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

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.)

  • Sergio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    Just finished watching it. Not bad, TV-movie-quality but a straightforward script.

    Besides Richard “Shaft” Roundtree and Sam “needs no introduction” Raimi, the actual ex-boxer who “Raging Bull” was based on, Jake LaMotta, plays a Detective.