Maniac Cop (1988)
A killer dressed in police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
You have the right to remain silent… forever!
Personnel
Director
- William Lustig
Starring
- Tom Atkins
- Bruce Campbell
- Robert Z’Dar
- Laurene Landon
- Richard Roundtree
- William Smith
- cameo from Sam Raimi
Info
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_Cop
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095583/
- https://www.justwatch.com/mx/pelicula/maniac-cop (adjust for your location)
Trailer
Full movie
(Warning: there’s a licensed copy available on YouTube, 1hr 19min, but it screws up the ending, cutting most of it. It was only after running into that problem that I finally remembered it was on Fawesome, complete at 1hr 25min.)
I’m pretty sure I saw this in the 90s. I remembered it a lot more “exploitationy” but seeing it now it was more like a fairly competent TV movie. Maybe the sequels are trashier and I’m confusing the original with the sequels. (For example, I could have sworn I remember seeing Robert Z’Dar in Hell Comes to Frogtown, but it turns out he’s only in Return to Frogtown which I didn’t even realize existed.)
Thanks. 2 & 3 are on YouTube, don’t know if legit, I might watch them in the following weeks.