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* TheCameo: Creator/PaulBartel and Mary Woronov appear briefly at the beginning of the film as their characters from ''Film/EatingRaoul''.
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.* 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]].
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* FrickinLaserBeams: 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]].
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The robots' FrickinLaserBeams were explained in detail at the beginning of the film and justified ([[{{Handwave}} to a point]]) to be so powerful as allowing the robots to be used in rescue operations. Now, the ''[[StuffBlowingUp plastic explosives]]'' that the robots use at one point to blow open a door, that doesn't gets any foreshadowing.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The robots' FrickinLaserBeams [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] were explained in detail at the beginning of the film and justified ([[{{Handwave}} to a point]]) to be so powerful as allowing the robots to be used in rescue operations. Now, the ''[[StuffBlowingUp plastic explosives]]'' that the robots use at one point to blow open a door, that doesn't gets any foreshadowing.
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* YourHeadASplode: Leslie, the first girl to die in the movie, goes out this way courtesy of a killer robot's FrickinLaserBeams.
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* YourHeadASplode: Leslie, the first girl to die in the movie, goes out this way courtesy of a killer robot's FrickinLaserBeams.[[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]].
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* PullThePlug: The two final teens, in desperation, go look for the computer room so they can destroy it and stop the Protectors, but the final Protector attacks them and they destroy it... and that's when the film ends, leaving in the air whether they went to finish off the job or not.
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** The again, those couples are long-standing. Ferdy and Alison have just met.
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* MurderousMalfunctioningMachine: Apparently the security bots' default setting following a computer malfunction.
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** The agin, those couples are long-standing. Ferdy and Alison have just met.
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** The agin, again, those couples are long-standing. Ferdy and Alison have just met.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The film's main events take place over the course of a little more than 12 hours, starting in the late afternoon and ending at dawn the next day.
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* MurderousMalfunctioningMachine: Apparently the security bots' default setting following a computer malfunction.
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: When the guys break into Peckinpah's, Greg selects a shotgun as his main weapon.
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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.
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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," ''Killbots'', the film's original working title and what it was syndicated to television as.
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A 1980s SlasherMovie involving malfunctioning killer robots chasing people through a mall..
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A 1980s 1986 SlasherMovie involving malfunctioning killer robots chasing people through a mall..
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** The agin, those couples are long-standing. Ferdy and Alison have just met.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The robots' FrickinLaserBeams were explained in detail at the beginning of the film and justified ([[{{Handwave}} to a point]]) to be so powerful as allowing the robots to be used in rescue operations. Now, the ''[[StuffBlowingUp plastic explosives]]'' that the robots use at one point to blow open a door, that doesn't gets any foreshadowing.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The robots suddenly develop FrickinLaserBeams with no real explanation why beforehand.
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* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: The killbots quickly and efficiently dispose of most of the cast. But when Protector 1 has Alison at its mercy in a storage room...
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* MonsterThreatExpiration: The killbots quickly and efficiently dispose of most of the cast. But when Protector 1 has Alison at its mercy in a storage room...
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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 [[CrushKillDestroy 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.
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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 [[CrushKillDestroy [[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.
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* CrushKillDestroy: Apparently the security bots' default setting following a computer malfunction.
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* ActorAllusion: Dick Miller plays Walter Paisley, named after his character from ''Film/ABucketOfBlood''.
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* 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.
* BlackComedy: For the end credits where they show each character along with their actor, the image for Leslie is of [[spoiler:her head being blown up]].
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* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:All the couples who have sex die, while the teens who don’t survive]].
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* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:All the couples who have sex die, while the teens who don’t survive]].one that doesn’t survives]].
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* TheStinger: [[spoiler: A robot [[BreakingTheFourthWall tells the audience]], "thank you, have a nice day".]]
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* TheStinger: [[spoiler: A [[spoiler:A robot [[BreakingTheFourthWall tells the audience]], "thank you, have a nice day".]]
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** Creator/DickMiller's cameo character is named Walter Paisley, after his character in his first film, ''Film/ABucketOfBlood''. This name made a reoccurring appearance throughout his various roles.
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** Creator/DickMiller's cameo character is named Walter Paisley, after his character in his first film, ''Film/ABucketOfBlood''. This name made a reoccurring appearance throughout his various roles.roles (a grand total of seven times).
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* ShoutOut: Peckinpah’s the gun store is a reference to director Creator/SamPeckinpah.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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** Creator/DickMiller's cameo character is named Walter Paisley, after his character in his first film, ''Film/ABucketOfBlood''. This name made a reoccurring appearance throughout his various roles.
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** Creator/DickMiller's cameo character is named Walter Paisley, after his character in his first film, ''Film/ABucketOfBlood''. This name made a reoccurring appearance throughout his various roles.
