Psycho Cop Returns (1993)

User Rating:

2.8/10   

Director:

Adam Rifkin

Writer:

Dan Povenmire (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

A Bachelor Party You'll Never Forget!

Plot:

Psychopath cop decides to kill everyone who he thinks has broken the law.

Plot Keywords:

Reference To Maxwell House Coffee | Murder | Woman's Neck Broken | Topless | Role Reversal

Cast

Robert R. Shafer	...	Officer Joe Vickers (as Bobby Ray Shafer)
Barbara Niven	...	Sharon (as Barbara Lee Alexander)
Rod Sweitzer	...	Larry (as Roderick Darin)
Miles Dougal	...	Brian / Spongehead (as Miles David Dougal)
Nick Vallelonga	...	Mike
Dave Bean	...	Gary
John Paxton	...	Mr. Stonecipher
Julie Strain	...	Stephanie
Melanie Good	...	Cindy (as Alexandria Lakewood)
Priscilla Huckleberry	...	Lisa
Justin Carroll	...	Tony
Carol Cummings	...	Chloe (as Kimberly Spies)
Al Schuermann	...	Gus
David Andriole	...	Vinnie The Bartender
Adam Rifkin	...	Man with Video Camera

Also Known As:

Psycho Cop 2 (USA) (video box title)

Runtime:

80 min | Canada:85 min (uncut version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:R | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Company:

Film Nouveau

Trivia:

CAMEO: [David Andriole] The film's producer plays Vinnie the Bartender.

Quotes:

Officer Joe Vickers: I hate to kick a man when he's dead, they just don't put up much of a fight!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Look (2007)

I hate to kick a man when he's dead

(Some Spoilers) Black comedy about a crazed policeman out to enforce the law by crashing a bachelor party at the Stonecipher Building and massacring almost all those in attendance.

At the local donut shop Offcer Vickers, Robert R. Shafer, overhears office workers Larry & Brian, Rod Sweitzer & Milles Dougal, talk about a bachelor party that's to be held that evening at their office with booze and grass and semi-nude women being brought in for adult entertainment.

Vickers a law & order nut and a bit into Satanic practices and sacrifices decides to stop these impending breaches of the law, drinking and having sex on the job, before it happens and to punish those criminals who break it and the only way he knows how is with brutal and deadly force. In the Stonecipher Building everyone is ready and expecting to have a good time with Mr. Stonecipher,John Paxton, their boss being told that their staying over to catch up with their backlog of paperwork. Before you know it the local strippers are let into the building by the night watchman Gus, Al Schuerman, and the drinking and partying starts as office worker Gary, Dave Bean, is given his last fling as a bachelor before he ends up getting hooked. It turns out instead to be Gary's last day alive on earth.

Bloody and in some ways hilarious, with a number of sharp and witty one liners by Officer Vickers, horror flick with Vickers knocking off almost everyone at the party. Vickers starts with Gus who he put a pencil through his brain then works his way up the building finishing off everyone else but Brian & Sharon, Barbara Niven, who survived his rampage. As you would expect Vickers, like almost every villain in these types of films, has superhuman strength and endurance. No matter what happens to him like being pushed down an elevator shaft hit in the midsection ,full force, with an ax and almost having his head burned off with a lighted spray-can he just keeps on going as strong as ever in his crusade to enforce the law that he was sworn to uphold.

The movie has a scene in it that copies the infamous March 1991 Rodney King police beating with Vickers being beaten and kicked by a bunch of outraged citizens, after trying to murder Sharon, with bats sticks and fists as the entire scene is being videotaped by an shocked onlooker,Adam Rifkin. Still Vickers still manages to survive to live and kill another day in another Psycho Cop movie.