing harmless
accidents like drinks being spilled and
stuff like that almost giving it that
similar feeling to the opening of Fast
Times at Ridgemont High.
There's a good bullying sequence in the
mall with two employees played by Tony
O'Dell as a dweeb being slightly
picked on by John Terlesky as he
does well at acting sarcastic.
The cast hanging out and partying looks
very bland but however we seem to have a
nice dialogue sequence between Kelly
Maroney and O'Dell when
they both watch an old black and white
horror film on the TV together since
their conversations looked fairly
natural.
We spot a great shot on Dick Miller
as he is mopping up and a killbot is
right behind him about to come in for the
kill which looked perfectly directed.
The lustful dialogues between Suzee
Slater and Terlesky was
perfect as they play off terrifically
well and are great making out together
looking like too real horny teenagers.
The camera shots on the killbots rolling
around in the mall and killing people
looked wonderful and the cast reacts well
while being chased by them.
We have a real powerful camera shot scene
with all 3 actresses performed by Maroney,
Karrie Emerson and Barbara
Crampton trying to escape in heating
vent as you wonder if they will survive. Crampton
looked perfect by tripping out on this.
Russell Todd perfomed very well at
getting tough when he loads his rifle and
goes in for the hunt on the killbots
along with O'Dell and Nick
Segall which makes it look truly
adventurous.
We spot a great shot of the camera
rolling in on Crampton when the
killbot is pinning her down and she
reacts terrifically with her screaming.
There's a great reaction on Todd
when he is electrocuted and nice shot
with electricity flowing through him.
We see a great shot on a killbot
cornering Maroney and a nice
shot on her screaming with frightened
expressions.
She does well at trying to find a way of
destroying these things when she goes on
an adventure too.
The music was composed by
Chuck Cirino who worked with Wynorski
in many other projects too.
He performed some nice cheesy 80's
keyboard music for the opening of this
film giving it a good low budget feel to
a teen horror flick and seemed to pull
through well with the story too although
some of it lacked a bit.
[repeated
line after the robots kill someone]
Killbots: Thank you... have a nice
day.
Mike:
You always get your way don't you?
Leslie: When I'm happy,
everybody's happy.
Mike: That's for sure... hand me
my badge, would ya?
Leslie: What's the magic word?
Mike: Hand me my badge... please
[she hands him the badge]
Mike: Thank you.
Leslie: Oh, Mike...
Mike: What?
Leslie: [flashes him] Hurry
back.
Mike: Count on it.
Greg:
Computer, huh? Let's go trash the fucker.
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