Psycho Cop Returns (1993) User Reviews

By no means a masterpiece, but you have a lot of fun

[acidburn-10 · 6/10 · 9 May 2015]

After viewing the first Psycho Cop and found that a lot of fun, but completely stupid with awful acting and then finding out that there's a part 2, to be honest I wasn't all that thrilled and thought that it would be just a watered down version of the first one. But boy I was wrong, opinions seemed mixed on this one, but honestly I found this one a whole lot better.

Okay the production isn't any better nor is the effects and acting, but this does have a certain charm to it. This time the setting is in an office building instead of the old camping teenagers in the woods scenario, which was a bit odd for a movie called Psycho Cop, but this setting makes more sense in a way and Bobby Ray Schafer (the cop himself) seems more fun in this one and has more snappier dialogue. Plus the movie itself moves along at a decent pace and I wasn't bored for a minute and the strange turn it takes during the final act was a total surprise and very different and I didn't want this movie to end.

The plot this time we start off with 2 office guys in a coffee shop making plans for a bachelor party at their office building after hours, but they are overheard by officer Joe Vickers himself and he doesn't approve and starts following them and of course when he enters the building all hell breaks loose with several office workers, a security guard and a couple of strippers all lined up ready for his brand of unique justice.

The acting of course is pretty bad but I found the characters a lot more memorable than the first one and some were even likable. Barbara Niven as the obvious final girl was pretty likable and was strong willed and proved to be a decent match for the psycho cop. Mile Dougal was annoying as hell and his acting (if you can call it that) was just strange and all over the place. But the two strippers were a riot and of course Psycho cop himself steals the show.

All in all Psycho Cop Returns is not by any means a masterpiece, but it is a lot of fun and highly enjoyable and honestly never thought that in a million years that I'd enjoy this but I did and I wish that there was a Psycho Cop 3.

"I'm beginning to expect foreplay"

[lost-in-limbo · 6/10 · 20 March 2014]

Well, I didn't see this coming. But I got to hand it to it. It was surprisingly entertaining and easily surpasses the original "Psycho Cop". Think of "Die Hard", but sleazier and done like a slasher outing with a touch of soft-core as Officer Joe Vickers gatecrashes a late- night stag party. Probably even more on the cheap. While the first felt serious with unintentional humour, "Returns" seems to play-up the concept with tongue-in-cheek and self-knowing quips. It's outrageous, sexed-up and totally ups the ante, nasty and gory deaths with Officer Vickers chipping with a witty response nearly every time. Robert R Shaffer returns to the deranged role and he gives an even better performance, which doesn't feel as amateurish and his delivery of the dialogue is less painful. Everything moves at a fast pace, the setting keeps the horror confined, as the body count piles up and the story's developments go over-the-top. The plot is pulpy, but a little creative and the performances are fairly animated with the ravishing Barbara Niven leading the way.

Bad But Good

[kirbylee70-599-526179 · 6/10 · 28 July 2017]

There is a large group of movies made that are considered so bad they're good. I know, it doesn't make sense when you read that does it? But the fact is they are enjoyable on some level even though there are mistakes, bad acting, bad lighting, bad cinematography and more wrong with them. Some are intentional, others are not. In the case of PSYCHO COP RETURNS I'm not quite sure which that is.

Having not seen PSCHO COP I had no idea what to expect here. It doesn't matter as far as I can see. The movie kicks off with a group of office workers planning a bachelor party after hours in their workplace. As two of them walk down the street discussing plans they make the mistake of doing so in front of Officer Joe Vickers. Hearing them discussing drugs he gives them the once over and lets them go. But the truth is he only let them go to get a better idea of where they were heading and with plans on making sure they paid for breaking the law.

Night falls, the office closes and the party begins. Strippers are brought in and quickly disrobe while the guys hoot and holler. Drugs are off the menu as the guy carrying them dumped them before Vickers approached them but alcohol is pouring freely. As all of this goes on there are more people left in the office building. One is a female exec working on a project, the other is a couple working on each other. Yes, believe it or not, they're fooling around in the office.

