Synopsis/Details
Business is looking grim for JAY KAUFMANN, leasing manager of Brookfield Mall in New York. Without any tenants to bring in income, the mall is minutes away from being razed. Hope, however, arrives in the form of ASHTON CLAUSE, a mysterious antiques dealer with a fanatic for malls and their creator, Austrian architect VICTOR GRUEN. He promises to bring business to Jay, enough to save Brookfield from its inevitable closure. Fearful of letting down his father’s legacy, Jay accepts, but having his doubts, orders his secretary to dig deeper into Ash’s history. Meanwhile, Jay’s son GABE, a worker at one of the mall’s few remaining stores, bumps into Ash and learns that he knew of his mother, MELINDA’s, death and did nothing to stop it. Furious, Gabe warns his father of Ash’s suspicious nature, which turns out to be validated by Jay’s secretary’s research, which connects Ash to a series of grisly murders at an old mall in Illinois. Determined to stop him, Gabe confronts Ash to know more about his intentions, but Ash refuses to speak and instead gives Gabe a clue that lies within his past. Eventually, Gabe, Jay, and his friends track Ash down and confront him, where he reveals that Brookfield must be destroyed for a new mall to be built, one that will better suit his and Victor’s vision. The group chase Ash back to the mall, and, after a chaotic battle with some zombies and a tornado, throw in the white flag. Ash offers them mercy in exchange for the mall’s destruction. Gabe and his friends agree and escape to their freedom, while Jay works on rebuilding Brookfield from the ground up, the way Ash always envisioned.
