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Maniac Cop (1988) (piefed.social)
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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

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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.)

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[–] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

as a huge Bruce Campbell fan, how have I never heard of Jack of All Trades? thank you, gonna download it now

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jack is outrageously funny, irreverent, and a bit too adult for broadcast TV at the time.

Just like Brisco County, he was just a little early. A couple years later when the dedicated cable channels hit their stride he would've been very successful (FX, SciFi, etc).

I bought the Jack DVD's, they were like $20 - totally worth it.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Bruce is in Maniac Cop, but he doesn't get the chance to be very "Campbellesque" ;)

I've still never got round to watching Jack of All Trades, although back in the day I did catch some episodes of its "stablemate" Cleopatra 2525.

I did finally see Brisco a few years ago, such a shame it was cut short. Apparently it was during a moral panic about violence on TV, and the campaign group picked an episode of Brisco featuring a boxing match, and they counted every single punch as another incidence of violence, giving a total that made it seem like it was a Blumhouse slasher.