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Six college students on their weekend vacation are humiliated and killed one by one by a psycho cop.Six college students on their weekend vacation are humiliated and killed one by one by a psycho cop.Six college students on their weekend vacation are humiliated and killed one by one by a psycho cop.
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A low budget Maniac Cop rip off that is barely passable, made by people who obviously had no idea how to make a horror movie. Contains crappy kills, paranoid teens, and a killer who spits out one liners all while acting as wooden as a post. But hey it also has jokes... What has eighteen legs and two tits... the supreme court! 😂😄😀😐😒
If you're in the mood for a great 80's horror, full of cliches and bad acting, look no further! 6 young adults get together at a mansion in the woods (looks alot like the suburbs) and are slowly dispatched by the killer. A nice selection of cheesy one-liners, along with the ambiguously gay character of Blake Washer, make this a perfect rental for a night of laughs and moans of "oh gaaawd, whatever"!
A country cop has a bad life and turns to satanic worship and killing everyone which happens to include some holidaying young people headed off to a very pretty lodge in middle of America somewhere.
What we are left with is a regular formula campy horror movie where there is always at least one person holding the group back from making reasonable decisions due to his unbreakable desire to holiday with his friends so one by one they get knocked off because no stands up for their own point of view and just leaves.
My primary complaint with this movie is the very wooden execution of the jokes told by the very persistent psycho cop. I laughed maybe once or twice hence I'm not rating Psycho Cop too low it is a B-Horror after all and one needs to remember this at the end which was very typical for Horrors like this.
Other complaints include the movie being too dark especially during the climax kills. You couldn't see what was going on, maybe they've never heard of day for night. Not to mention hardly any of the characters were likeable in any way. There's no T/A and no sex scenes not to mention what seems like the tiniest budget for blood and gore.
You can understand why many didn't like it that said however it does have very good flow. There's hardly a minute where something isn't happening to keep your attention and the script is solid for a B-Horror as well. It's only let down be the feeling the movie was lacking in so many other ways as previously mentioned.
What we are left with is a regular formula campy horror movie where there is always at least one person holding the group back from making reasonable decisions due to his unbreakable desire to holiday with his friends so one by one they get knocked off because no stands up for their own point of view and just leaves.
My primary complaint with this movie is the very wooden execution of the jokes told by the very persistent psycho cop. I laughed maybe once or twice hence I'm not rating Psycho Cop too low it is a B-Horror after all and one needs to remember this at the end which was very typical for Horrors like this.
Other complaints include the movie being too dark especially during the climax kills. You couldn't see what was going on, maybe they've never heard of day for night. Not to mention hardly any of the characters were likeable in any way. There's no T/A and no sex scenes not to mention what seems like the tiniest budget for blood and gore.
You can understand why many didn't like it that said however it does have very good flow. There's hardly a minute where something isn't happening to keep your attention and the script is solid for a B-Horror as well. It's only let down be the feeling the movie was lacking in so many other ways as previously mentioned.
A devil worshipping police officer follows a group of college students to a vacation home, where he proceeds to murder them.
Yet another teen slasher flick from the 80's, lesser known than most, with all of the typical elements of the genre in place, except for nudity and sexual situations. It is worse acted than most though, and features one of the most inept performances in film history by Bobby Ray Shafer. My rating: 4 out of 10. Rent at your own risk.
Yet another teen slasher flick from the 80's, lesser known than most, with all of the typical elements of the genre in place, except for nudity and sexual situations. It is worse acted than most though, and features one of the most inept performances in film history by Bobby Ray Shafer. My rating: 4 out of 10. Rent at your own risk.
My review was written in January 1990 after watching the film on South Gate Entertainment video cassette.
A catchy title fronts for a very boring video feature film, offering nothing in the way of diversion for horror fans.
Bobby Ray Shafer is a bland choice for the title role, a policeman who's a satanist into the antisocial activity of stabbing folks for a blood ritual. Later on we find out he's the product of a broken home and is just posing as a cop.
He terrorizes a bunch of stupid teens, off on a weekend outing at a remote house (as per conry horror genre format). Not much happens except for the clockwork killings, climaxing with the heroine surrounded by her friends who've been literally crucified.
Weakest aspect of Wallace Potts' picture, a presentation from British producer Cassian Elwes, is the set of unfunny witticisms penned for Shafr to say while killing people. Tech credit are unimpressive; gore is the films' sole rasion d'etre.
A catchy title fronts for a very boring video feature film, offering nothing in the way of diversion for horror fans.
Bobby Ray Shafer is a bland choice for the title role, a policeman who's a satanist into the antisocial activity of stabbing folks for a blood ritual. Later on we find out he's the product of a broken home and is just posing as a cop.
He terrorizes a bunch of stupid teens, off on a weekend outing at a remote house (as per conry horror genre format). Not much happens except for the clockwork killings, climaxing with the heroine surrounded by her friends who've been literally crucified.
Weakest aspect of Wallace Potts' picture, a presentation from British producer Cassian Elwes, is the set of unfunny witticisms penned for Shafr to say while killing people. Tech credit are unimpressive; gore is the films' sole rasion d'etre.
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- TriviaAll entries contain spoilers
- GoofsDirectly following The Caretaker's untimely demise, Doug, lounging poolside, claims to have heard screaming off in the woods. The Caretaker hadn't made a sound.
- Quotes
Officer Joe Vickers: You have the right to remain...*dead*.
- Alternate versionsGerman VHS release by UFA Video was cut by 17 seconds (related to violence/gore) to secure a "Not under 18" rating and also avoid being indexed by the BPjM. Starting with the 2011 DVD release by Voulez Vous Film, the cuts were was waived in Germany and since then all subsequent German video releases are completely uncensored now.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Psycho Cop Returns (1993)
- SoundtracksSweet 'n Nasty
Written by Diana Harris, Art Wood and Peter Margolis
Performed by Diana Harris
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