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Maniac Cop

Cast

Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree View All

Crew

Larry Cohen (Writer), William Lustig (Director) View All

Release: May 13th, 1988

Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes

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.

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Iroquois
There are definitely aspects to it that resonate all too well in 2018, though even when it touches on the subject of police brutality (as it can't help but do given that, you know, it's a movie called Maniac Cop), it still ultimately drops that tangent about a third of the way in order to focus on a....

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