The Mangler Reborn

The Mangler Reborn
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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
Release dates	November 29, 2005 (2005-11-29)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.^[1]

Synopsis

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.

Cast

• 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

Reception

Critical reception for The Mangler Reborn was largely negative.^[2][3] DVD Talk panned the film, criticizing it as "a formless, meandering, and stunningly boring little turkey".^[4] 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".^[5]

References

External links

• The Mangler Reborn at the Internet Movie Database

Adaptations of works by Stephen King
Films	Single films The Shining (1980) Cujo (1983) The Dead Zone (1983) Christine (1983) Cat's Eye (1985) Silver Bullet (1985) The Running Man (1987) Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) Graveyard Shift (1990) Misery (1990) The Lawnmower Man (1992) Sleepwalkers (1992) Needful Things (1993) The Dark Half (1993) Dolores Claiborne (1995) Thinner (1996) The Night Flier (1997) The Green Mile (1999) Hearts in Atlantis (2001) Dreamcatcher (2003) Secret Window (2004) Riding the Bullet (2004) 1408 (2007) The Mist (2007) Dolan's Cadillac (2009) A Good Marriage (2014) Mercy (2014) Cell (2016) The Dark Tower (2017) It (2017) Gerald's Game (2017) Multiple films Carrie Carrie (1976) The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) Carrie (2002) Carrie (2013) Creepshow Creepshow (1982) Creepshow 2 (1987) Creepshow III (2007) Children of the Corn Disciples of the Crow (1983) Children of the Corn (1984) The Final Sacrifice (1992) Urban Harvest (1995) The Gathering (1996) Fields of Terror (1998) Isaac's Return (1999) Revelation (2001) Children of the Corn (2009) Genesis (2011) Different Seasons Stand by Me (1986) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Apt Pupil (1998) Firestarter Firestarter (1984) Rekindled (2002) Trucks Maximum Overdrive (1986) Trucks (1997) Pet Sematary Pet Sematary (1989) Pet Sematary Two (1992) The Mangler The Mangler (1995) The Mangler 2 (2002) The Mangler Reborn (2005)
Television	Single films, episodes, or miniseries "Gramma" (1986) "Sorry, Right Number" (1987) It (1990) The Tommyknockers (1993) The Stand (1994) The Langoliers (1995) The Shining (1997) Quicksilver Highway (1997) "The Revelations of Becka Paulson" (1997) Storm of the Century (1999) Stephen King's Desperation (2006) Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006) Bag of Bones (2011) Big Driver (2014) Multiple films or miniseries Salem's Lot Salem's Lot (1979) A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) Salem's Lot (2004) Sometimes They Come Back Sometimes They Come Back (1991) Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996) Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998) Rose Red Rose Red (2002) The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) Series Golden Years (1991) The Dead Zone (2002–2007) Kingdom Hospital (2004) Haven (2010–2015) Under the Dome (2013–2015) 11.22.63 (2016)
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