I'm not exactly sure why this one gets so much love from every horror fan out there or how in the hell it got 2 sequels. It does have a really good cast including Bruce Campbell, Tom Atkins, William Smith, Richard 'SHAFT' Roundtree and of course big-chinned Robert Z'Dar in the title role. Everyone of these actors has been in way better movies than this though. I guess on the positive side it's a horror movie from the late 80s that isn't full of jokes but that's about it.
You basically get a slasher movie where the twist is it's guy in a cop uniform doing all the killing. Is he a zombie? How does he have super-powers? Why is he killing innocent people? How did director William Lustig go from making something as amazing as MANIAC to this predictable crap? Well if you watch the movie none of these questions are really answered very well. Maybe one of the sequels clears things up. I'm not really curious enough to find out.
There was supposed to be an HBO series that's a "re-imagining" of this film series directed by Nicholas Winding Refn but apparently that hasn't materialized yet. I would imagine with all the cop-hating going on currently it would quite the eye-candy for all you trendy political types.
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