How strange Stephen King sells his name and reputation for those Z series films that obviously only aim at making money, and even not too much, but with a small budget to start with it is not so bad after all. That Mangler should never have been reborn. The original was at least the morbid fantasizing of what Stephen King suffered in the summer when he was a high school teacher: he worked in a laundry factory and he worked with such pressing machines that could turn criminal, with no security and the bosses who did not want to spend one cent on security, as if blue collar workers were supposed to be kept secure. After all, accidents were the privilege of all these salary-hungry people. But in this film we are left with a Joe the plumber turned vampire and the Mangler is his revived invention, machine or whatever that provides him with his pint of blood everyday. It is not even entertaining. Too gross to be, too disgusting to even be horrible or terrible, certainly not even terrific, though after a little while you may have some sudden desire to vomit. Have some good blood cocktail on the house.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

"The Mangler Reborn" is a stunningly dull and disappointing effort.**SPOILERS**After becoming obsessed with a strange machine, Hadley Watson, (Weston Blakesley) starts to show signs of mental instability. When Jamie, (Aimee Brooks) moves into the area, he doesn't take too kindly to the intrusion and abducts her, taking her back to his place. When Rick, (Reggie Bannister) and his son Mike, (Scott Speiser) who have been watching the house for awhile, decide to break in and rob the place while he's away. Not finding anything of value, they decide to leave only to discover that he is a homicidal maniac that is abducting people in order to feed them to his machine, soon find themselves among his captives inside the house. Gathering help from his other victims still inside, they decide to launch a final strike to get away from him before becoming victims for his strange machine.The Good News: There wasn't a whole lot to this one that really worked at all. The fact that there's some good, creepy things in the house during the break-in sequence is perhaps it's best feature. The tricks with the windows turning into bricks or other traps is a little eerie the first time around, as it's incredibly unsettling and just plain unusual than the norm. There's also the layabout of the house, with the blood-soaked finger-prints all over the walls give an incredibly effective atmosphere that is wonderful. These scenes are the creepiest and give off a disturbing quality. The lone sequence showing the working of the machine is rather good and brutal, being up close and personal with the action and making it feel much more brutal than it should be. It's long, involved and actually a little unnerving, which is a little unfortunate that so little times it is used. The only other thing that's worthwhile is the final brawl around the house, as the two each get the upper-hand with some innovative offense or defense and it's the only action in the film. These here are the only things worthwhile in the film.The Bad News: This was a pretty disappointing and dull film. There's much to say about the fact that this one is just plain dull. Nothing happens at all, since it's all taking place in the house outside of the opening sequence where the first victim is kidnapped, but after that, it's all done in the house, leaving this one to rely on the fact that the killer is holding them hostage. This produces very little excitement at all since the killer is so lame. The constant bugged-out eyes help him look menacing, but the fact is that he is about sixty years old and he has a big belly, which means that all his victims have to run away very slowly and also trip a few times so that he can catch up to them. That's just plain crazy and really takes away from the fear that should've been used for the killer, but it also weakens the film by being just so dull and boring. There's seemingly endless scenes of the killer wandering into a room, whacking them with a rubber mallet and then taking them away, which constitutes the entire amount of action in the film. This is just long, dull and hardly gets any kind of momentum or action involved, making it a real pain to sit through, and with the killer being completely non-threatening and the kills being done in the lamest way possible except for the main one mentioned earlier, it's got nothing much else about it.The Final Verdict: There's just not a whole lot to this one either way, and it ends up being just a dull, listless effort all around. This one is really only for those who have enjoyed the others in the series and need to finish it off, while those who find the flaws too much or weren't fans of the series should heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity

First let me say that, yes, this movie is quite awful and will go down as one of the worst movies I've seen. Thankfully though, this is one of those awful horror movies that's funnier than many comedies I've seen. The first big laugh came during the opening credits, where the camera pans across newspaper clippings that give some back story, saying things like "Machine considered 'cursed'". However, most of the clippings are just things the director printed from Word and cut out (ie, they're clearly not from the newspaper). The second big laugh came when the main girl is dumped by her boyfriend and goes to cry while taking a shower. During the shower, the camera moves directly from her face to her chest and stays there for a good 10 seconds. There is not any attempt to make her nudity seem subtle. There's a series of laughs from the bad guy's tool to subdue his victims, that being a small rubber mallet. See, I grew up around tools like these, and I can tell you that what he used is not threatening in the least. However, every time he hits someone with it (approximately 51 times) the camera focuses on the mallet and plays foreboding music (the best part is at the end when he's waiting at another victim's door). No character does anything to avoid the mallet of doom (or Frank, as we named it), specifically the bad guy's daughter, who says "Daddy?" and stands, waiting to be hit in the head. Much more can be said about this "film," but you really should see for yourself. Ed Wood Reborn

I honestly can't believe that this bears the same title as the first Mangler movie. It has very little to do with the original story and is more a tale of someone going obsessive and totally losing it than it has anything to do with possession. The contraption he builds based on an apparently antique machine is a strange gathering of knives and cleavers attached to rickety arms, that looks more like a kid's attempt at building a "machine" than anything else. Kudos for the main "possessed" guy's acting though, he is totally devoid of emotion, but otherwise, the acting is horrible, the plot (what plot?) is horrible, full of holes like for instance some big burly guy not being able to find his way out of a large wooden house... Come on! It's by far the worst execution of a gore horror movie I have ever seen put to video.Avoid this one folks, you'll want the 1.5 hours of your life back after having watched it.