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* FauxAffablyEvil: Whenever a killbot, well, kills someone, it looks around and says, "Thank you, have a nice day!"
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Whenever While they're not technically evil, whenever a killbot, well, kills someone, it looks around and says, "Thank you, have wishes its victim a nice day!"day.
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: The movie frequently shows up on compilations of "Exploding Head" scenes on Website/{{Youtube}}.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: A customer oogles a group of girls in bikinis on an escalator, falls over crushing the boxes he was carrying
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* DistractedByTheSexy: A customer oogles ogles a group of girls in bikinis on an escalator, and falls over over, crushing the boxes he was carryingcarrying.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Whenever a killbot, well, kills someone, it looks around and says, "Thank you, have a nice day!"
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* KlaatuBaradaNikto: spoken by Mike when he showed one of the killbots his security badge.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The robots do not have humanlike, scaly looking arms (instead they have stubby, robotic claws), and no-one's body parts get stuffed into a shopping bag.
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* TheMall: The setting for the entire movie. There is not ''one'' scene filmed outside.
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* TheMall: The setting for the entire movie. There is not ''one'' scene filmed outside.Even the few exterior shots (so we can see the lightning strikes) are all of the mall.
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* KillerRobot: The Protector 101 series security robot.
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* AttackOfTheKillerWhateverAIIsACrapshoot: A lightning-induced power spike is all that it took for the security robots to go into full-on "KillAllHumans" mode.
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Homicidal security 'bots.
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Homicidal security 'bots.
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* TheStinger: [[spoiler: A robot [[BreakingTheFourthWall tells the audience]], "thank you, have a nice day".]]
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* IKnowMortalKombat: when asked if he knows how to shoot a gun Ferdy says he's watched ''DirtyHarry'' twenty-four times.
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* IKnowMortalKombat: when asked if he knows how to shoot a gun Ferdy says he's watched ''DirtyHarry'' ''Film/DirtyHarry'' twenty-four times.
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* OddlyOvertrainedSecurity: [[http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/ Mall Ninja]] subtype, robot version.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Whoever decided to employ robots with weaponry capable of [[YourHeadAsplode blowing up someone's head]] to guard a shopping mall apparently believed this.
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* LightningCanDoAnything: Apparently, the mall being struck by lighting is all it takes to make the robots murderous.
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* LightningCanDoAnything: Apparently, the mall being struck by lighting lightning is all it takes to make the robots murderous.
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* ManOnFireManOnFire: Suzie dies when a killbot blows up the gas can she's carrying with incendiary results.
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* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Snakes and spiders, literally in a pet store. The serve no real purpose, beyond forcing one girl to put up with terrifying things crawling on her without alerting the killer robots.
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* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Snakes and spiders, literally in a pet store. The They serve no real purpose, beyond forcing one girl to put up with terrifying things crawling on her without alerting the killer robots.
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* YourHeadAsplode: Girl gets chased by robot. Girl gets decapitated by FrickinLaserBeams.
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* YourHeadAsplode: Girl gets chased by robot. Girl gets decapitated by 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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A classic 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 RogerCorman 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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* TheCameo: PaulBartel and Mary Woronov appear briefly at the beginning of the film as their characters from ''Film/EatingRaoul''.
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* TheCameo: PaulBartel Creator/PaulBartel and Mary Woronov appear briefly at the beginning of the film as their characters from ''Film/EatingRaoul''.
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: The mo vie frequently shows up on compilations of "Exploding Head" scenes on Website/{{Youtube}}.
* TheCameo: Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov make a brief appearence at the beginning of the film as their characters from ''EatingRaoul''.
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: The mo vie movie frequently shows up on compilations of "Exploding Head" scenes on Website/{{Youtube}}.
* TheCameo:Paul Bartel PaulBartel and Mary Woronov make a brief appearence appear briefly at the beginning of the film as their characters from ''EatingRaoul''.''Film/EatingRaoul''.
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Eight teenagers get locked inside a mall and think they're in for a night of debauchery. The mall ''also'' has a shiny new robot security system. The creator of the system says "[[TemptingFate nothing could go wrong]]". [[ItGotWorse Things go less than stellar]].
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Eight teenagers get locked inside a mall and think they're in for a night of debauchery. The mall ''also'' has a shiny new robot security system. The creator of the system says "[[TemptingFate nothing could go wrong]]". [[ItGotWorse [[GoneHorriblyWrong Things go less than stellar]].
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* SawStarWars27Times: When asked if he knows how to handle a gun, Ferdy assures that he does because he's seen ''Film/DirtyHarry'' 24 times.
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* YourHeadAsplode: Girl gets chased by robot. Girl gets decapitated by ''lasers''.
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* YourHeadAsplode: Girl gets chased by robot. Girl gets decapitated by ''lasers''.FrickinLaserBeams.
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* LightningCanDoAnything: Apparently, the mall being struck by lighting is all it takes to make the robots murderous.
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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?
* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Snakes and spiders, literally in a pet store. The serve no real purpose, beyond forcing one girl to put up with terrifying things crawling on her without alerting the killer robots.
* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Snakes and spiders, literally in a pet store. The serve no real purpose, beyond forcing one girl to put up with terrifying things crawling on her without alerting the killer robots.
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: The movie frequently shows up on compilations of "Exploding Head" scenes on {{YouTube}}.
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: The movie frequently shows up on compilations of "Exploding Head" scenes on {{YouTube}}.Website/{{Youtube}}.
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* TheMall: The setting for the entire movie. Obviously.
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* TheMall: The setting for the entire movie. Obviously.There is not ''one'' scene filmed outside.
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* 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, and substantially did better at the box office.
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* 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, and substantially did better at the box office.re-release.
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* 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.re-release, and substantially did better at the box office.
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* VindicatedByHistory: At least commercially, not so much critically. When first released in 1986, the movie was a box office bomb. Producer Roger Corman and the filmmakers assumed the original title "Killbots" was to blame, with audiences mistaking it for a ''{{Transformers}}''-type animated robot movie. They rereleased it under its current title, where it did substantially better business.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The film ends with the three security robots destroyed, but the malfunctioning computer that controlled them (and supposedly has control over other parts of the mall as well) is still operating. Although it can't send out any more robots to do its bidding, it can still cause trouble for any humans in the area]].
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A 1980s SlasherMovie.
Eight teenagers get locked inside a mall and think they're in for a night of debauchery. The mall ''also'' has a shiny new robot security system. The creator of the system says "[[TemptingFate nothing could go wrong]]". [[ItGotWorse Things go less than stellar]].
Eight teenagers get locked inside a mall and think they're in for a night of debauchery. The mall ''also'' has a shiny new robot security system. The creator of the system says "[[TemptingFate nothing could go wrong]]". [[ItGotWorse Things go less than stellar]].
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A 1980s SlasherMovie.
SlasherMovie involving malfunctioning killer robots chasing people through a mall..
Eight teenagers get locked inside a mall and think they're in for a night of debauchery. The mall ''also'' has a shiny new robot security system. The creator of the system says "[[TemptingFate nothing could go wrong]]". [[ItGotWorse Things go less thanstellar]]. stellar]].
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.
A classic 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.
Eight teenagers get locked inside a mall and think they're in for a night of debauchery. The mall ''also'' has a shiny new robot security system. The creator of the system says "[[TemptingFate nothing could go wrong]]". [[ItGotWorse Things go less than
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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* TheCameo: Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov make a brief appearence at the beginning of the film as their characters from ''EatingRaoul''.
** Dick Miller shows up as Walter Paisley, a character he has played in multiple films.
** Dick Miller shows up as Walter Paisley, a character he has played in multiple films.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: A customer oogles a group of girls in bikinis on an escelator, falls over crushing the boxes he was carrying
* FinalGirl: Partly subverted; Alison has to fight the last killbot alone, but it turns out her boyfriend was only stunned.
* FinalGirl: Partly subverted; Alison has to fight the last killbot alone, but it turns out her boyfriend was only stunned.
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* CrushKillDestroy: Apparently the security bots' default setting following a computer malfunction.
* DistractedByTheSexy: A customer oogles a group of girls in bikinis on anescelator, escalator, falls over crushing the boxes he was carrying
* ElevatorFailure: How Protector 2 meets its end, thanks to the humans rigging it to blow.
* FinalGirl: Partly subverted; Alison has to fight the last killbot alone, but it turns out her boyfriend was onlystunned. stunned.
* FrickinLaserBeams: The Protectors' main weapon. They fire them from their visors.
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* LeeroyJenkins: [[spoiler:Greg gets a fatal case of this while running through the mall blindly, leaving his friends far behind.]]
* LockAndLoadMontage: The guys stocking up with weapons and ammo at the sporting goods store.
* 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...
* LeeroyJenkins: [[spoiler:Greg gets a fatal case of this while running through the mall blindly, leaving his friends far behind.]]
* LockAndLoadMontage: The guys stocking up with weapons and ammo at the sporting goods store.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: On more than one occasion, the killbots manage to sneak up behind humans, even in situations where their presence should have been noticed way in advance.
* 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.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler:Linda, the tough girl mechanic is killed by a random laser blast while Protector 3 is malfunctioning, while Alison, the more chaste and feminine one survives the night.]]
* VindicatedByHistory: At least commercially, not so much critically. When first released in 1986, the movie was a box office bomb. Producer Roger Corman and the filmmakers assumed the original title "Killbots" was to blame, with audiences mistaking it for a ''{{Transformers}}''-type animated robot movie. They rereleased it under its current title, where it did substantially better business.
* OffscreenTeleportation: On more than one occasion, the killbots manage to sneak up behind humans, even in situations where their presence should have been noticed way in advance.
* 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.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler:Linda, the tough girl mechanic is killed by a random laser blast while Protector 3 is malfunctioning, while Alison, the more chaste and feminine one survives the night.]]
* VindicatedByHistory: At least commercially, not so much critically. When first released in 1986, the movie was a box office bomb. Producer Roger Corman and the filmmakers assumed the original title "Killbots" was to blame, with audiences mistaking it for a ''{{Transformers}}''-type animated robot movie. They rereleased it under its current title, where it did substantially better business.
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