Yes, it is DIRE...but it is certainly a b-movie and very nearly cult...you just need to tell your friends.
Plot: Teenagers finish work at their Mall jobs and arrange to have a little party in the furniture store (it's the 80's, so it's all about the beds). However, the owners of the Mall stores have only that very morning decided to trial a new security system...Mall bots (robot security guards). Well, the parties in full swing and everyone is having a grand time, including the up tight kid, who's been set up with a nice girl. So, everyone's kissing and "stuff" (that'll be my euphemism for tits and shaggin') when a lightning storm hits the robot control box (safely located on the roof) and short circuits (that's right, I slipped another eighties robot movie reference in there) the now 'Killbots' and guess what happens next?...oh wait...did I give it away?
The robots appear so slow that it beggars belief that the director and the designer of said 'bots' thought they'd even come close to scary or dangerous. The poster is silly too, no where in the entire movie is there a robotic/zombie/demon armed creature holding a shopping bag...shame.
Budget: $800,000
Gross: probably a darn sight less.
B-movie, yes. Cult movie?...maybe one day.
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