The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched

The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched Mar 19, 2021 9:22:00 GMT Dramatic Look Gopher and lostinlimbo like this

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Post by stefancrosscoe on Mar 19, 2021 9:22:00 GMT

Mar 19, 2021 2:31:58 GMT Dramatic Look Gopher said:

Psycho Cop (1989)

A mentally unstable police officer, who worships the Devil, stalks a group of college students vacationing in a house in the woods.

Not much to recommend this cliched slasher which of course does bare a resemblance to the much better Maniac Cop, and it even rips off some scenes. But unlike Matt Cordell, the Psycho Cop talks and makes wise cracks when he does his killing. Some neat ideas and good direction, but lame dialogue and wooden acting keep this at the level of mediocrity.

I really wanted to love this, as I remember having heard about through the old Commandofans forum, or ManiacCopfans forum back in the day, and it seemed to have quite the following there, but when I finally managed to pick up a decent price (still ridiculously overpriced, that is

) DVD copy back in 2012, it ended up with me being screwed over, as it was not just pricy as hell, but also cut to pieces, or so I learned afterwards.

The film was kind of boring, little that I actually remembered from that one time watch, but last summer I saw the sequel (believe it or not, they made another one) and I guess it was mostly the same crew who did one of those later Sorority Massacre/House sequels (was it Jim Wynorski?) and I actually enjoyed the ridiculous cheese that was Psycho Cop Returns, as it was just so much more fast paced and over the top.