Product Details

• Actors: Aimee Brooks, Reggie Bannister, Weston Blakesley, Scott Speiser, Juliana Dever
• Directors: Erik Gardner, Matt Cunningham
• Writers: Erik Gardner, Matt Cunningham
• Producers: Barry Barnholtz, Dan Golden, Mark Burman, Melinda Manos, Melvin Butters
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: November 29, 2005
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BBOFAE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,700 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Mangler Reborn" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

When a repairman builds a machine from parts of an old haunted laundry press he becomes obsessed and possessed by it. As life slowly drains away from him he serves only one master and it's the machine. The repair man will do anything to feed the machine and keep it alive. His murderous rampage grows out of control and he slowly descends into hell to feed his blood lust.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 012236184195 Manufacturer No: 18419

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Bad Bad, December 8, 2005

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J. Blankenship "FeffelHead" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mangler Reborn (DVD)

Ok Usually I find something good to say even about the worst movies. Unfortunately, I can't find anything good about this one. The only thing that even made me give this movie 1 star was the ( heroine's )acting...and she ended up dying anyway !

Aside from her, the acting was just atrocious, the villian laughably unbelieveable , and the effects we've loved from the first 2 Manglers are nowhere to be found. This is probably the worst movie I have seen this year and it should no way be associated with the original Mangler movie which kicked ass.

Whether the studio needed something in a hurry to put out or not, the budget of this movie was just awful. Don't waste the money to even rent this. I'd rent Strawberry Shortcake first before I ever watched this awful piece of crap again

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Mangler Re-Bored, February 1, 2006

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Ghoulie Guru - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Mangler Reborn (DVD)

WARNING: possible spoilers ahead...

Reggie Bannister from the Phantasm movies makes his move away from Don Coscarelli in this pitiful would-be sequel to the Mangler. The original, which was based partially on a Stephen King short story, was about a laundry machine that ate people. Robert Englund played the psychotic owner of the laundry who fed people to the machine. It was basically Little Shop of Horrors with a laundry machine instead of a plant.

This one jettisoned the supernatural laundry machine and went for a more straightforward serial killer tale. The story is about a repairman who buys the old Mangler on eBay and starts restoring it in his basement. Once the machine nears completion, it possesses him and turns him into its minion. The rest of the movie is about this repairman going around and getting meat for his machine. There's a lot of screaming done by women as he hits them repeatedly with a hammer. I have to wonder about the two guys that wrote and directed this movie, and where this misogynistic streak is coming from.

It seems like the writers/directors were going for that unrelenting Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Haute Tension, Saw, Hostel kind of vibe that seems to be all the rage these days. But the Mangler Reborn wound up being unrelenting only in its capacity to bore me.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT!, December 11, 2005

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Russell T. Hess, Jr. "flixfix" (lakeland, fl) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mangler Reborn (DVD)

After reading all the nay sayer reviews of this little opus I wonder if they saw what I saw? Granted it isn't Saw or the AWESOME High Tension, but it is a major step up from Mangler 2.0. I mean, its suspenseful, gory, and disturbing. Its a worthy sequel to a lesser effort entry to start off with.