Vickers enters the building and confronts the security guard and then kills him. Doors locked, elevators in his control, he heads upstairs to take care of the lawbreakers he overheard earlier. What they didn't realize in their fear of a law enforcement officer is that he isn't a standard issue policeman. The truth he is an undead Satanist with psychotic tendencies. In other words, he's evil and like to kill people. This is what he does for the next hour or so.

The movie is a flashback to the films of the time with the body count rising and the gruesome methods of their demise being as creative as the ratings code would allow at the time. The gore is there, the screams are there and the chase sequences are there. And so is what was probably intended to be another franchise in the form of Office Vickers. Poor puns and bright red blood flow freely here but weren't enough to make movie fans embrace the two films. At least at the time.

Instead the films developed a cult type following with fans running VHS copies of the movie until they wore out. A DVD release of the film in 2005 came out but had much of the violence and sexual content removed. Now Vinegar Syndrome has brought out a fantastic version of the film with a blu-ray print that is as clean as you're going to get.

Their version contains plenty of extras as well, something movies like this rarely receive. Included are: A commentary track with Director Adam Rifkin; "Habeas Corpus" - a 43 minute documentary on the making of PSYCHO COP RETURNS, featuring brand new interviews with: Adam Rifkin (Director), Robert R. Shafer (Lead Actor), Dan Povenmire (Screenwriter), Peter Schink (Editor), Miles Dougal (Co-Star), Rod Sweitzer (Co-Star), Nick Vallelonga (Co-Star), Barbara Niven (Co-Star) and Melanie Good (Co-Star); "The Victims of Vickers" - featurette with SFX Artist Mike Tristano; cover artwork by Chris Garofalo; and reversible cover artwork. Not bad for a 20 some year old movie.

One interesting thing to note is that the director is a pseudonym for Adam Rifkin, the director of such films as THE DARK BACKWARD, THE CHASE and DETROIT ROCK CITY as well as having written SMALL SOLDIERS, MOUSEHUNT and ZOOM. He made the film as a learning process and to have fun while making the film. The end result is one that while not a fantastic movie is one of those fun slasher pics from the 80s/90s that is a must see for fans of the genre as well as a great drinking film for those who imbibe. Cheers to Vinegar Syndrome for keeping this one from doing little more than collecting dust.

Never trust a cop!

[Cemetarygirl · 5/10 · 25 January 2008]

I have just received this video in a 'job lot' so I was not expecting anything. Well as others have said It is so bad that it's good. Funny, entertaining, watchable and for the guys t & a with loads of shots of the dancers backside as they run from this fiend Psycho Cop. Like others I have not seen the first and now I do plan to. The cop gets some great lines and the geeky guy was great. Almost lost points when he is shot. Gory death followed by macabre one liners that could make Bond envious. And of course the guy with all the reasons why it cant be so. Well didn't he feel a fool. Some bits are like a soft-porn but with a better writer. The deaths are inventive and the photo-copier is used to its fullest extent. Watch this with an open mind and you will find yourself smiling and laughing at this B-Grade Horror Film

Hilariously Brilliant Stuff

[theverysmellyone · 20 March 1999]

This movie is hilarious. It doesn't try to be a serious horror movie, because the makers knew it was a sucky film and so they added one-liners and jokes. Brilliant! I loved all the death scenes.

I hate to kick a man when he's dead

[sol-kay · 4/10 · 7 December 2005]

(Some Spoilers) Black comedy about a crazed policeman out to enforce the law by crashing a bachelor party at the Stonecipher Building and massacring almost all those in attendance.

At the local donut shop Offcer Vickers, Robert R. Shafer, overhears office workers Larry & Brian, Rod Sweitzer & Milles Dougal, talk about a bachelor party that's to be held that evening at their office with booze and grass and semi-nude women being brought in for adult entertainment.

