Directed by Richard Friedman in 1989, this movie tells the story of Melody Austin, a young girl that starts working in a newly opened shopping mall and suspects that her dead boyfriend is still alive and haunting the mall.
Melody is played by Kari Whitman, Eric by Derek Ryndall and the handsome Peter Baldwin is played by Rob Estes.
As you can probably guess from the poster, this is also a Phantomy movie. I seem to be only reviewing phantom related movies lately. But well, nothing can be done now.
Phantom of the Mall is not a bad movie, which doesn't mean it's a good one either. It starts off pretty well with some nasty murder in a shadowy place, and a not badly ingeneered presentation of the characters.
Melody - the Christine of this movie - is portraited as a nice girl, still in love with her dead boyfriend. She's a hard, levelheaded worker, in oposition to her friend Suzie - played by Kimber Sissons - , who's more the impulsive type. They are also friends with a guy called Buzz - played by Pauly Shore - who's the comic relieve of the movie, playing stupid pranks on Suzie to get her to notice him. The Raoulesque character is Peter Baldwin, a reporter who takes an interest in Melody. Their relationship is hindered by the fact that Melody still thinks of her dead boyfriend and starts to think he's alive.
Eric - who is alive and hiding in the mall - stalks Melody through half the movie, which proves to be of some use for the main female character. He's been disfigured in the fire that was supposed to kill him, so he wears a mask to conceal the deformity. Why the hell he didn't go to her and let her believe he was dead is kind of a mystery.
The characters are not bad for a 80s teenage movie. They're kind of consistent, up until the last 20 or so minutes, where Melody and Eric decide to go ooc and against all that they had said during the resto of the movie and just be total and incoherent jerks.
The music is 80s pop music, with a not bad main theme.
The make up is cool too, very well done. I don't get why it only covers half his face as he was exposed whole to the fire, but it's way better than other disfigurements I've seen.
All in all, the movie is acceptable. I don't really recommend it to you, but if you stumble across this movie one satrudray night and there's nothing better on, you can keep it on and just disconect the brain. There are a lot of beautiful fire and blood scenes.
Melody is played by Kari Whitman, Eric by Derek Ryndall and the handsome Peter Baldwin is played by Rob Estes.
As you can probably guess from the poster, this is also a Phantomy movie. I seem to be only reviewing phantom related movies lately. But well, nothing can be done now.
Phantom of the Mall is not a bad movie, which doesn't mean it's a good one either. It starts off pretty well with some nasty murder in a shadowy place, and a not badly ingeneered presentation of the characters.
Melody - the Christine of this movie - is portraited as a nice girl, still in love with her dead boyfriend. She's a hard, levelheaded worker, in oposition to her friend Suzie - played by Kimber Sissons - , who's more the impulsive type. They are also friends with a guy called Buzz - played by Pauly Shore - who's the comic relieve of the movie, playing stupid pranks on Suzie to get her to notice him. The Raoulesque character is Peter Baldwin, a reporter who takes an interest in Melody. Their relationship is hindered by the fact that Melody still thinks of her dead boyfriend and starts to think he's alive.
Eric - who is alive and hiding in the mall - stalks Melody through half the movie, which proves to be of some use for the main female character. He's been disfigured in the fire that was supposed to kill him, so he wears a mask to conceal the deformity. Why the hell he didn't go to her and let her believe he was dead is kind of a mystery.
The characters are not bad for a 80s teenage movie. They're kind of consistent, up until the last 20 or so minutes, where Melody and Eric decide to go ooc and against all that they had said during the resto of the movie and just be total and incoherent jerks.
The music is 80s pop music, with a not bad main theme.
The make up is cool too, very well done. I don't get why it only covers half his face as he was exposed whole to the fire, but it's way better than other disfigurements I've seen.
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| PHANTOM OF THE MALL SPANISH TRAILER |
The trailer is in spanish this time, as I couldn't find it in english. But the dub is so bad and the voice in off is just hilariously serious compared to the images. Plus the title is completely wrong.
All in all, the movie is acceptable. I don't really recommend it to you, but if you stumble across this movie one satrudray night and there's nothing better on, you can keep it on and just disconect the brain. There are a lot of beautiful fire and blood scenes.
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