Shopping mall

Shopping malls are large public structures which houses individual market outlets of varying types and specialities including clothing stores, shoe/sunglass and other similar apparel outlets, music stores, video stores and sporting equipment outlets. Most malls also boast a food court which includes many notable restaurant and fast food chains and coffee shops.

In 1986, Jim Wynorski directed the comedy/horror film Chopping Mall, which included the fictional setting of the Park Plaza Mall. The mall was notable for its state-of-the-art security system, which included security shutters across all exits, and three high-tech security robots, programmed to disable and apprehend would-be thieves through the use of tranquilizer guns and tasers. Following the "science gone wrong" trope, the robots naturally go out of control and begin slaughtering a group of employees who decided to hold an after-hours sex party after the mall had closed. The footage of the Park Plaza Mall was shot at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, located at 15301 Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California. The exterior shots of the mall were taken from the Beverly Center, located at 8500 Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles.

The Prosperity Mall, was one of the main settings featured in the 2002 horror/comedy Eight Legged Freaks. The Prosperity Mall is where the citizens of Prosperity, Arizona made their final stand against a horde of giant spiders. Sheriff Samantha Parker made an emergency broadcast, telling people to convene at the mall because she felt that its concrete floors and steel doors would afford them reliable protection. As the group barricaded the entrance to the mall, Chris McCormick and Harlan Griffith went to the roof to use an antenna to get a signal so they could send out an S.O.S. call. One of the larger spiders tore open a hole through the front of the mall, allowing the smaller spiders egress. Many people died, but Mayor Wade managed to find an area that could be uncovered that led down into the McCormick Mines. The rest of the survivors fled down into the mines as the spiders tore apart the mall. Mayor Wade resurfaced just in time to see the entire mall collapse to the ground. He hoped that his insurance would cover the damage.