Psycho Cop

Plot synopsis:
A pair of lost newlyweds stumble onto the site of a ritualistic murder, and are killed by Joe Vickers, a corrupt police officer who is also a Satanist.
The next day, three couples travel to a secluded mansion that they have rented, and are given a tour by the property's caretaker, who is later murdered by Vickers. Upon noticing the caretaker's disappearance, the couples go looking for him, and encounter Vickers, who reassures them by claiming that the caretaker had an accident, and is now recovering in the hospital. That night, Zack leaves to get beer, and is slain by Vickers.
Vickers proceeds to butcher Eric, Julie, and Sarah. Doug and Laura realize that Vickers is the culprit, and are chased into the forest, where they are found by a pair of policemen, Chris and Bradley. Before being killed by Vickers, the officers reveal that he is really Gary Henley, a discharged psychiatric patient who has somehow infiltrated the California Police Department.
Laura is pursued by Vickers to a clearing containing the crucified bodies of Zack, Julie, Eric, and Sarah. Laura shoots Vickers with his own sidearm, but he is unaffected, only being felled when he has a sharp log thrown through him by Doug. Emergency services greet Laura and Doug at the mansion as Vickers recovers, and a newscast announces that further evidence indicates that he is actually an escaped psychopathic serial killer named Ted Warnicky.

Tags: cult, murder

Review:
I prefer this movie over Manic Cop by Bill Lustig.Overall, a night of laughter and comments like "I cant believe I'm watching this" will fill your living room as you watch this film.Score: 10 out of 10 -- NOTE: a 6 pack should be consumed before and an additional 6 pack should be consumed during..
If you thought the teens in those Friday the 13th flicks were stupid, you've not seen anything until you see Psycho Cop.
The dialogue is awesome, for instance: "I felt someone was watching me, but it turned out to be a deer." I love this movie!
I barely ever get to say this when it comes to horror movies, but the sequel is a lot better.
Don't get me wrong, "Psycho Cop" has its moments, but obviously it sinks like a brick after the caretaker meets his demise.
Sadly when you take this ingenious character out of the equation, you're stuck with the kind of average slasher movie people were already sick of back in 1989.
Cars never start, phones never work, people keep wandering of into the woods for stupid reasons, dead killers are never as dead as they look, every teen is 35 years old, it's that kind of movie and very little more.
Officer Joe Vickers is a pretty amusing psychopath, but I think he's much better in "Psycho Cop Returns".
"Psycho Cop" is not quite funny and not quite scary either, sort of a failed slasher pastiche..
the acting is terrible, the victims are unbelievably (and hilariously) stupid, and the psycho cop in question gets to utter some of the funniest lines, while laughing, grinning & murdering like a true nutcase!
I think it has to be watched more than once to be fully appreciated.It has some good ideas but how the hell the cop catches up to people when he is walking and they are running or even in a car i don't know.Overall worth a watch and a laugh..
This is definately the best B horror movie of all time and if you can find it somewhere, I definately recommend renting it..
The quality of acting is extremely high and stands up on repeated viewing.This movie is a must-see for anyone who is a fan of classic thrillers, such as, "Night of the Hunter", and indeed the performance of 'psycho cop', Bobby Ray Shaffer, recalls that of Robert Mitchum in the above movie.
But even this sketchy characterization is scarcely given any attention in the movie.Anyone looking for a Psycho Cop would be better off watching the cop in Psycho, or the T2- as-cop in Terminator 2, or watching Maniac Cop and its sequels.
Psycho Cop 2 surprisingly is a lot better, though..
Another slasher film trying to cash in on the success of Maniac Cop..
A devil worshipping police officer follows a group of college students to a vacation home, where he proceeds to murder them.Yet another teen slasher flick from the 80's, lesser known than most, with all of the typical elements of the genre in place, except for nudity and sexual situations.
It is worse acted than most though, and features one of the most inept performances in film history by Bobby Ray Shafer.
Many horror fans out there have seen the cable staple PSYCHO COP 2 and probably wondered about the existence of the relatively obscure original.