Vickers a law & order nut and a bit into Satanic practices and sacrifices decides to stop these impending breaches of the law, drinking and having sex on the job, before it happens and to punish those criminals who break it and the only way he knows how is with brutal and deadly force. In the Stonecipher Building everyone is ready and expecting to have a good time with Mr. Stonecipher,John Paxton, their boss being told that their staying over to catch up with their backlog of paperwork. Before you know it the local strippers are let into the building by the night watchman Gus, Al Schuerman, and the drinking and partying starts as office worker Gary, Dave Bean, is given his last fling as a bachelor before he ends up getting hooked. It turns out instead to be Gary's last day alive on earth.

Bloody and in some ways hilarious, with a number of sharp and witty one liners by Officer Vickers, horror flick with Vickers knocking off almost everyone at the party. Vickers starts with Gus who he put a pencil through his brain then works his way up the building finishing off everyone else but Brian & Sharon, Barbara Niven, who survived his rampage. As you would expect Vickers, like almost every villain in these types of films, has superhuman strength and endurance. No matter what happens to him like being pushed down an elevator shaft hit in the midsection ,full force, with an ax and almost having his head burned off with a lighted spray-can he just keeps on going as strong as ever in his crusade to enforce the law that he was sworn to uphold.

The movie has a scene in it that copies the infamous March 1991 Rodney King police beating with Vickers being beaten and kicked by a bunch of outraged citizens, after trying to murder Sharon, with bats sticks and fists as the entire scene is being videotaped by an shocked onlooker,Adam Rifkin. Still Vickers still manages to survive to live and kill another day in another Psycho Cop movie.

Psycho Cop Returns

[Scarecrow-88 · 2/10 · 25 October 2011]

Squares in suits, working in cubicles in some city high rise company, are having a secret bachelor party in the building and will be the unfortunate victims of Bobby Ray Shafer's lunatic, devil-worshiping cop who seems impervious to pain (an ax to the stomach is merely a flesh wound and a fall down an elevator shaft several floors barely makes him limp while chasing the "final heroine"). That's it in a nutshell. While dropping lame endless kill and cop quips, Shafer has his fun decimating practically all characters he comes in contact with. A pencil to the eye, a spear that skewers two adulterous lovers to a wall, a toss of a bimbo off the balcony into a garbage bin below, gun shots that spread the back of skulls to the wall, and even a snapped neck, Shafer has plenty of victims to murder in various ways. I think "Psycho Cop Returns" (I'm not sure any sequel to the wretched original was ever begged for) was an example of the tired slasher genre DOA at the beginning of the 90s. It seems nobody told these guys that people had become numb to these movies by 1992.

The murders are, at some points, somewhat well orchestrated, but the flat, often very obtrusive score (it even tells us when we are supposed to laugh at Shafer's dull jokes which are as obvious and old hat as his comedy killer routine) even ruins what could have been (and still somewhat is) a sizzling softcore sex scene between the attractive, sweaty, pulsating bodies of Justin Carrol and Carol Cummings. Julie Strain is recognized in the credits as "1993's Penthouse Pet of the Year", and she shows up as one of the strippers for the bachelor party (and subsequently the one of many to be on Shafer's kill-list body count). Barbara Niven, as the super-hot accountant, is the heroine of the picture, who will try to out-maneuver the seemingly unkillable Shafer, but everything she tries fails because he just doesn't die. I mean, how can this man outlast a five-minute beat down on the outside of a beer joint as barflies lay into him with aluminum bats repeatedly?!?! He even takes a flaming hairspray via cigarette lighter to the face and seems good to go not long after as if it was merely a scratch for Petesake! I know defenders of this pile of bile will say to me, "Scarecrow, why don't you lighten up? It's not to be taken seriously. It's all in good fun." But, come on, how far can I suspend my disbelief? Really, are the jokes in this really *that* funny? I guess some will say yes, but I just wanted it over as soon as possible. When chicks with overexposed fake tits even bore me, I know the film has no reason to exist. I noticed Niven has stayed busy, she sure was sexy in this movie, but easily duped by Shafer into dropping a gun at the promise he wouldn't shoot the victim in the head is certainly one of many "head-scratching" moments in this dire misfire. Miles Dougal, as the nerdy Brian, is positively painful in his role, whether he's in hysterics or really nervous, everything is heightened to an absurd degree. Oh, vey.

