After a string of disappointments culminating in this silly waste of time, it's hard to care if horror's golden boy carries on or not". Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle wrote: "Perhaps it's time for Tobe Hooper to hang up his light meter. even the least demanding of genre fans will be hard-pressed to tremble in its presence". Richard Harrington of The Washington Post wrote, " The Mangler is ludicrous from start to finish: its plot lines dangle, its effects fail to dazzle and the acting and directing are uniformly bad. On film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 27% approval rating based on 11 reviews. It also failed in the European box office. In its first week, it underperformed and took in $1.1M on 800 screens at the US box office. New Line Home Entertainment released it on DVD on 17 August 2004. The Mangler was released in the US on 3 March 1995. Jeremy Crutchley as JJJ Pictureman / Mortician.Robert Englund as William "Bill" Gartley.He throws away the flowers he brought her and leaves the factory for good. However, to his great dismay, he discovers the machine has returned to its place on the floor and resumed its duties as a speed ironer and Sherry, now missing her ring finger from her encounter with the Mangler, has taken her uncle's place as the new tyrannical owner of the Blue Ribbon Laundry. Pictureman, who warns him not to trust anyone in the town missing a body part as they are possessed by the Mangler. While waiting to hear news of Sherry, John receives a letter from his departed friend and confidant, photographer J.J.J.
The machine draws back and becomes still, and John and Sherry escape. Suddenly, something falls from the machine into the water and a mechanical wail ensues. In their hurry to escape, they fall through a large manhole into the sewer below, the machine struggling to get to them.
The Mangler tears Mark apart, killing him, while John and Sherry descend a flight of stairs, where Sherry attempts to give herself to the Mangler to stop it, but John stops her.
The three run through the warehouse, chased by the now-mobile Mangler. The machine bursts to life and now appears to have a mind of its own, shedding pieces of metal and rising up like a wild beast. Since the machine was accidentally fed the same antacids, Mark realises that not only was the exorcism useless, as the demon is still alive, it is now stronger than ever. Mark suddenly realises that the key ingredient in the antacids is deadly nightshade, also called "the Hand of Glory" as outlined in his occult book. As the three sigh with relief, Hunton takes some antacids, admitting to Mark that they belonged to Mrs. The machine gives one last groan and shuts down. With Sherry's help, the two men attempt to exorcise the demon – which also kills Gartley, his lover and protégé Lin Sue and the laundry's foreman Stanner – by reciting a prayer and administering holy water. They also come to learn Gartley and the town elders have all sacrificed their virginal daughters to the machine on their 16th birthdays in exchange for wealth and power, with Gartley planning to do the same to Sherry to complete his end of the bargain. As the plot progresses, Mark tries to convince Hunton that the machine may be possessed, especially after seeing the possessed ice box, and the only way to stop the deaths is to exorcise the machine to dispel whatever demon is inhabiting it. Police officer John Hunton, with the help of his demonologist brother-in-law Mark, investigates the incident and others that soon follow. When she attempts to collect them, the safety shield inexplicably lifts up and traps her hand inside, followed by her entire body getting pulled into the machine, crushed and folded like a sheet. Frawley, an elderly worker, struggling to open a bottle of antacids, spills them on the moving tread. Sparks and light streams occur when both the blood and the ice box come into close contact with the Mangler. The trouble starts when Gartley's niece, Sherry, accidentally cuts herself on a lever connected to the machine and splashes blood on the Mangler's tread while trying to avoid being crushed by an old ice box some movers are clumsily carrying past. The Mangler, in Gartley's Blue Ribbon Laundry service, is a laundry press owned by Bill Gartley.
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