I remember watching this as a kid, and it really scared me unlike other horror movies. Something about being a little boy and being told that Cops are the good guys, and then seeing a Cop killing people really messed with my young mind.
@@mastervader218 So are you a 2A die hard then? Or do you think you’d stop an intruder with a strongly worded message? Police are meant to be the good guys. They are ultimately just people and people are fallible.
Tom atkins is a ledgend..the fog,escape from new york,halloween 3..he was even in lethal weapon. The man for sum reason always got the good looking women.
Agreed! The genuine enjoyment really shines through! It's nice to have such positivity and interesting information and trivia in videos like this. RU-vid needs more of it.
GoodBadFlicks Thank you Cecil for continuing to produce this series in spite of youtube's bullshit, though I would really miss you I would understand if you did quit because one's Family should always come first.
Mmm, yeah, I can see how that would be maybe conflict with how his character in the film was having an affair with his wife. Little too close to home...
@@dsandoval9396 Christine Deveau isn't a bitch. She was tired of how long her husband was being away from home. They were married for about 6 years, and they also had two children, but Bruce was away constantly. He wasn't even home for 2 of those years, and she knew that his work schedule likely wasn't going to change, and it was majorly upsetting to her, so she decided this was over. Campbell said it best where that they maintained themselves and didn't cause problems in front of the kids, even if he couldn't prevent the inevitable. I found out through his biography.
"It was about a good cop who was seemingly back from the dead" What? He was definitely not a good cop. He is described as being extremely violent and straight up murdering suspects while he was a cop. He was admired by other cops for his extreme brutality and taking out the "bad guys". I liked how the film contrasts the "acceptable" violence the Maniac Cop commits while he was alive, with the "unacceptable" violence he commits when he becomes undead. The violence he commits while he's alive is seen as legitimate by society and applauded by the other cops because it is targeted at "undesirables". Then when he becomes undead, he now kills indiscriminately, so suddenly his violence is considered bad because now the "wrong people" are the victims of it.
Love this movie and it's two sequels! Bruce, Z'Dar, Lustig and Tom Atkins all rock! Glad to see you cover this movie, I hope it inspires more folks in your audience to check it out and hopefully create new fans :D
Thank you for researching and compiling such amazing resources for these smaller and forgotten films. So lucky to have these “exploring” videos. The fact that movie studios don’t give you 💰💰💰to produce these for their films is crazy to me.
the first few minutes are literally a reel of some of my favourite quasi-exploitation horror movies. I love Inferno and The Stuff is (intentionally) hilarious!
Victor Kruger Alan Smithee is one of my favorite directors! The range of genres he does is huge. Not even counting the amount of films he has done! It's like dozens directors all wrapped into 1. He has even done a documentary about himself! The guy is a genius!! ;)
YESSSSSSSSS!!! Thank you X infinity for doing an 'Exploring' feature on this. This ranks No. 3 on my greatest of all time list and No. 1 on my greatest movie taglines of all time list. Cheers Cecil.
My girlfriend I just broke up with last month is close friends with Bill. Him and I even spoke on the phone recently. He sent me autographed blu ray copies of Maniac and Maniac Cop last week from Blue Underground. What a coincidence you just uploaded this. Thanks for this.
More trivia: The 4 songs that are briefly heard in the film were composed and sung by David Carradine and his then wife Gail Jensen (who wrote The Falling Guy's theme). Carradine played the main cop in Q The Winged Serpent, also with Richard Roundtree. Carradine and Larry Cohen had been friends since very young.
Why? Why would anybody give thumbs down? Ur movie reviews are better than some movies. If theres a movie that i despise... I'll happily watch your review of it!
You can't have 80s or 90s B movie without Buck Flower. One of my favorite scenes of his is in Wishmaster when he calls Reggie Bannister "bald-headed baboon".
It’s almost coincidental that I’ve chosen to write a paper about this movie for a class. I’m supposed to do an analysis for this movie, and there’s some real good information about it too. I’m ready for another viewing of this movie with this new info in mind.
Loved loved this film! I always used to wonder what was up with Z'Dar's face? Found out recently that he suffered from Cherubism. Def distracting..but he was really good in this👍👍
I'm glad to see this on your channel, as it's been a favorite of mine for a little while, now. I'm also dropping by to say that the more I dig into your channel, the more I like what I see. Can't say that I agree on every movie you go to bat for, but just to find a positive channel that's willing to give films a chance and be fair to them in a community rife with cynics, it's... it's such a nice thing to stumble on. Not to mention all of the movie trivia I'm learning about along the way.
Thank you! I don't expect everyone to agree with me all the time, I just like presenting some movies they may never have heard of or talking about films that deserve more positive attention. :)
Congrats on another great video, this channel has quickly become one of my favorites. BTW you should consider doing an episode of Exploring on John Dies at the End. It's a fantastic horror comedy that would fall perfectly in with the type of films you show case.
This was a brilliant video, GoodBadFlicks. I'm surprised you made no mention of the legendary William Smith playing the part of the overzealous Captain Ripley. The guy has a voice that sounds like rusty nails being fed through a meat grinder.
Thank you so much for championing movies that average horror fans have either forgotten or haven't seen. I try so hard to do the same thing at our video store
Thank you for this review, I added the blue ray to my amazon buy list on to buy, in the early 90's bruce was at the horror con by lax and I had a few stills signed and got the look of death from bruce when said I really liked maniac cop, I had both the tv edit and on vhs at the time
7:53 I look to hearing your feelings on those Cecil I actually enjoy both part 2&3 a lot more then the first film nothing against it just that those sequels I watched more growing up.
just want to make sure I am hearing this right. Campbell's character was cheating with a producer's wife (which I assume was a character in the movie) right? Not the actual actor was cheating with an producers actual wife in real life?
