The Mangler

• Director: Tobe Hooper
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• Genre: Horror
• Movie Type: Creature Film
• Themes: Technology Run Amok, Demonic Possession
• Release Year: 1995
• Country: US
• Run Time: 105 minutes

Plot

A hellish piece of professional laundry equipment wreaks havoc in a tiny New England town in this horror film. It all begins in The Blue Ribbon Laundry, a place run by the ruthless, crippled old Bill Gartley. With no feelings at all for his employees, he demands absolute obedience and unrelenting hard work. One day an old speed iron goes crazy, sucks in and permanently presses a hapless worker. The rest of the crew is frightened and in shock, but this does not stop old Gartley from cruelly ordering them back to work. A police officer investigates the case and begins suspecting that the sinister owner is concealing something. When a boy suffocates in an abandoned refrigerator that had somehow come in contact with the speed iron, the cop calls in his friend the theoretical parapsychologist who deduces that there is a "transference of evil" going on. Meanwhile, Gartley is putting the moves on comely Lin Sue; he also is interested in messing with his own niece. Both girls have been harmed by the evil iron and have contributed some of their precious blood to it. It is the cop who discovers that in order for Gartley to remain successful, he must see that the demonic machine periodically receives such sacrificial donations. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Norman Coombes - Judge Bishop; Ashley Hayden - Annette Gillian; Todd Jensen - Roger Martin; Danny Keogh - Herb Diment; Ted Le Platt - Doctor Ramos; Ted Levine - John Hunton; Ron Smerczak - Officer Steele; Larry Taylor - Sheriff Hughes; Sean Taylor - Derrick Gates; Robert Englund - Bill Gartley; Daniel Matmor - Mark Jackson; Demetre Phillips - Stanner

Credit

Tobe Hooper - Director, David Heitner - Editor, Sudhir Pragjee - Executive Producer, Sanjeev Singh - Executive Producer, Helena Spring - Executive Producer, Harry Alan Towers - Executive Producer, Barrington Pheloung - Composer (Music Score), Tracy Crystal - Makeup, David Barkham - Production Designer, Amnon Salomon - Cinematographer, Anant Singh - Producer, Max Poolman - Special Effects, Tobe Hooper - Screenwriter, Harry Alan Towers - Screenwriter, Stephen David Brooks - Screenwriter

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