A psychotic, Satan-worshipping policeman (Bobby Ray Shafer), who walks like a robot (and gives a performance to match) does most of them in.
I really like this movie, and it is way better than the sequel.
What great cheese this movie has, kids paranoid as hell and a satan worshipper/ stand-up comedian/ psycho cop.
It seems like the writer/director (Wallace Potts) thought of the idea, wrote it, and filmed it all in the same weekend.
Scenes magically switch from day to night, cans of soup go missing and cause more alarm than friends going missing, and - although there's no nudity - characters bathe together for unknown reasons.The killings themselves aren't all that impressive, and the endless one-liners from Psycho Cop get pretty annoying, but I still enjoyed watching events play out in this film.
Bobby Ray Shaefer fully embraces his character, and there's nothing like watching a Satan-worshipping, lunatic Psycho Cop serial killer who truly enjoys his work.
This is kind of a poor man's Maniac Cop but it is bad for all the right reasons if you like B movies.Overall rating: 6 out of 10..
A low budget Maniac Cop rip off that is barely passable, made by people who obviously had no idea how to make a horror movie.
Contains crappy kills, paranoid teens, and a killer who spits out one liners all while acting as wooden as a post.
The psycho cop himself is a work of art, as he is witty, has a death stare, and finds imaginative ways of killing his hapless victims.
The effects are appropriate, there is a lot of blood, nicely filmed nudity, and the music is sticky and gloomy in a way that it makes your heart go faster for no reason at all.
I wish they would make a third release of this movie, since it is a definite improvement over the first Psycho Cop flick..
Bobby Ray Shafer stars as Officer Joe Vickers, but no way was he menacing when he decided to open his mouth to blab off some weak one- liner.
What happens is that of a usual slasher outing, with some young adults heading to a remote country resort for some fun, but actually finding them selves trying to stay alive as a devil-worshiping police officer picks them off one by one.
I really like this slasher flick, the cast is atractive, the murders are graphic enough, there are a lot of screams, girls in bikinis, some suspenseful scenes, especially when one of the girls is left alone in the house after the other run out to help a friend getting killed by the psycho cop.
Mildly Entertaining But Quite Bad. Psycho Cop (1989) * 1/2 (out of 4) A group of college students decide to head out into the middle of nowhere so that they can drink beer and have fun.
Shafer) who likes murdering people.PSYCHO COP is a mildly amusing horror film that has a few fun moments but for the most part this film falls apart rather quickly for a number of reasons.
It's interesting that the title would be PSYCHO COP since William Lustig's MANIAC COP had just recently made a name for itself but the two share very little in common outside of the titles and the type of killer.As far as this film goes, it follows the SLASHER 101 handbook rather closely as we've got the annoying teens going out in the middle of nowhere and of course they are given countless warnings about what's going on and yet they overlook them all.
The death scenes are mildly entertaining as a couple of them have some bloodshed but there's no question that the low-budget shows.The cast offers up mainly bad to forgettable performances but that's to be expected in a film like this.
Shafer (working under the name Bobby Ray Shafer) is good in the role of the killer but there's no question that the screenplay gives him some really bad lines.
Unbelievably a PSYCHO COP RETURNS follows, and I say unbelievably because this is an absolutely awful film in every respect, one of the cheesiest and worst slasher flicks I've sat through.Watching this as an unintentional comedy works a little better and is probably the only way you're going to manage it from beginning to end.
What follows is a string of death scenes accompanied by cheesy gore effects and even cheesier one liners from the titular bad guy.It hurts to say how bad Bobby Ray Schafer's acting is as the grinning villain; we're talking TROLL 2 level of badness here, sheer over-the-top, ham-fisted ineptitude.
Still, PSYCHO COP is largely inoffensive, and fans of horror B-movies might find it a hoot; it's a lot funnier than many intentional comedies out there..
I was expecting this flick to be really fun, as it started off that way, but after awhile, most of the characters got really, really paranoid.
Most people can enjoy this flick b\c they know ITS OKAY to watch a cheesy movie and enjoy it.