Shafer resurrected himself on "The Office" as Bob Vance, a wonderful supporting part that has really given his career a needed boost from junk such as the Psycho Cop films. I imagine, no matter what I say about this insipid waste of time, many will still celebrate this as bad-movie heaven—eat your hearts out. Ugh.

A rare example of a sequel being far better then the original.

[b_kite · 7/10 · 24 January 2019]

What really elavates Pyscho Cop Returns (aka Psycho Cop 2) is the talent of Adam Rifkin (going under his Rif Coogan alias here) Rifkin completely acts like the first movie never existed which is good considering how bad the original really is, he gives you stuff you want in a movie like this good gore, boobs, sex, and an overall better performance from our killer Bobby Ray Shafer, all things that were missing in the first film. Shafer himself is really good here and it's nice to see his acting and one liners have improved drastically this time around. Penthouse pet and b movie goddess Julie Strain is also along for the ride. It's also nice to see Vingar Syndrome give this thing a great blu ray release, with better picture quality and of course the full uncut version of the film which for years was only available on a super rare VHS tape. Overall, Psycho Cop Returns still isn't as good as its Maniac Cop counterpart, but it's still a fun enjoyable ride in it's own right.

Psycho Cop hacks his way through highrise office bachelor party.

[capkronos · 4/10 · 21 May 2003]

Some oversexed executives decide to throw a bachelor party in a closed-down-for-the-night highrise. Officer Joe Vickers (Bobby Ray Shafer, just as awful as he was in the original) decides that's "against company policy," sneaks into the building and proceeds to slaughter everyone while making stupid wisecracks ("You have the right to remain... dead!"). Other than the guys, a night watchman and male and female office workers are still around and three stripper/hookers (Julie Strain, Melanie Good and "Priscilla Huckleberry"/Maureen Flaherty) show up, so there's plenty of nudity and victims (unlike in the first film).

Incompetently handled gore scene include a pencil to the eye, axe to the stomach and a double impalement, plus a girl tossed off the roof and people pushed down an elevator shaft. Little of this is actually shown thanks to poor editing, though I was only able to see the R-rated version, which seems to have been censored with a chainsaw.

Still, this is a marked improvement over the insufferable original. There are a few laughs, some of the cast members show promise (especially Barbara Niven as the attractive female accountant working late and Miles David Dougal as the nervous/nerdy guy). The weirdest moment occurs at the end of the film, where the director cameos in a scene influenced by the then-topical Rodney King beating! Don't ask.

Vickers is back.

[big-gun · 6/10 · 28 August 2016]

Bobby Ray Shafer and his wisecracking, satanic alter ego Officer Joe Vickers did their second go around in this almost comedic horror movie.

Instead of chasing college kids through the woods, he's invading a clandestine bachelor party in an office building. After overhearing two of the office drones talking about the upcoming festivities (Cop cliché, he's having coffee and a doughnut at the time), he toys with them in his own disturbing way and leaves.

Opening credits and a police cruiser full of human body parts with satanic symbols drawn in blood. Now don't you figure a casual passerby would have noticed? Oh well, no point in over-analyzing.

Larry (Rod Sweitzer) and his paranoid buddy Brian (Miles Dougal) make their way to their crummy jobs in a depressing office building with a terminally grouchy boss, excited over the possibilities the evening holds.

