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The Mangler [1995]
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A good story Mangled
Review date: 2007-08-15 Rating: 2 out of 10
Based on a Stephen King short Story but showing non of the menace of the written work. I was thoroughly disappointed with this film and couldnt believe tobe Hooper churned out such a dreary film - It wasnt what I hoped for and certainly did indeed Mangle a great short story.
The sinister guy in the film was definately creepy and the only good thing about the whole film - the rest seemed to be sloppy and amateur. sorry to those who loved it but I thought it was awful and have resigned it to the back shelf away from all the better made films of Stephen Kings work - its next to Maximum Overdrive another Turkey.
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Reviews
There is no liberation from machines: they are evil
Review date: 2005-03-01 Rating: 8 out of 10
Based on a short story by Stephen King, this film expresses the ever present and ever surviving nature of evil, hence of fear. Here the film deals with the big monsters that the big machines of the industrial age contain and represent. Machines are evil spirits that can only work if they suck on humanity, their blood, their pith and marrow, and even their spirituality. The machine is the bloody god of the modern age that requires regular human sacrifices to go on working properly. This is frightening because it is coming from a popular saying that the machine eats the worker up. It is also visually shown in the fact that the master, the owner of the machine, the one who will make a big profit from it by exploiting the work of the workers has to sacrifice a body part of himself or herself to the machine for the machine to accept to work for him or her. There is no morality in all that, in this world. There may be a desire for the world to be ethical, but this desire is nothing but a pipe dream that has absolutely no chance to be realized. Once we have committed ourselves to the god of machines, we cannot go back and even destroy these machines. The devil that is living in them will get us before we ever even try, what's more succeed in destroying it. There is no effective exorcism even with holy water and wafers and incantations in Latin. These evil spirits living in machines are beyond this because they are the pure creation of men : Man created the machine and thus provided these evil spirits that are roaming the world with a haven where they can prosper and from which they can dominate and enslave the world, even if they need some « boss » to enact and realize this domination, to the boss's profit of course, but this profit is only a delegation of power from the devil to the boss and a temporary probation for the boss who will have eventually to go back to the machine as simple fodder. This is the most disquieting vision of our free enterprise society a sane mind can imagine.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
The Mangler prepare to be MANGLED!!!!!!!!
Review date: 2005-01-14 Rating: 8 out of 10
I found this film to be well made and kept my partner and my self looking over our shoulders!!, it may not apeal to every one's taste but certainly should be considered buying for your DVD Horror collection.
A very underrated movie
Review date: 2003-09-19 Rating: 8 out of 10
Let me first say no one got the
credit they desirved for making this.
Tobe Hooper did a very good job directing
Robert Englund was very very sinsiter as he always is
the reason this wasnt a big hit was for the simple fact
it didnt have body count such a shame if your a horror
fan you should already have this in your collection if you
dont get it
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Daniel Matmor
Robert Englund
Ted Levine
Vanessa Pike
Jeremy Crutchley
Creators:
Robert Englund (Primary Contributor)
Ted Levine (Primary Contributor)
Tobe Hooper (Writer)
Anant Singh (Producer)
Harry Alan Towers (Producer)
Harry Alan Towers (Writer)
Helena Spring (Producer)
Stephen David Brooks (Writer)
Stephen King (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Pathe Distribution
Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
EAN: 5060002832240
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2003-06-30
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 101 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1995-03-03
Language: English (Original Language)