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* AirVentPassageway: The girls crawl through the ducts to escape the robots.
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* AirVentPassageway: The girls crawl through the ducts to escape the robots. However, the AI controlling them and the mall cranks up the heat, causing Suzie to have a FreakOut and the girls abandon the ducts.
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** Several beauty pageant contestants wearing bikinis are seen on an escalator in the opening credits.
** In the waitresses’ locker room, a topless waitress wearing a ModestyTowel is seen behind Suzie and Alison.
** Several beauty pageant contestants wearing bikinis are seen on an escalator in the opening credits.
** In the waitresses’ locker room, a topless waitress wearing a ModestyTowel is seen behind Suzie and Alison.
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* FrickinLaserBeams: 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 shot once in the torso and killed.
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* FrickinLaserBeams: 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.killed]].
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* MightyGlacier: The Protector 101 robots. They move 8 mph at top speed, but deal a lot of damage and are ridiculously hard to stop, withstanding (at various points) bullets, small amounts of explosives and even their own lasers before going down.
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* MightyGlacier: The Protector 101 robots. They move 8 mph at top speed, but deal a lot of damage with their lasers and plastic explosives and are ridiculously hard to stop, withstanding (at various points) bullets, small amounts of explosives and even their own lasers before going down.
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* HighVoltageDeath: Walter Paisley is electrocuted with a taser into a puddle of water at his feet.
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* MightyGlacier: The Protector 101 robots. They move 8 mph at top speed, but deal a lot of damage and are ridiculously hard to stop, withstanding (at various points) bullets, small amounts of explosives and even their own lasers before going down.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The three killbots shoot differently colored bolts: Protector 1 has pink, Protector 2 has blue and Protector 3 has green.
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* RailingKill: [[spoiler:Greg is thrown off the third-floor by Protector 3]].
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* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:All the couples who have sex die, while the teens who don’t survive]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Rick deliberately crashes a cart into one of the robots, electrocuting himself]].
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* FrickinLaserBeams: 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 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 shot once in the torso and killed.
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* ShoutOut: Peckinpah’s the gun store is a reference to director Creator/SamPeckinpah.
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* AirVentPassageway: The girls crawl through the ducts to escape the robots.
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* FrickinLaserBeams: 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 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 shot once in the torso and killed.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: Four guys, four girls. [[spoiler:And three each are killed throughout the movie]].
* GenderEqualEnsemble: Four guys, four girls. [[spoiler:And three each are killed throughout the movie]].
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* DistractedByTheSexy: A customer ogles a group of girls in bikinis on an escalator, and falls over, crushing the boxes he was carrying.
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** Likewise, one of the technicians becomes the first casualty while ogling up a pin-up.
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* KlaatuBaradaNikto: spoken by Mike when he showed one of the killbots his security badge.
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* KlaatuBaradaNikto: spoken Spoken by Mike when he showed one of the killbots his security badge.
* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler:Mike]] is killed by the robots.
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaid: The robots are supposed to be mall security guards. Who the hell decided they needed lasers powerful enough to explode peoples' heads?
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaid: The robots are supposed to be mall security guards. Who the hell decided they needed lasers powerful enough to explode peoples' heads?heads? And plastic explosives, for that matter?
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* BigBad: Protector One is the leader of the killer security robots.
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* ThePlace
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* 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.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The very first on-screen kill of the film was some guy in a demo film that showcased the lethality (and thus utility) of the Protectors as security measures. It's not made apparent until the words "THE END" appear on-screen, about five minutes into the movie.
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* MadeOfExplodium: Sure, a hardware store holds a lot of volatile chemicals, but still the explosion that demolishes the final Protector was caused ''mostly'' by spilled paint and created an absurd fireball, to boot.
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* PullThePlug: The two final teens, in desperation, go look for the computer room so they can destroy it and stop the Protectors, but the final Protector attacks them and they destroy it... and that's when the film ends, leaving in the air whether they went to finish off the job or not.
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* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Alison stores the road flare that she uses to destroy the final robot between her breasts after nabbing it from a shelf.
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* MaleGaze: In the beginning of the scene where Leslie gets her head blown up, the opening shot gives us a slow close look at her butt, complete with green bunny panties.
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* GenreSavvy: Having seen his fair share of horror movies, Ferdy counts as this. He definitely knows the stupidity of the LetsSplitUpGang trope when it comes to them, as shown when Alison suggests she and him split up to look for the computer mainframe:
-->'''Alison:''' Okay, you try over there, and I'll try over here.\\
'''Ferdy:''' No, I don't want to split up!\\
'''Alison:''' What can happen?\\
'''Ferdy:''' You want a list?
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'''Ferdy:''' No, I don't want to split up!\\
'''Alison:''' What can happen?\\
'''Ferdy:''' You want a list?
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