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Chopping Mall -- Interviews with director Jim Wynorski and writer Steve Mitchell

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4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this holiday season you can head to your local Chopping Mall to pick up the new Blu-Ray release of this 1986 horror cult classic. A brand new transfer and lots of bonus features accompany this new release. Going even further, on this podcast Arnie Carvalho talks to Chopping Mall director Jim Wynorski and writer Steve Mitchell, dispelling internet rumors and finding out about the making of this film. After you hear this interview, get our review of Chopping Mall! You can get this review now and help support Now Playing! It is available on our Podbean page. Every dollar you donate goes to make this show the best it can be. Thank you for your support and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

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0:00.0

Hello now playing listeners and thanks for joining me for a very special episode of

0:16.3

now playing where we're going to go behind the scenes on the 1986 sci-fi horror film

0:23.7

Chopping Mall.

0:24.7

Now if you've donated to support our show for the fall 2016 donation, you've probably

0:29.9

already heard our review of this movie.

0:32.8

But coming out of it, we had a number of questions and as our horror films of 1986 series

0:38.9

is winding up with last Friday's review of From Beyond, I wanted to go ahead and talk

0:44.0

to some of the makers of Chopping Mall and find out about that movie and some of the

0:50.4

decisions that made into it and really get to the bottom of a lot of internet rumors

0:55.3

about extended cuts of the film, original titles, cast members and more.

1:01.2

So for this bonus episode, I'm going to be talking with the writer director of Chopping

1:06.9

Mall, Jim Wynorski and the co-writer of Chopping Mall, Steve Mitchell.

1:12.3

So we'll start with Jim and if you're not familiar with the name, I guarantee you've

1:17.0

seen some of his movies.

1:18.8

He is directed over 100 films per IMDB, produced 59 of them, written 54 films.

1:27.0

Some of the films he's directed in addition to Chopping Mall are Tracy Lorde's film,

1:32.0

Not of this Earth in 1988, Death Stalker 2 in 1987, 976 Evil 2 in 1991, Gooleys 4 in

1:41.9

1994, Numerous Parity Series, including the Bear Wrench

1:46.8

Project, Alabama Jones and the Busty Crusade, House on Hooter Hill and the Devil

1:52.5

Where's Nada, plus another movie we've reviewed on now playing quite a while back, The

1:57.6

Return of Swamp Thing, the follow up to West Craven's original.

2:01.6

I was really excited to talk with this director about Chopping Mall and yeah, I had a couple

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