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

• https://dai.ly/x8hqpaf

Full movie

• https://fawesome.tv/movies/10620590/maniac-cop

(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.)