Video Killers - Episode 2: Maniac Cop and Beyond!

# Maniac Cop and Beyond!

Hello and thank you for coming back! Today, the Killers talk about the Maniac Cop series and ponder on the delights of the novelty, rap movie tie-in song craze.

Tom Atkins! Bruce Campbell & Robert Z'dar! (so much chin in one movie!)Robert Davi! Larry Cohen! MC Hammer! The Fat Boys!

Ok, enough with the hyperbole. Enjoy the show!

## First Off... We discuss what we watched this last week:

**Random Acts of Violence** (2019)

A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1925493/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Red Band Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvFk5-tvXrY&ab_channel=Shudder)
[Movie Poster](https://images.amcsvod.io/f49b152d9dfeb849_boxart.jpg?w=600&auto=format,compress)

*A pair of comic book writers begin to notice scary similarities between the character they created and horrific real-life events.*

**Vivarium** (2019)

CURRENTLY AIRING ON AMAZON PRIME

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8368406/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Trailer](https://youtu.be/U3Xy2x9NDrw)
[Movie Poster](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/mSXPtTsVXaTzWX93JiyKyL4w9DNJ5erGnienIzQHk5HFD1GrtLf_POSmDG8XlXlddjlwBTLmMvnvJTsUYlegljkq2U5_4ANOJYKzH9bc)

*A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.*

**Lovecraft Country** (2020)

HBO Original Series

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6905686/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4)
[Trailer](https://youtu.be/dvamPJp17Ds)
[Poster](http://www.impawards.com/tv/posters/lovecraft_country_ver2_xlg.jpg)

*The series is about a young black man who travels across the segregated 1950s United States in search of his missing father, learning of dark secrets plaguing a town on which famous horror writer H. P. Lovecraft supposedly based the location of many of his fictional tales.*

**The Vast of the Night**(2019)

CURRENTLY AIRING ON AMAZON PRIME

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6803046/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Trailer](https://youtu.be/ZEiwpCJqMM0)
[Movie Poster](http://www.impawards.com/2020/posters/vast_of_night_ver2.jpg)

*In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, young switchboard operator Fay and charismatic radio DJ Everett discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever.*

**The Sisterhood**(1988)

CIRIO SANTIAGO DISASTERPIECE / BAD MOVIE, FUN POSTER

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096114/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2)
[Trailer](https://youtu.be/mSjO45HSd0M)
[Movie Poster](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzQ2ZGYyMTctN2M4YS00ZjZhLTlmYTctOGM1YjA2MzAyNjZjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDUxNjc5NjY@._V1_.jpg)

*The year is 2021 AD. Women have been enslaved by a brutal army of men who survived the nuclear holocaust. Their only hope for freedom is in the hands of a nomadic band of fierce she-warriors: The Sisterhood.*

# KILLER COPS (An exploration of the Maniac Cop movies)

**Maniac Cop** (1988)


*A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.*

**Maniac Cop 2** (1990)


*A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.*

**Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence* (1992)


*A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and comes back from the dead to do his bidding.*

**Psycho Cop Returns**


Directed by [Adam Rifkin](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726472/?ref_=tt_ov_dr)as "Rif Coogan"

*Psychopath cop deci

# Maniac Cop and Beyond!

Hello and thank you for coming back! Today, the Killers talk about the Maniac Cop series and ponder on the delights of the novelty, rap movie tie-in song craze.

Tom Atkins! Bruce Campbell & Robert Z'dar! (so much chin in one movie!)Robert Davi! Larry Cohen! MC Hammer! The Fat Boys!

Ok, enough with the hyperbole. Enjoy the show!

## First Off... We discuss what we watched this last week:

**Random Acts of Violence** (2019)

A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1925493/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Red Band Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvFk5-tvXrY&ab_channel=Shudder)
[Movie Poster](https://images.amcsvod.io/f49b152d9dfeb849_boxart.jpg?w=600&auto=format,compress)

*A pair of comic book writers begin to notice scary similarities between the character they created and horrific real-life events.*

**Vivarium** (2019)

CURRENTLY AIRING ON AMAZON PRIME

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8368406/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Trailer](https://youtu.be/U3Xy2x9NDrw)
[Movie Poster](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/mSXPtTsVXaTzWX93JiyKyL4w9DNJ5erGnienIzQHk5HFD1GrtLf_POSmDG8XlXlddjlwBTLmMvnvJTsUYlegljkq2U5_4ANOJYKzH9bc)

*A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.*

**Lovecraft Country** (2020)

HBO Original Series

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6905686/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4)
[Trailer](https://youtu.be/dvamPJp17Ds)
[Poster](http://www.impawards.com/tv/posters/lovecraft_country_ver2_xlg.jpg)

*The series is about a young black man who travels across the segregated 1950s United States in search of his missing father, learning of dark secrets plaguing a town on which famous horror writer H. P. Lovecraft supposedly based the location of many of his fictional tales.*

**The Vast of the Night**(2019)

CURRENTLY AIRING ON AMAZON PRIME

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6803046/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Trailer](https://youtu.be/ZEiwpCJqMM0)
[Movie Poster](http://www.impawards.com/2020/posters/vast_of_night_ver2.jpg)

*In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, young switchboard operator Fay and charismatic radio DJ Everett discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever.*

**The Sisterhood**(1988)

CIRIO SANTIAGO DISASTERPIECE / BAD MOVIE, FUN POSTER

[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096114/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2)
[Trailer](https://youtu.be/mSjO45HSd0M)
[Movie Poster](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzQ2ZGYyMTctN2M4YS00ZjZhLTlmYTctOGM1YjA2MzAyNjZjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDUxNjc5NjY@._V1_.jpg)

*The year is 2021 AD. Women have been enslaved by a brutal army of men who survived the nuclear holocaust. Their only hope for freedom is in the hands of a nomadic band of fierce she-warriors: The Sisterhood.*

# KILLER COPS (An exploration of the Maniac Cop movies)

**Maniac Cop** (1988)


*A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.*

**Maniac Cop 2** (1990)


*A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.*

**Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence* (1992)


*A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and comes back from the dead to do his bidding.*

**Psycho Cop Returns**


Directed by [Adam Rifkin](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726472/?ref_=tt_ov_dr)as "Rif Coogan"

*Psychopath cop decides to kill everyone who he thinks has broken the law.*

**RoboCop**

##Movie Tie-In Rap Songs!##

[The Maniac Cop Rap](https://youtu.be/sbV6ubsDvTA)
[Same Song *used in Nothing But Trouble*](https://youtu.be/LSt6a0_pkzs)
[The Crypt Jam](https://youtu.be/kA4DNa9j4rw)
[Are You Ready for Freddy? *Nightmare on Elm Street 4*](https://youtu.be/f2XKsTbuUOo)
[The Addams Family Groove](https://youtu.be/jqQwzgixHAM)

## Stuff Mentioned on this Episode: ##

[The New Barbarians](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084424/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[The Hidden](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093185/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Drive](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Nothing But Trouble](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Flashdance](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085549/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

[Clarence Williams III](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929934/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm)
[Danny Trejo](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001803/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)
[Nicolas Winding Refn](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716347/?ref_=tt_ov_dr)
[Alan Smithee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee)
[Joe Spinell](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818874/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1)
[Ed Brubaker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Brubaker)