Story of movie The Mangler Reborn : The Mangler Reborn is a 2005 American horror film and the third entry in the Mangler film series based on a short story by Stephen King. The movie was released straight to DVD on November 29, 2005 by Lions Gate Entertainment and Baseline StudioSystems. Directors Gardner and Cunningham intended the film to be a "rebirth" of the film franchise, with the film not requiring viewers to have seen the prior two films.
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| Directed by | Erik Gardner Matt Cunningham |
| Produced by | Mark Burman Scott Pearlman |
| Written by | Erik Gardner Matt Cunningham |
| Based on | The Mangler by Stephen King |
| Starring | Aimee Brooks Reggie Bannister Weston Blakesley Scott Speiser Juliana Dever Sarah Lilly |
| Music by | Climax Golden Twins |
| Cinematography | Thaddeus Wadleigh |
| Edited by | Matthew Cassel |
| Distributed by | Lions Gate Entertainment, Baseline StudioSystems |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Screenplay
The movie takes place after the events in the first film and follows Hadley (Weston Blakesley), a repairman that purchases the possessed machine from the first movie and becomes obsessed with the machine. Hadley awakens the machine with his blood and after being "eaten" by it, is forced to feed it new blood to stop his corpse from rotting.
- Aimee Brooks as Jamie
- Reggie Bannister as Rick
- Weston Blakesley as Hadley
- Scott Speiser as Mike
- Juliana Dever as Louise Watson
- Sarah Lilly as Beatrice Watson
- Renee Dorian as Gwen
- Rhett Giles as Sean
- Jeff Burr as Lawnmowing Man
Critical reception for The Mangler Reborn was largely negative. DVD Talk panned the film, criticizing it as "a formless, meandering, and stunningly boring little turkey". Reel Film also gave a negative review, writing that while "the film comes off as a masterpiece when compared with its predecessors, The Mangler Reborn ultimately just doesn't work".
