Movies like Chopping Mall

“Chopping Mall (1986) is a 1980s American horror-sci-fi hybrid that compacts techno-anxiety into a suburban shopping-center survival scenario. It stages a technology-run-amok conflict — security robots go lethal after a control failure — using neon-lit interiors, tight ensemble-blocking, and a lighting grammar that favors high-contrast chiaroscuro and tactile, grainy texture. Chopping Mall condenses consumerist paranoia into compact setpieces, and in doing so it registers as a period-specific, camp-tinged study of how domestic architectures can become instruments of existential threat.”