Maniac Cop Page #4

Synopsis: Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York City by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and City Hall attempts a cover-up, Frank McCrae heads the investigation. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself under arrest as the chief suspect, having been the victim of a set-up by the real killer and a mysterious woman phone-caller. Forrest, his girlfriend Theresa, and McCrae set out to solve the puzzle before the Maniac Cop can strike again.
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Director(s): William Lustig
Production: Trans World Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
1988
85 min
369 Views


Must remove now, Councillor.

Councillor,

We intend to have this suspect,

appear in a lineup for the witnesses,

first thing tomorrow morning.

Good day Sir.

These guys are trying to make

me the fall guy.

Everybody's screaming for

blood I was and I'm it.

I'm certain you had no

control over what happened.

Call it irresistible impulse.

That's a legal defense.

Better yet, bet you don't even

remember committing the crimes,

Blackouts, Momentary

lapses of memory.

What are you talking about?

I'm not crazy. I didn't do it.

You were seeing a

therapist on a regular basis.

Come on, a marriage counselor.

I've got a witness. Okay,

Somebody else who was there.

I don't want to bring her into this

unless there's no other way.

Pal! You need all

the help you can get.

Its gonna ruin her career.

Let's give it till the end of the week.

If they don't find the real killer by then,

I'll name her.

Yeah, so I told my kids,

You see a cop, you cross to the other

side of the street. I see a cop, I'm outta here.

a policeman crossed the street

to the other side.

I seen there my friends

murdered by cops.

Shot in the back. Shot when

they didn't have a gun or knife.

You know, cops like killing,

that's why they're cops.

Who's gonna be next, huh?

Cops want you to be scared of them.

That makes them men, real men.

Because without that uniform

what are they? I don't scare.

They respected cops in my day or they

hit you on your head with their billy.

They didn't take no guff.

They were the law.

Nowadays like this, they got

to shoot you to get respect.

Nobody gives no crap

to the cops, no more since this

crazy cop come along.

You see a cop coming now,

you get out of the way!

And there ain't much

crime no more.

Hey, Listen...

But 18 years back I had a case for ya,

This guy made it look as if

a psychopath was at work.

So what does he do then?

He goes in, He kills his wife and it

looks like its one of the serial killings.

Jack, but set up to take

the heat off the real psycho.

You gonna tell me you think

that he's that smart.

He's a cop. Maybe even a Detective.

-F*** you!

-Come on Ripley, why not?

Every Detective keeps his own uniform hanging in the closets and

thats the one thing

you never could get rid off.

Let me tell you if....

If Jack had an alibi,

he would have come

across with it by know.

Jack is protecting someone.

Whoever it is, he doesn't

want to be get involved.

and the killer knows who it is.

And you're a cop.

-F***in I'm a cop.

What the f*** are you?

F*** you.

-You put you in danger

-How?

The scum wants to

lay low for a while,

till he starts

another killing spree.

He likes us to relax our guard.

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Larry Cohen

Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen (born July 15, 1941) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as a B-Movie auteur of horror and science fiction films – often containing a police procedural element – during the 1970s and 1980s. He has since concentrated mainly on screenwriting including the Joel Schumacher thriller Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). In 2006 Cohen returned to the directing chair for Mick Garris' Masters of Horror TV series (2006); he directed the episode "Pick Me Up". more…

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