History Film / ChoppingMall

* RuleOfThree: Of the four couples, three of them die before the end. Oddly, every time one member of a couple dies, invariably, their partner is the next to go, until it's down to the final couple.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Rick deliberately crashes a cart into one of the robots, electrocuting himself]].

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:All the couples who have sex die, while the one that doesn't survives]].

A 1986 SlasherMovie involving malfunctioning killer robots chasing people through a mall.

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* FinalGirl: Partly subverted; Alison has to fight the last killbot alone, but it turns out her boyfriend was only stunned.

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A 1986 SlasherMovie involving malfunctioning killer robots chasing people through a mall..

* TooDumbToLive: Most of the characters seem not to be familiar with the concept of "cover," standing out in the open firing their guns at the robots—or even just standing out in the open completely unarmed—which leaves them incredibly vulnerable and results in at least one death.

* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: The young people have three KillerRobots after them and are trapped in the mall which won't open until morning.

Thanks to [[LightningCanDoAnything a lightning strike on the mall's transformer]], the computer running the security robots begins to malfunction, deciding all humans in the mall are intruders and in need of [[MurderousMalfunctioningMachine removal with extreme prejudice]]. This leads to a running ChaseFight throughout the shopping center as the humans try to evade detection and destroy the robots.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: When the guys break into Peckinpah's, Greg selects a shotgun as his main weapon.

* DeathByCameo: Creator/DickMiller shows up as Walter Paisley, a character he has played in multiple films. He’s the third one to die to the robots.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Ferdy selects a [[HandCannon large revolver]] as his weapon, which the main characters later use to trigger their elevator bomb.

* HollywoodNerd: Ferdy.

* YourHeadASplode: Leslie, the first girl to die in the movie, goes out this way courtesy of a killer robot's [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]].

* PunBasedTitle: The film was originally titled "Killbots" (and was syndicated to television as such), but it had trouble finding an audience with this title. It was given it's current title for its re-release.

* NothingHereButUsStatues: Late in the film, the main characters attempt to lay a trap for the bots by hiding amongst a group of mannequins in front of a mirror covered by a sheet; Rick and Ferdy then uncover the mirror to cause one bot to shoot itself and malfunction.

* AssInALionSkin: For the scene where one of the killbots uses an escalator, the production team had a crew member wear a cast of the ‘bot because the actual ones were too wide for the escalator.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:All the couples who have sex die, while the one that doesn’t survives]].

* EnergyWeapon: The Protectors' main weapon. They fire them from their visors. The effects are wildly inconsistent; [[spoiler:Leslie]] is shot in the back twice, ShotInTheAss twice, keeps on running, and it [[YourHeadAsplode takes a shot to the head to kill her]]. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:Suzie]] is shot in the leg and barely able to crawl, while [[spoiler:Linda]] is [[InstantDeathBullet shot once in the torso and killed]].

* LeeroyJenkins: [[spoiler:Greg gets a fatal case of this while running through the mall blindly, leaving his friends far behind.]]

** Peckinpah’s the gun store is a reference to director Creator/SamPeckinpah.

* SocietyMarchesOn: Paul snarks to Mary that one of the robots on display has "an unpleasantly ethnic quality." The audience is expected to find this funny.

Thanks to a lightning strike on the mall's transformer, the computer running the security robots begins to malfunction, deciding all humans in the mall are intruders and in need of [[MurderousMalfunctioningMachine removal with extreme prejudice]]. This leads to a running ChaseFight throughout the shopping center as the humans try to evade detection and destroy the robots.

A classic Creator/RogerCorman BMovie from TheEighties, which has gained a cult following due to its hokey plot, tongue-in-cheek dialogue and gruesome robot kill scenes. Also known as ''Killbots'', the film's original working title and what it was syndicated to television as.