I can't stand it when people only watch movies with gargantuan budgets, 'top rate actors' and what not.
Psycho Cop's one liners are absolutely hilarious, especially when the caretaker finally buys it.
Bobby Ray Shafer is by no means a high caliber actor, but he does pull the demented psycho cop from hell off very well, especially with those twisted eyes of his and laugh out loud ridiculous but effective manical laugh of his.
A satin worshipping psycho cop follows a bunch of drunken teens to a vacation house.
The acting is as bad as it gets, there is no sense of logic what so ever, and the director seems to only know how to zoom in and out, yet this film is still very entertaining and really delivers a high body count, some gruesome murders, and a hot looking cast.
The plot = A cop whose into devil worshipping, decides to go out on a killing spree, he comes across a group of teens on they're way to cabin in the woods for the weekend, so he decides to follow them and kill them off one by one.Okay I knew off hand that this would be a cheesy routine slasher flick and a pretty bad one, I watched the trailers so I went into this movie not expecting much anyway, but for some reason I was still drawn to it and for some sort of strange reason I actually kind of liked it.
This movie was obviously a cash in movie, because of the much better Maniac Cop and this is in no way even compares it has The acting is absolutely dire, the script is excruciatingly inept, shamelessly rehashing every horror movie cliché in the book – in particular the often improvised dialogue is atrocious.
The one thing that kind of saves this movie is Psycho Cop himself (Bobby Ray Shafer), okay it was a badly acted performance, but you can he had fun with it with his awful one liners, but at least he had a smile on his face and that aspect I actually liked and he moves around like he's got a stick up his butt and the teen cast are awful even the main heroine whose incredibly dull, to be frank he should have killed them all off a lot sooner.All in all not a movie I strongly recommend but if you're into bad slashers then I suggest this and most probably the sequel..
While I hesitate to give Psycho Cop a 10 out of 10 because if I'm being honest, it's by no means perfect (or a 'classic' movie but what the hell does that mean these days anyway.
Apparently The Matrix is a classic, and that movie sucks), I haven't had this much fun watching a B-horror flick in a long long time.
The joy of this movie is that instead of being a laughably bad horror that's hysterical because it's so cheesy, it's a laughably bad horror poking fun at itself for being laughably bad and having a damn good time being laughably bad.
As will you, watching Psycho Cop Joe Vickers chuckle his way through a veritable army of victims with axe, billy club and even in one instance, a car.It isn't big, it isn't clever (you want clever, check out Maniac Cop instead, it's just as cool but much more serious) but it's damn funny.
I laughed all 90 minutes, and for once not because of spurts of comedy gore, just because of the pure comedy value.If you're a pretentious jerk go watch Saw a fortieth time, but if you like a good slasher and don't mind a hefty dose of broad stupid humour (Classic segment: Caretaker:'No!
The film industry was booming, and in order for movies like Jaws to do good, movies like Psycho Cop had to be made.This movie is devoid of any thread of invested time.
It seems like the writer/director (Wallace Potts) thought of the idea, wrote it, and filmed it all in the same weekend.For this reason, it is hilarious!
Scenes magically switch from day to night, cans of soup go missing and cause more alarm than friends going missing, and - although there's no nudity - characters bathe together for unknown reasons.The killer is a cop who goes psycho - this shown in the opening sequence by him washing his hands in blood, presumably that of the innocent - and one by one he slaughters all of the stereotypical teens who 'just want to party'.Except for two.
I'm sorry, but not even adrenaline has the ability to make a blunt log go THROUGH a person.Psycho Cop has the bleuest of cheesy lines.
To this, crazy old Officer Joe Vickers replies "but it is" and heaves down on the groundskeeper's face...the brave groundskeeper doesn't even let out a scream.HOWEVER, back at the cabin, the teens are listening to music, and the one with HEADPHONES ON takes them off and says, "I think I just heard someone scream." I guess she was watching another version of the movie, in which they noticed OBVIOUS CONTINUITY ERRORS and fixed them.I could write a novel on the Psycho Cop experience, but I'd rather if you watched it with your loved ones and made fun of it yourself.
