Howdy readers! Welcome to Day 1 of
Grindhouse Flicks. Thought we start off with a horror/
slasher/thriller. A story of a cop that may have been a bit
abusive on the streets, tough nosed and hard hitting, his deeds of
good intentions caught up with him landing him right smack in prison.
This is Maniac Cop.
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| Freddy Kruger got buff! |
Written by Larry Cohen (Black
Caesar, It's Alive, It Lives Again, Q, Perfect Strangers, Best
Seller, A Return to Salem's Lot and Deadly Illusion) and
directed by horror director William Lustig (The
Violation of Claudia, Maniac, Vigilante, Maniac Cop, Hit List and
Relentless) our film opens on the desolate, crime-ridden
streets of New York that just happens to look like L.A. And regions
of Culver City California for most of it. Ahem, the rampant street
crime is pouring in as a young woman evades a couple of muggers only
to find a beat cop in uniform. Pleading for his help, this mammoth
sized flat foot snaps her neck like a twig and then tackles her
muggers. A tad excessive? Perhaps.
With this rash of homicides Detective
McCrae (Tom Atkins of The Rockford Files, The Fog, Escape from
New York, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Night of the Creeps,
Lethal Weapon, Turn of Faith and My Bloody Valentine) is on
the case trying to make heads or tails of this but pieces together
from more than a dozen witnesses there is a big man in a cop's
uniform dropping people like it is deer season.
The Commissioner (Richard
Roundtree of Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, Shaft in Africa, Earthquake,
Day of the Assassin, A Time to Die, Roc, Ballistic and Se7en)
and the Captain (William Smith of Laredo, Any Which Way You
Can, Conan the Barbarian, The Outsiders and Island of Witches)
warn McCrae it is his ass on the chopping block if this gets out to
the general public.
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| I said the damn words!...basically. |
Meanwhile housewife Ellen Forrest
(Victoria Catlin of Ghoulies, Slow Burn, Maid to Order, Maniac
Cop, Mutant on the Bounty and Howling V: The Rebirth)thinks
since her husband isn't jumping her bones and is acting all weird
that maybe hubby Jack (Bruce Campbell of The Evil Dead,
Crimewave, Intruder, Moontrap, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, The
Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Ellen, Burn Notice and Ash vs Evil
Dead) is taking extra shifts to commit macabre murders and
maybe a necklace out of testicles and the like. After following him
to a cheesy and sleazy hotel, it turns out Jack is actually just
having an affair with another officer Theresa Mallory (Laurene
Landon of ...All the Marbles, Airplane II: The Sequel, Hundra, Maniac
Cop and Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance). Um...yay hubby
isn't a psycho, he's an adulterer.
Ellen leaves in a huff screaming
lawyer, his ass and the whole ball of wax all the while crying
profusely that our "Officer McLarge" takes care of her.
Jack goes on patrol only to find out his wife has been bumped off and
the rest of the force is looking at Jack as a prime suspect. Yeah,
right height guys but nowhere near the build. McCrae and Mallory
pool their resources to prove that Jack isn't the killer when a name
surfaces, Matt Cordell. A highly decorated street cop who was
convicted of brutality while looking into corruption in city hall.
A corrupt mayor??!!! Well now that never happens. Cordell got
jumped by some prisoners, shanked a few times and allegedly died in
Sing Sing. Or did he?
Can McCrae and Mallory prove Cordell is
still alive? Can Jack see the "Forrest" from the trees?
Can Jake stop doing stupid puns??
A few fun facts on the flick.
Director/writer Sam Raimi does a cameo
as an ace reporter. Both Bruce Campbell and Robert Z'Dar (Matt
Cordell) have been dubbed the title "The Chin". The
body count for this slasher was 19 dead. Modest by most horror flick
standards.
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| Umm...maybe he is also a chiropractor? |
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