Hear Some Tracks From Waxwork's Friday the 13th & Chopping Mall Scores

Waxwork Records is set to put out vinyl releases for Harry Manfredini's Friday the 13th and Chuck Cirino's Chopping Mall scores this summer, and they revealed the new cover art and some sample tracks over on Fangoria the other day. Read on below for more details and the sample tracks:

Friday the 13th features include liner notes from director Sean Cunningham and composer Harry Manfredini, a heavyweight tip-on-old-style gatefold jacket featuring full artwork by Jay Shaw, and a printed 12”x12” insert with artwork by Jacqui Oakley. Releases August 29th

Vinyl details include: Camp Blood vinyl: Woodland Green and Brown haze with Blood Splatter Crystal Lake vinyl: Deep Murky Green Crystal Lake Blood Filled vinyl (limited to 100 units)

Chopping Mall packaging details include 180 gram fluorescent pink vinyl housed in a heavyweight tip on jacket with film laminate gloss finish. A limited run of 500 neon yellow with neon green haze variants will be available via Waxwork Records. Full package artwork including a 12” x 12” inserted art print has been created by Australian artist duo We Buy Your Kids. Chopping Mall will be out a month earlier than Friday the 13th, on July 29th.

Chopping Mall - Capsule Review

Here's a cover for the never-officially-released score from Jim Wynorski's hilarious killer mall security robot epic Chopping Mall. Also known by the even cooler name of Killbots. If it had actually been released as Killbots it would've made for a cool Double Feature with Killdozer. Of course those don't really have much in common apart from 'kill' in the title, and they were made like a decade apart. Maybe it wouldn't have worked as a Double Feature, but at least it would've looked cool on a marquee. On a pointless side note, there are actually bands called both The Killbots and Killdozer, which pisses me off because I totally would of used either of those names for my own band. You know, if I had an actual band that is.

Moving on. Chopping Mall was Wynorski's second film, after something I've never seen called The Lost Empire. It features a trio of robots (one of whom has an "unpleasantly ethnic quality") who are designed to act as overnight security guards. Of course, as with any movie ever made that features any kind of robot, the robots eventually turn evil and try to kill every human that they can kill. And kill humans they do, including one poor woman (with kinda scary looking lopsided fake boobs) who has her head blown off in one of the all time great comedic exploding head scenes. With the mix of humor, horror (albeit very slight horror) and exploding heads it's really kinda like a 70-minute version of Dawn of the Dead, if the zombies were security guards. And robots.

Robot blood!