Booze and strippers abound, not to mention two office workers carrying on in the copy room. Enter the uninvited guest with murder on his mind. Laughing and slashing his way through the building, Officer Vickers like the first movie, has a one-liner for every occasion. Sometimes two or three. He also has some pretty creative ways of taking out his victims.

The ending was a cliffhanger, but no third movie has materialized.

I have to admit, I actually found this one more enjoyable than the first. Though I can't help but be curious where Joe in the three or four years that had passed. Oh well, I'm over-analyzing again. If you want to enjoy a couple of campy slasher flicks, spend an evening with Officer Joe Vickers.

More Effort, But Still Lacking

[refinedsugar · 5/10 · 30 January 2024]

'Psycho Cop Returns' improves upon a poor dtv original, but the bar was set pretty low so it doesn't mean as much as it sounds. Satanic cop Joe Vickers is back to dole out his brand of justice, but it's the addition of some decent gore and gratuitous female nudity that make it mildly passable. You just have to tolerant the cliche plot, bad puns and make sure to watch the unrated version.

A bunch of co-workers can't wait until end of the business day so they can sneak some lovely strippers (Julie Strain included) into their office building for a pal's bachelor party. The issue is Psycho Cop (Bobby Ray Shafer) has overheard their plans being discussed earlier at a donut shop and he has his own idea for how the night will go that isn't quite as fun or sexy.

If you can get past the wacky idea of a bachelor party in an office highrise you'll find the setting is more in line for a bunch of killing. The first film had a house in the middle of rural nowhere. 'Psycho Cop Returns' still features an over-the-top performance from Shafer and one of the office guys acting is horrible. However the blood and boobs help the predictable story from ever getting too annoying.

Bring on Psycho Cop 3!

[nickdominick · 10/10 · 23 October 2000]

Psycho Cop 2 is one of the best movies I've ever seen. No joke! I have never seen a better bad guy than Officer Joe Vickers. I haven't seen the first one yet but after seeing this one I'm dying to watch it. Like I said, BRING ON PSYCHO COP 3!!!!!!

Way Better than Rifkin's "Detroit Rock City".

[blackxmas · 6/10 · 26 October 2000]

Adam Rifkin should not have used his 'Rif Coogan' pseudonym on PSYCHO COP 2. If he thinks a supposed A-list release like the unfortunately boring DETROIT ROCK CITY is something to be proud of, he needs to revert back to the mindset he was in while making this fun fest. After a nifty title sequence, PSYCHO COP 2 settles in to tell the tale of an after hours bachelor party at an office building. Various people die when the PSYCHO COP shows up and Julie Strain runs around in chaps. That's the plot.

Now the acting, while amateurish, gains your acceptance because the actors are naturally appealing. The script is fast, funny and never pretends to be something it's not. Sometimes the one liners are groaners but you seem to let it go, because the film's vibe is inviting you to come along, not holding you in contempt for watching this kind of picture. The only problem is all the gore effects have been excised to secure an R rating. The cuts are jumpy and ragged during those deletions and the after effects are too quickly shown. If there could possibly be a director's cut, PSYCHO COP 2 could be a guilty pleasure classic for us horror fans. So listen up, Rifkin! Make it happen. People actually like this film. I'm proud to say I do.

reaaaaallllll bad....

[rutt13-1 · 3/10 · 24 October 2001]

OK, I'm the guy who counts "Rock N' Roll Nightmare" amongst my fave films of all time. I laughed my a$$ off at "The Coroner," and "New Year's Evil." I've seen just about everything there is in the bad-horror genre. This is a horrible, completely unfunny movie. It's gory, I guess, but aside from the gorgeous Barbara Niven (I'm amazed-she's been in other stuff!)and some sleazy stuff, it's a total waste--however it's a heck of a lot better than "Psycho Cop 1!"

pretty funny

[dx4lifexpac · 28 July 2000]

the name says it all Psycho cop, what kind of horror film do you think you are in for? yeah the movie for the most part is bad but its pretty damn funny at the same time. this is far from a classic but in its own way it is a classic. there are some really good one liners. i give psycho cop 2 5/10

The cop from Hell is back

[Tics · 2/10 · 26 January 1999]

In the opening scenes you can see the inside of the Psycho Cop's squad car with pieces of human remains and blood. I guess it took some effort to do all that for the film and it's that, that makes this movie so very disappointing. Because there have been so much work on it and the result is everything else but good.

