Maniac Cop Page #4

Synopsis: Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York City by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and City Hall attempts a cover-up, Frank McCrae heads the investigation. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself under arrest as the chief suspect, having been the victim of a set-up by the real killer and a mysterious woman phone-caller. Forrest, his girlfriend Theresa, and McCrae set out to solve the puzzle before the Maniac Cop can strike again.
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Director(s): William Lustig
Production: Trans World Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
1988
85 min
401 Views


chief medical examiner

of sing sing, Doctor Gruber.

Now why don't...

...why you continue this

questioning for a while alone?

Rough him up a little bit.

Thanks.

Officer Mallory will continue

the interrogation till I get back.

Right.

He knows, He knows.

He knows. He knows you're here.

He knows that

I'm no good to him anymore!

He knows, He knows, He knows.

He knows.

He knows...

He is here!

He is here!

Stop it!

Lean on me. Come on,

walk this way, come on.

I'm not afraid. But to have him kill

me when I still love him so much.

Why doesn't anybody answer?

Put her down, Cordell!

Put her down!

Son of a b*tch!

No, no, no, stay there.

Hey, what's the matter with you?

Didn't you hear the buzzer?

What, you deaf?

What are you doing?

I've got to get you out of this building.

Come on.

What about you? If they see you

with that gun, you gonna get shot.

Don't worry about me.

We gotta to find Mc Crae.

How did you get here?

With Mc Crae.

His car is still outside.

Okay, here is the deal. Get in and wait.

If we're not out in five minutes,

hot wire it, haul ass out of here.

You got it?

-Got it.

-Okay go!

Keep your hands where

I can see them. Back up against the wall.

Hold on, I didn't do any of this.

You broke out of your cell.

You killed them all.

Wasn't me.

Was somebody else.

Shut up!

He's still here.

You're letting him get away.

Nobody's getting away.

I'm calling for backups.

-Don't even try.

-Ok, ok!

Listen!

-I didn't do any of this.

-Sure you didn't.

Put your guns over there.

Alright, on your face!

Both you!

-We may've gone after him.

-You heard him, he didn't do it.

Teresa, let's go.

Keeping McCrae's appointment

in sing sing.

Sure, walk into a prison what happens,

police force are out looking for you.

-You're a brave man.

-No, not brave, scared shitless.

Unless we can prove that in Cordell

is still alive, its gonna be my ass.

Step over there, please.

Your left.

Yes, Can I help you?

Yeah, we better here in meeting with your

Doctor Grubber, We're a little early.

You got a name?

Mc Crae, Detective Frank Mc Crae.

Yeah, The Doctors office'

around back to your left.

-Alright, thank you.

-You're welcome.

You know Matt Cordell?

Not many like that.

I did the autopsy on him.

Look, the authorities knew this

something like that could happen to him.

Why didn't they prevent him?

He wouldn't allow it.

He refused to be in isolation.

Guess he...

...don't want admit

that he was afraid.

What do you do in a

case like that?

What do you mean?

When they're all cut up like that?

This is no ordinary

morticians home.

We're not into a cosmetic

approaches here.

When a prisoner dies,

it's not our job,

to make him look good

again for his family.

We just stitch up the parts.

and put them into

a wooden box,

and we bury him.

Is that what happened to

Matt Cordell?

I've look in my records.

Would you mind?

Most of them just go to

the potter's field.

These are those records.

-His body was claimed by a woman.

-May I see that?

We both know Miss Noland.

I think before this goes any further,

I'd like to see some identification

Detective Mc Crae, something

with your photograph on it?

Det. Lieutenant Mc Crae

died early this morning.

He was murdered.

Murdered by the same man

that killed over half a dozen people

at police headquarters

last night.

I haven't gotten to my

morning paper.

No wonder you know

all the lurid details.

If I had murdered a

bunch of officers,

the last place I'd come

is the penitentiary.

Don't bullshit us.

You know who did the killings.

How could I know?

Cordell, wasn't dead.

And then you saved him.

Answer me.

Look, he was a fine Detective.

He had a lot of friends.

Everyone knew...

...that if we put him back in the

prison community,

they just attack him again.

There was no way

he could survive.

So, when they brought him

up here, more dead than alive,

this policewoman convinced

me to do the decent thing.

Like remove him from prison

mortuary alive?

He wasn't exactly alive,

There was severe brain damage.

I'm certain he was legally dead.

I was telling the truth when

I signed that death certificate.

There's no way he could function

as a human being again.

Read the newspaper, Doc.

Get out of my office, Now!

You never came here.

I'm not going to pick up that phone.

This never happened.

There's no end to your decency,

Is there Doctor?

What did I do wrong?

You should have seen him on the

operating table, cut to pieces.

I know the system

screwed him.

The politicians, put him in prison

and the inmates did the rest.

And now you're trying to ruin

my life and my career.

We're not trying to

ruin anybody.

We just want to bury Mat Cordell

once and for all.

Get out of here.

Go away.

Here Doctor, put this on.

What are you talking about?

You know it's

St. Patrick's Day?

Hey, The Mayor and the Police

Commissioner will be there.

Yeah, along with five thousand cops.

I bet Cordell has loved walking in that

parade every year he was on the force.

Whatever he loved he hates now.

And so this years St Patrick's Day

parade continues on schedule,

despite speculation of the parade

may have been cancelled

due to fear of violence.

Authorities report scores

of death threats against the police,

plus threats of bombings

along the parade route.

But this has not deterred

a record crowd for

turning out for New York's

St Patrick's Day parade.

What a parade it is.

Public have rage on

the continued killings

by the so called maniac cop,

have brought many hostile New Yorkers

to New Yorks 5th avenue today.

Police security forces and the special

bomb squads are on full force.

As well as plaincloth detectives

were mixed into the crowd.

I can't walk in. They're gonna

shoot me on sight.

I'll do it.

Alright, but you gonna get

through to the commissioner.

I'm supposed to convince him these killings

are being committed by a dead man?

Commissioner pike was Chief of Police

when Cordell was sent to jail.

He's probably the one that

Cordell blames more than anybody else.

-Where you gonna be?

-I'm gonna be right here.

So he says, Commissioner said

that this is my wife.

Look who's just walked in.

Jack Forrest's girlfriend.

Come on, everybody outta here.

Alright, so where is

that son of a b*tch?

He's willing to give himself up.

After you listen.

So you're giving orders now.

I know who committed these murders.

So do we sweetheart,

its your boyfriend.

You are wrong.

Its a man named Matt Cordell.

A ghost.

Did you come up with this

lunatic idea up by yourself,

or are you on drugs?

It was Mc Crae's theory.

But we verified it.

Listen sweetheart, last night

before Mc Crae was murdered,

he called my house,

I wasn't there

I was at a charity event

but he was kind enough...

...to leave a message on my service.

Would you like to give a listen?

This is Frank McCrae.

I've got solid evidence this,

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Larry Cohen

Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen (born July 15, 1941) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as a B-Movie auteur of horror and science fiction films – often containing a police procedural element – during the 1970s and 1980s. He has since concentrated mainly on screenwriting including the Joel Schumacher thriller Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). In 2006 Cohen returned to the directing chair for Mick Garris' Masters of Horror TV series (2006); he directed the episode "Pick Me Up". more…

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