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The Hidden
Why this pick
Its lean, late-’80s police-thriller engine pairs a relentless body-hopping killer with nocturnal Los Angeles grime, sustaining the same pulpy paranoia and escalating action-horror momentum.
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MOVIE1988 1h 25m USA
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Dead Heat
Why this pick
A similarly exuberant 1988 hybrid of cop-movie swagger, undead horror, practical effects, and pitch-black comic-book energy, with a brisk B-movie pace.
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The First Power
Why this pick
This supernatural cop-versus-killer thriller shares Maniac Cop’s unnerving collision of police authority, urban danger, and an apparently unstoppable murderer.
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The Ambulance
Why this pick
Larry Cohen turns another trusted New York emergency institution into a menace, delivering conspiratorial city paranoia, oddball suspense, and colourful exploitation-movie invention.
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Vice Squad
Why this pick
For the grimy nocturnal-city side of Maniac Cop: a relentless predator, vulnerable people navigating hostile streets, and tense, unsentimental urban pursuit.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Richard Roundtree
Commissioner Pike
William Smith
Captain Ripley
Sheree North
Sally Noland
Lou Bonacki
Detective Lovejoy
Victoria Catlin
Ellen Forrest
James Dixon
Clancy
Corey Michael Eubanks
Bremmer
John F. Goff
Jack's Lawyer