AWESOME!!! Thank you Cecil!!! And on a side note: this flick celebrates it's 30th anniversary!! As a bonus, here's my top 10 wishlist to see on GBF's Exploring: Tango & Cash (this one also has Z'Dar as a villian), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Kingpin, Stir of Echoes, The Game, Drag Me to Hell, Willow, Wolfen, Nightbreed and Deadly Friend.
Some great choices up there. I love just about all of the ones you want "explored!" If he does Kingpin, Cecil has to make a remark about Roger Clemens' cameo. It is hilarious!
Bruce Campbell seems to be hard on a lot of his early work. Which is fair I think. He clearly takes acting seriously if you've ever heard him talk about it and he has definitely improved since his early days
Man, I could see Maniac Cop crossing into whatever horror franchise they wanted to. It'd be cool if he somehow hears of a masked murderer down in Jersey and decides to bring the law to Crystal Lake.
Cecil, i saw you did an "exploring the troll hunter" a while back, which is one of my favorite norwegian movies and i would like to recomend another norwegian low budget horror comedy. Its called "Dead Snow" im sure you will like it :)
Great video, you mentioned Buck Flower but not veteran heavy Willaim Smith who played Captain Ripley, Who I think is an underated actor! I love this film and it's an awesome Retrospective!
Smith as the Russian advisor was probably the best thing about the original Red Dawn, and I remember liking the Simon & Simon episode he was in, "Kronk Is Out."
I liked him when he played the good vampire in Grave of the Vampire, he also trained with Bruce Lee and according to Linda Lee Cadwell , Bruce considered him an amazing martial artist. I loved him playing henchmen in Red Dawn, or the main villain in the post apocalyptic film The Ultimate Warrior, William Smith is always an intense heavy
Great to see back your "Explorin" series to B Movies :) I'm guessing is the new version of the Google Censor bot that got you back on this :) Great work as always! I'll catch your next Twitch session
Not exactly. The previous films were a test to see what would get flagged. It became clear that everything I do gets autoflagged so why bother? I was seeing if there was any difference but it doesn't matter what I do, it all gets flagged no matter how tame it is.
Yep, that bot seems sort or arbitrary, same thing happened with me, when I started experimenting with gaming videos but after getting all of them demonetized even if I censored explicit language, I decided to keep my channel's focus on Airsoft and camping/hiking Anyway, as I said, it's great to see the "Exploring" series back to B Movies :) I really enjoy what you do In a non related note, I recently learned that you used to do editing as a day time job (I can't remember if it was twitch or in RU-vid were you say it); I have always loved the movies, whatever if it is B Movies, mainstream or anything in between and learning to edit has open a whole new perspective on Cinema for me. Editors are like the linemen in a football, no one remembers them but everybody knows the Quarterback but if there weren't any linemen the QB couldn't make anything done :)
Maniac Cop is awesome! I haven't seen the sequels yet so I will check those out in the near future. Psycho Cop and its sequel sounds like an awesome watch.
Part 2 is badass! Awesome stunts and action in that one, there's a scene similar to a certain scene in the first Terminator that i won't spoil, but it's something to behold, you'll know what i mean when you see it ;) Part 3 has its flaws but is a lot of fun too.
Beginning of 90s and we just get our new video cassette player..we go with my brother and my dad ro the video club rent some films cause was xmas holidays..one of them was this one..I did watch a lot of horror movies before and after that point..but this was the only one to get me scared and make my stomach tight..so good memories back then..
Thing about this movie is, Frank McCray is the real star of the movie. He's the one you get to know and sympathize with, but somehow the movie seems to want you to view Bruce Campbell as the protagonist. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm upset over Frank McCray's fate. In any event, another great video.
McCrae isn't the star though. His function in the film was to be a Decoy Protagonist, when it was Bruce Campbell's character that was the real protagonist since the plot centered around him. And personally, McCrae is an example of Decoy Protagonists done right, since you think he's going to survive, only to soon die and you're left with those who center around the plot. It's just a simple thing to put together.
I finally found what had made Samurai Cop greenlighted ( 8:26 ), where Robert Z'dar featured as a Yakuza hitman. Poland was only country which released the movie on VHS (before the movie got infamous for "horny nurse" on RU-vid), and its cover looks quite similar to Maniac Cop (they even copy/paste Maniac Cop's tagline "You have the right to remain.. for good").
An Unexpected surprise, loved the video Cecil and I really dug the first movie nice little thriller blend and I'm so mad Bruce Campbell is down on his role bc I think it's one of his best.
From what I've heard, Campbell doesn't hate the film because of the film, but because he was going through a nasty divorce at the time. So his personal life tainted any enjoyment he may have had about starring as the lead protagonist of Maniac Cop.
Don't tell those who know how much I love Jason Vorhees, but Matt Cordell is my favorite horror villain of all time. He drives, he can shoot a gun, he drives. He's definitely badass to the bone. I happen to love all 3 of the Maniac Cop films, including Badge Of Silence. So please don't bag on 3 too hard. Btw, I got the chance to see this one in theaters in '88. Weirdly enough, on my prom night, I went to an afterparty and guess what was on the TV. Yup. Maniac Cop.