The movie is about this Cop Joe Wicker who also is a Psycho Cop. As he eats at a coffeeshop he overhears two guys that is having a party at their work after closing time. They are going to bring strippers and have a party. Officer Wicker follows them to their work because he sees the guys party as breaking the law and therefore when night comes he begins to kill them of one by one by one. And to every murder he has a oneliner. In the end when the Psycho Cop is supposed to die he just goes on and on without stopping which makes the whole thing very annoying. The only thing the makers of this film has tried is to do a cover on the great Maniac Cop and they have failed big time.

So yeah...Psycho Cop is back

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 13 October 2019]

After a day of cop related slashers, it's kind of nice to know that I'm finally winding down with the final film - 1992's Adam Rifkin-directed Psycho Cop Returns. Yes, the same Adam Rifkin that wrote and directed The Dark Backward, as well as being the writer for Small Soldiers, Mouse Hunt and Underdog. He also directed the KISS-centric Detroit Rock City.

Writer Dan Povenmire was offered the chance to direct the film, but as this would require him to quit his job on The Simpsons. Therefore, he declined the opportunity.

Officer Joe Vickers - again played by Robert R. Shafer - is continuing his series of murders for Satan. This time, he's pretty much going Die Hard on a drug-fuelled office bachelor party.

This is one of the few slashers you'll see where one of the victims ended up winning the Academy Award afterward. But Nick Vallelonga, who plays Michael, co-wrote and produced Green Book.

To balance that out, the ladies of the film are played by the always dependable Julie Strain (pretty much every late Andy Sidaris movie, but let's go with Return to Savage Beach), Melanie Good, Maureen Flaherty and Carol Cummings, billed here under her non-adult stage name Kimberly Spies. The two go-go dancers are Brittany Ashland (adult actress Tanya Rivers) and Sara Lee Froton, whose only other credit is the deranged slasher Skinner. They were both discovered by the director at an actual bachelor party. And the host of that party? Charlie Sheen.

John Paxton, the father of actor Bill Paxton, also shows up as Mr. Stonecipher, the boss of this office building that's being used for sexual and drug-addled hijinks.

Just like the first film in this series, you have the right to remain silent during it, as the humor and gore may just not be your cup of tea. Or you might totally love it. The jury, as they say, is out.

Stupid unrealistic, but fun

[jaonlewis · 4/10 · 10 July 2018]

Love this film so much since the day of its release, as the original it's mixed of comedy and blood and fun, whis they made a this one What a shame!!!

Barks of Laughter

[paul_d_day · 7/10 · 28 October 2012]

I watched this immediately after the original Psycho Cop and, wow, what a difference a little self-awareness makes! The original incompetently plodded through horrible writing, acting (with the exception of Shafer)and pretty much anything else you could screw up in a movie. For the sequel, they watched the original, expanded on the strengths and actively ridiculed the weaknesses. I almost hate to call Shafer's performance "brilliant" but there it is. Another actor would play the role just for laughs, but Shafer, after delivering a punchline, keeps the character's cheerful psychotic complexity. Did I really write that?

This is just a fun, fun film that does a great job treading the line between the "THIS IS A COMEDY HORROR MOVIE ABOUT BAD COMEDY HORROR MOVIES" and just an enjoyable slasher film.

Entertaining cop maniac horror movie!!!