Hopefull you might one day see my movie and think, "Wow, this is as bad as Psycho Cop.".
The physco cop himself is just plain dull and when he does catch people he kills them in a particularly quick and boring manner.
Psycho Cop. Distributor: Southgate Entertainment Plot: Six college students take a weekend trip to a mansion in the woods.
Slowly their party becomes a terrifying game of survival...and just as they think their prayers have been answered, a killer cop has responded to their calls for help.Audio/Video: Excellent picture quality.Extras: Nothing extra on the tape.Final thoughts: This movie has rotten acting, horrible music, atrocious directing...but somehow I always get drawn into the cheesiness of it.
Either way, if you can find this for less then a dollar then buy it, otherwise watch Maniac Cop which is 100 times better than this, or get Psycho Cop 2.
This low-budget slasher flick is particularly tame and takes far too long to kick in,but it is somewhat likeable.A satanic cop Joe Vickers stalks a group of teens.He kills them one by one until only two are left to deal with the fiend.The acting is awful,the script is weak,but that's why this movie is so fun to watch.The psycho cop from hell Joe Vickers is one of the funniest killers ever.He mostly just laughs and shoots of one-liners with robot-like proficiency and tries to sound sadistic through some of the worst dialogue ever captured to the film.Absolutely no suspense,incredibly cheesy special effects,minimal pace-if you love trash horror movies,you'll enjoy "Psycho Cop".The gore level is quite low,but there are some nice killings for example one guy gets an axe in his skull.No nudity or sex in this one,if you want some T&A check out "Psycho Cop Returns",which is also more gory and sadistic.Overall,"Psycho Cop" is a thoroughly enjoyable entry in the teen hack-'em-up cycle,and while it isn't likely to win any awards,horror fans should be pleased..
While the gang pooh-poohs their consistent pleas towards leaving the house, psycho-cop Joe Vickers(Bobby Ray Shafer)lurks in various places on the premises, awaiting the right times to strike.
Like other killers in these kinds of movies, Shafer seems to move about the woods, able to pop up now matter where the kids run.
A demented Devil-worshiping Los Angeles police officer (horribly overplayed to the annoyingly hammy hilt by the dorky, singularly unmenacing Bobby Ray Shafer) stalks and bumps off six wholly unlikeable, peevish, beer-swilling jerk teens partying their empty heads off in some typically creepy abandoned house located deep in the remote woods (boy, that's a fresh and novel premise for a horror film ...
If you ever happen to catch "Psycho Cop" in your rear-view mirror or God forbid come across a copy of it for rent at your local mom'n'pop video rental outlet, by all means make as much distance as you can from both this chortling, insufferable maniacal a**hole and his deplorable, no-account slasher flick series..
I just finished watching this movie and wow...I'm amazed how bad it was, it must be seen to be believed.
Like this dialogue, paraphrased from memory:"What happened to the caretaker?""Just because you think something bad happened, doesn't really mean it happened.
It's so shallow, it's so lazy..."What happened to the beer?""I don't know what happened to the beer.""Just because there's no beer doesn't mean something bad happened.""You're being paranoid.""No I'm not, I'm not being paranoid."WE GET IT.That's the whole movie's dialogue dynamics.
It's pointless, it says nothing, there was no reason for this movie to be made.
I truly adore all 3 "Maniac Cop" movies, that's why I watched this one.
I went into this expecting some cheesy Maniac Cop knockoff.
Vickers is a devil worshiping cop who's out for blood.
Psycho Cop was also a bit more formulaic.
The typical 80's horror movies, as a general rule, included a bunch of horny young people at a camp site or a house, always out in the woods.
Easy targets for a killer.Some of the more annoying parts of this flick are the overuse of the word paranoid (in all its forms), the many references to the caretaker (Vickers' first victim), and the highly unlikely way Vickers met his demise.On the whole, I found the movie quite enjoyable in a "so bad it's good" kind of way.