Psycho Cop
Director: Wallace Potts
Writer: Wallace Potts
Starring: Robert R. Shafer and Jeff Qualle
Body Count: 9
Review: I saw the sequel to this film a few years back when I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I swore to myself that I would never revisit the land of Psycho Cop again.
Unfortunately, I was wrong. I came across this first film, one I had never seen, in a movie sale, and figured, bunch of kids getting slaughtered, I can't go wrong. Well, the premise is right on: Six friends at a weekend getaway cottage get stalked and murdered by a...well, psycho cop. But the payoff, the delivery of this film....it's just not there.
Don't get me wrong, this was a hard period to make a good slasher movie in. We're talking the late 80s, when even the giants of the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm St. series were starting to lose some box-office, but even given the fact that the genre had started to lose some steam doesn't make up for the shear lack of anything good in Psycho Cop.
There's little-to-no blood, some really really horrible acting (the worst I've seen in a while), and a worthless killer that has about the worst "cinematic chemistry and charisma" I've ever seen. Freddy is funny. Jason is like an old friend. Michael Myers has class. Psycho Cop....well, sucks.
