The Mangler

""The god of all machines, the god that measures all good and evil.""

- - Bill Gartley ""I am the machine!""

- - The demonic spirit of the Mangler possessing Hadley

 The Mangler is a demonically-possessed machine fueled by bloodlust that serves as the primary antagonist of the 1978 short story "The Mangler" by Stephen King, and also of the story's 1995 movie adaption and its third sequel "The Mangler Reborn".

There is a different and malicious antagonist with a similar appettite for blood taking form in a rogue computer virus in the second sequel "The Mangler 2".

Trivia

 * Stephen King who created the 1978 The Mangler short story, has stated that, among the many jobs he took to support his family before he became famous, he worked in an industrial laundromat.