[cool_cool_1 · 7/10 · 3 April 2006]

Psycho Cop Returns (1993) is a movie that entertained me, very low budget and very poor acting, but i found it to be pretty fun!!!! Bobby Ray Shaffer once again plays the "psycho cop" officer Vickers, who gatecrashes an office party, the party is filled with dorky young men and strippers!! Psycho Cop wants to kill them all off one by one and stalks and slashes his way through the party, but can anyone stop him before everyone is dead?? Shaffer is great fun as the "Psycho Cop" and comes out with loads of funny one liners during his killing spree!! Like i said before, this was all good fun and kept me entertained for the 85 minute duration, there's some gore, some hot sex and plenty of sexy women on show, i haven't seen the 1st Psycho cop movie but i've heard it's not as fun or gory as this one!! I rate this movie 7/10, recommended for fans of the Maniac cop series!!

You have a right to enjoy this movie!

[snick725 · 10/10 · 18 February 2008]

Psycho Cop Returns is a ridiculously hysterical, spectacularly bad, and above all thoroughly bad movie.

It would seem that a group of people with nothing better to do hired a thirteen year old to write a script, then broke into an office building and filmed the entire movie in sequence in one night.

Yet, let me be the first to say that the end result is nothing short of a miracle. The last twenty minutes are a tour de force, and throughout the movie the script increasingly becomes more and more ridiculous and funny. I was laughing so hard I couldn't believe it.

Rent this movie if you are ready for the time of your life!

B-Budget at it's best

[boondocksaint20 · 6/10 · 9 July 2001]

Okay, for those who believe this movie is cheap, I totally agree. But, this is one of those films where the filmmakers are not taking themselves or their script seriously, on purpose! Psycho Cop and Psycho Cop 2 are excellent movies under the influence of alcohol, especially when things have calmed down. I love this movie b\c it is so easy to make fun of, thanks to the cheesy editing and God-awful, but hilarious one-liners. Officer Joe Vickers is simply a great villain, not for his intimidation or acting prowess, but b\c he looks like an insane asylum escapee. Gotta love when he reads the dead guy his right b\c, "even though it's extremely strange b\c [he's] dead!" I recommend this movie to those out there who can lighten up and enjoy a movie for pure enjoyment and not it's big budget or list of high rate actors. 6/10.

Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap, gimme more.....enlighten the world

[Heeling · 24 December 2002]

This film is magnificent! No it's not, it's crap!

It's both! see it! It's so boring and bad it'll blow you away!!

I hate to kick a man when he's dead......

[FlashCallahan · 6/10 · 26 October 2022]

A group of office workers decide to have a party in the office building. Among other things, they have some drugs there.

Their conversation on the subject is overheard by officer Joe Vickers, which is rather unfortunate for them, since Joe Vickers is a psycho policeman (I think he saw Maniac Cop once).

Even more unfortunate is the fact that Vickers is also an undead psychotic satanist, and instead of arresting them, he will make sure that nobody leaves the party alive...

I never knew that we needed a Maniac Cop rip off, but we did, and released in the same year that Matt Cordel was in his last film. Having never seen the original of this movie, I can say that it it took a while to start, it looked cheap, but from the moment Vickers goes on his killing spree, it turns from a dire movie into a movie that turns out to be more fun than it has the right to be.

The acting is terrible from all,concerned, and the makers know this, so they get a lot of strippers in on the action, and focus on this, whilst Vickers is prepping up his one liners and finding people to try them out on.

It's all predictable stuff, and I didn't know until after this film that Vickers was supposed to be undead. Yes he falls down an elevator shaft, but so what? This is a horror film, so all bets are off. I mean, John Wick fell off a roof and survived, so why not Joe Vickers, and why not team Vickers up with Wick and make a film called Joe and John, could be a winner.

But other than that nonsense, this is a lot of fun nonsense, very misogynistic in its portrayal of the female characters, and to be fair, most of the male characters are a downright idiotic too, putting them on a par, thus, making Vickers the most likeable character in the whole film.

Shame there wasn't a third....