PHANTOM OF THE MALL: ERIC'S REVENGE
A man loses his home and suffers life-threatening burns from a fire deliberately set by commercial real estate developers vying for his property. One year later, a shopping mall opens on the land, and a series of murders begins.
About This Film
In an unlit store, a shadowy figure steals clothes and a crossbow. Melody and her friend Susie get jobs at the new mall, just before its scheduled grand opening. The shadowy Eric, his face half scarred, excitedly sees Melody, his former girlfriend, from hidden vantage points around the mall, and leaves flowers and gifts for her. He breaks open a mannequin head to fashion a half-mask. When a mall maintenance worker spots Eric in the ventilation ducts, Eric kills him by forcing his head into a running fan. Eric attacks anyone who threatens Melody; he kills a guard, who spies on women in the dressing room via mall security video, by crushing him into an electrical panel using a forklift. A masked mugger attacks Melody in the parking lot, but Eric shoots him with the crossbow. Later the mugger is revealed to be the mall pianist; Eric kills him on the toilet with a poisonous snake. The mall owner's son, Justin, harasses Melody's friend Susie; Eric kills him with a lasso pulled into the mall escalator. Reporter Peter Baldwin becomes interested in Melody, investigates the suspicious fire, and with Melody, Susie and pal Buzz, tries to learn if Eric is still alive. A year earlier, Eric Matthews' house was destroyed in a suspicious fire which apparently trapped and killed him, just after he saved his girlfriend Melody. Now, a year later, in the mall built over the site of his home, Eric plants a time-delay bomb beneath the mall, timed to coincide with the mall's grand opening.
Mall guard Christopher Volker attacks Melody and Peter at gunpoint as they talk, in a car, about the fire; he boasts that he is the arsonist. As they escape and Volker chases them with his car, Eric leaps onto the roof, distracting him and causing a crash. Later, Volker attacks Melody again, knocking her unconscious. Eric fights him, then kills him using the automatic box crusher, and carries Melody to his lair.
Buzz tricks a guard away from the video surveillance booth so he and Susie can search for Melody. Melody awakens, and talks with Eric. She is glad he is alive, but confesses she does not love him anymore; he angrily declares that he has planted the bomb, so she will die and be with him forever anyway.
As Peter searches for Melody in the tunnels, Eric deploys the snake to kill him, for being interested in Melody. When Peter retreats, then later finds them anyway, Eric tries to fight and kill him, but Eric is stunned by Melody's shout that she loves Peter. Peter takes the chance to knock Eric out, so the pair escape and are able to warn Buzz and Susie of the bomb. Eric revives and kills those involved in the arson, the coverup, and the construction of the mall: mall owner Harv Posner and the complicit Mayor Karen Wilton. Melody, Peter, Buzz, Susie, and all of the mall patrons escape, as Eric's subterranean bomb explodes, destroying the mall.
One year earlier, someone sets fire to a guy name Eric's house with him and his girlfriend Melanie inside, she survives but Eric does not. A year later a horribly burned man is stalking her from the shadows of a new mall that was built on the land where Eric's house once was.
Mall guard Christopher Volker attacks Melody and Peter at gunpoint as they talk, in a car, about the fire; he boasts that he is the arsonist. As they escape and Volker chases them with his car, Eric leaps onto the roof, distracting him and causing a crash. Later, Volker attacks Melody again, knocking her unconscious. Eric fights him, then kills him using the automatic box crusher, and carries Melody to his lair.
Buzz tricks a guard away from the video surveillance booth so he and Susie can search for Melody. Melody awakens, and talks with Eric. She is glad he is alive, but confesses she does not love him anymore; he angrily declares that he has planted the bomb, so she will die and be with him forever anyway.
As Peter searches for Melody in the tunnels, Eric deploys the snake to kill him, for being interested in Melody. When Peter retreats, then later finds them anyway, Eric tries to fight and kill him, but Eric is stunned by Melody's shout that she loves Peter. Peter takes the chance to knock Eric out, so the pair escape and are able to warn Buzz and Susie of the bomb. Eric revives and kills those involved in the arson, the coverup, and the construction of the mall: mall owner Harv Posner and the complicit Mayor Karen Wilton. Melody, Peter, Buzz, Susie, and all of the mall patrons escape, as Eric's subterranean bomb explodes, destroying the mall.
One year earlier, someone sets fire to a guy name Eric's house with him and his girlfriend Melanie inside, she survives but Eric does not. A year later a horribly burned man is stalking her from the shadows of a new mall that was built on the land where Eric's house once was.
Film Details
Director
Richard Friedman
Writers
Scott J. Schneid, Frederick Urich, Robert King
Keywords
Female Nudity
Independent Film
Murder
Nudity
Female Topless Nudity
Female Full Frontal Nudity
Violence
Blood
Cult Film
Revenge
Sex
Gore
Explosion
Slasher
Flashback
Serial Killer
Telephone Call
Kiss
Psychopath
Blood Splatter
Chase
Decapitation
Fire
Nightmare
Impalement
Car Chase
Falling From Height
Electronic Music Score
Mirror
Electrocution
Snake
Slasher Horror
Mask
Psychopathic Killer
Man
Disfigurement
Stabbed In The Stomach
Graveyard
Newspaper
Bomb
Crossbow
Burned To Death
Television
Pay Phone
Security Guard
Arson
Teen Slasher
Mayor
Shot In The Arm
Jukebox
Pianist
Fall From Height
Shot With An Arrow
Broken Neck
Station Wagon
Fan
Dressing Room
Pinball Machine
Ice Cream
Mooning
Skateboard
Remote Control
Brief Nudity
Arcade
Earring
Cassette Tape
Video Surveillance
Orchid
Shopping Mall
Phantom
Vcr
Subliminal Message
Mall
Arcade Game
Thrown Off Building
Half Face Burned
Ventilation Tunnel
Spoiled Son
Security Station
Music Store
Food Court
Female Mayor
Dumb Bell
Guess Jeans