![]() It wasn’t until Jim Wynorski’s Killbots (1986, aka Chopping Mall)-it’s hard for me to call this movie Chopping Mall because when I first heard about it in various horror mags at the time it was going under the Killbots title and I even have a memory of seeing it on cable as Killbots-came around that I finally got to see a scene from the movie. And since you can’t see the guy’s head I always had the impression it had snipped it right off, but there was one more striking feature of that photo that made me want to see this movie, the goddamn crab monster itself! But a crab monster with human-like eyes?! Those mutant-human eyes brings that whole design together too. What made it unique among most of the monster photos I saw was that it seemingly showed a monster feeding, or beginning to feed, on a hapless human it had caught. To a kid who grew up on science fiction movies of yore that photo was like taking a hit of meth, or crack, or whatever the in-drug is these days, and getting instantly addicted! And that’s all I ever knew of this movie too was from that photo. I don’t remember any other photo being run. ![]() In just about every monster movie book I ever had Attack Of The Crab Monsters was always mentioned and it was always mentioned in conjunction with that photo above. ![]() I’ve mentioned this many times in my reviews of these black and white genre flicks that all my knowledge of monster movies and classic science fiction films was through monster movie books I either found at the school library or bought during one of those school programs where the teacher handed out a catalog of books we could buy. This is a movie I desperately wanted to see when I was a kid, but there wasn’t any channel anywhere in my area that ran it, but if there was, I was never aware of it, or we never had access to it.
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