This film about a laundry folding machine possessed by the devil, is one which is highly disregarded by the critics. After viewing it is understandable why, this film is horrible and painful to watch.Although starring horror legend Robert Englund(Freddy Kruger), his performance falls short for a leading role character and out shone by highly underrated actor Ted Levine. Levine somewhat saves the film from being a total disaster. Levine, who a lot of people would recognise as Buffalo Bill in Silence Of The Lambs, portrays a small town cop on the trace of the killer of a mill worker, no knowing of the horrible secret the mill holds inside its walls. When Detective John Hunton (Levine) is called to the scenes of a gruesome accident involving a laundry folding machine, he suspects there may be more to the case then first thought, so he decides to investigate. His suspicions where confirmed when he discovers that the folding machine has acquired a taste for human flesh, and the mill owner, Bill Gartley (Englund), is sacrificing the virgin daughters of local business men for the man eating, devil possessed machine. This film takes a horrible turn, for the viewers, towards the end when the machine begins to chase the detective down a stair well. Although the film may appear to have one or two positives, the negatives strongly outweigh these and ultimately make it one of the worst films we've ever seen. (David Crane and Nick Shepley)
Review of The Mangler
