Maniac Cop

Junkfood Cinema

Brian Salisbury

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure, Arts, Hobbies

4.6 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Maniac Cop is true cult gem if ever there were one and we explain how not only is it an oddly prescient slasher flick, but also how when paired with its sequel, it draws interesting comparisons to the first two Godfather films.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The This is junk food cinema.
0:45.4	Hi, this is Dick Miller.
0:52.1	You're listening to Junk Food Cinema on Film School Rejects.
0:56.9	Who are these guys?
1:17.8	Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of junk food cinema here on film school rejects.com.
1:22.7	This is, of course, the weekly cult and exploitation film cast that is so good, it just has to be fattening.
1:26.7	I am your host, Brian Salisbury, and joining me, as always, is my friend and co-host.
1:27.7	He's a novelist.
1:32.9	He's a screenwriter. He is Lieutenant of Megaforce, Mr. C. Robert Cargill. Yes.
1:42.1	How are things? Well, great. We are doing an epic two-parter. Our first epic two-parter.
1:47.3	Yes. Like, we have, we have done, you know, theme months before.
1:53.0	And we've recorded, you know, several episodes at a time, but never about the same series like this.
1:54.1	Oh, this is a franchise so nice.
1:55.7	We decide to visit it twice in two weeks.
1:58.8	Yeah.
1:59.1	Well, I mean, the thing is, and here is what's really fascinating about this series,
2:05.3	is if you were to make a junk food cinema League of Super Friends, like if you were to sit
2:12.0	down and go, okay, I'm going to make a movie series with some of the greatest actors in the junk food
2:18.5	cinema pantheon, you would end up casting half of the league from these movies.
2:26.3	Oh, hell yes.
2:27.3	These are people, like, we're talking about a movie tonight that we've got one of the greatest detectives of the 80s.
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