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Maniac Cop (1988)

Directed by William Lustig

Crime | Horror

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Overview

In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop’s uniform. Soon the police search and find a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, suspected of murdering his own wife and the rest of the unfortunate individuals to die by the Maniac Cop’s reign of terror. To prove his innocence, he investigates the case with his partner, Theresa Mallory.

Rated R | Length 85 minutes

Actors

Tom Atkins | Bruce Campbell | Laurene Landon | Richard Roundtree | William Smith | Robert Z'Dar | Sheree North | Nina Arvesen | Nick Barbaro | Lou Bonacki | Barry Brenner | Victoria Catlin | James Dixon | Corey Michael Eubanks | Jill Gatsby | Rocky Giordani | John F. Goff | William J. Gorman | Jon Greene | Teddy M. Haggarty | Dan Hicks | Erik Holland | Dennis Junt | Marcia Karr | Judy Kerr | Jake LaMotta | Judy Levitt | Jason Lustig | William Lustig | Vic Manni | Tito Núñez | Daniel Ortiz | Louis Pastore | Frank Pesce | Bernie Pock | Ed Polgardy | Sam Raimi | Carla Reynolds | Jefferson Richard | Adele Sparks | Tom Taylor | Ingrid Van Dorn | Luke Walter | Patrick Wright | Nicholas Yee | Lee Arnone | Nay K. Dorsey | George Buck Flower | Bill Waldron | Alma Washington | Ken Lerner | Leo Rossi | Charles Croughwell | Ron Holmstrom

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Dinner & a movie: was painting and decided to flip this on in lieu of the Cubs game, which I was following the score updates anyways and that was a crazy game. Plugged my laptop into my receiver so I could crank the volume since I was painting the entrance corridor. Was particularly interested in tuning in to this installment of The Last Drive-In bc Bruce Campbell (and later Bill Lustig) joining Joe Bob for the interview segments. That was really the highlight for me since I couldn’t watch closely until I was done painting.

It was cool to hear/see Bruce just giving candid answers to JB’s questions. Was surprised to hear that EVIL DEAD cost that much to make (~$400K). Neat to hear about making the MANIAC COP flicks w/Lustig and why Bruce wanted to get killed early in the sequel after getting a bump in salary.

I did finish painting and made a frozen pizza so I could watch the rest of this movie. Was amusing to see Sam Raimi as the reporter at the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Such a Larry Cohen / Bill Lustig move to shoot all that footage during the parade! The first and only time I’ve seen this was nearly ten years ago at a movie night w/Ron and Pat. Since I have the blu so I’ll probably give it a proper viewing soon after hearing all the little factoids from Bruce and Bill.

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