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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. He was the glue that held everything together, without him the movie's plot almost seemed incoherent and moronic. And talk about screen presence, no definition is high enough to do the character justice. Oh caretaker, you were truly a God amongst men, nobody could hold an axe for vague reasons like you could. 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". He just doesn't have material in this movie. "Psycho Cop" is not quite funny and not quite scary either, sort of a failed slasher pastiche.

I have seen many an abominable slasher teenkill body count film in my lifetime, so it's saying a lot that this hideously lame'n'tame loser qualifies as perhaps the worst slice'n'dice stinker I have ever had the grace misfortune to suffer through. 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 ... NOT!). Writer/director Wallace Potts does a simply super job of messing this putrid porker up big time: we've got nil suspense, painfully lurching pacing, grating false scares (which include the ever-popular and irritating cat jumping out of a cupboard and startling the hell out of someone phony jolt), obnoxiously atrocious acting, bloodless and moronic murders (a nightstick down the throat gag is especially execrable), no gratuitous sex or nudity to speak of, the flipped-out flatfoot cracks these horribly witless sub-Freddy Kruger one-liners every time he kills someone, and, naturally, there's an awesomely awful, groan-inducing and dissatisfying "he ain't dead yet" sequel set-up ending (sadly enough, said "nobody asked for it" sequel was actually made, which only goes to show you can't keep either a bad loony fuzzball or even worse fright film series down). Mark ("Blue Monkey," "Deep Space") Williams did the mild, middling gore f/x. 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.

If you haven't seen this movie then, boy are you in for a treat. This film is an absolute classic and should be viewed as soon as possible.From start to finish this film gives a master-class in how to build suspense and burst it with perfectly judged moments of comic relief. 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. Enjoy.

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. Anyway, it has its moments.