Watch a real, 8-minute version of Mr. Robot’s ‘80s slasher film parody

Warning: minor spoilers for Mr. Robot ahead.

The second season of Mr. Robot has spent a lot of time building up the world around its protagonist Elliot. And last week, it revealed an interesting tidbit: the origin of hacker group fsociety’s trademark Anonymous-style mask, which comes from an obscure piece of made-up ‘80s schlock called The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie. While we see only a couple of shots in the episode, the show’s creators actually filmed an entire 8-minute opening scene for the film — which, for the record, is about a masked man who murders upper-crust preppies with a sharpened croquet mallet.

For a throwaway Easter egg with no bearing on the main show, it’s a pretty good parody of ‘70s and ‘80s exploitation films, especially the ones that site.

If there are any hints at future Mr. Robot developments in Massacre, they’re buried too deep for me to find — except for the fact that it’s distributed by the sinister E Corp. But it’s left me with a deep hankering for weird genre films, and it may do the same to you. If you’d like to watch the bourgeoisie strike back with a huge dose of body horror, you can follow up with the legitimately well-made Lisa and the Devil. Or, of course, you could pick just about any slasher film, starting with John Carpenter’s Halloween.

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