Review – The Mangler

Tobe Hooper directed this turd? Wow. He used to be way better than this. Somewhere under a pile of amateurish crap is a reasonably good source story by Stephen King about an industrial laundry machine with a will to kill. The original tale was based in part on King’s own experiences working in a laundry back before he was a best-selling author, and thanks to my own time in a similar job I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for it. The movie version, however, is a pale shadow of the simplicity of King’s tale. Here we have an evil laundry owner, a bumbling cop, a haunted ice box, and no end of other unnecessary nonsense. See if desperate