Psycho Cop Returns is a 1993 Adam Rifkin movie, he directed it under the name Rif Coogan. Rifkin has directed 17 movies since 1989 and some TV. He's still making movies. His first two movies, Never On Tuesday and Tales Of Two Sisters, both stared Claudia Christian before she was on Babylon 5. He followed that with Invisible Maniac (directed under Rif Coogan), The Dark Backwards and The Nutt House. TDB is my favorite of his movies and one of my all time favorites. It's a nice step off the beaten path and not much like anything else. I've managed to not see the last bunch of his movies but I have a couple coming from Netflix.
Dan Povenmire is the writer, you might know his work from Phineas And Ferb, Sponger SquarePants and Rocko's Modern Life. He's also a storyboard artist who first got a storyboard job working for Adam Rifkin on Never On Tuesday. He was also the storyboard artist on Rifkin's The Dark Backwards.
I hadn't seen this before. According to Sperhauk it's the first time the movie has been on DVD or Blu-ray. There had been a VHS tape but I've never seen it. Some guys hold a stag party at their office after hours. Earlier in the day two of them had been in a diner and the loud mouth extra stupid guy mentions that the other one is responsible for getting pot for the party. Right next to them in the diner is the cop from the title of the movie. They don't know it yet but he's going to be the death of them. The cop is some sort of Satan worshiper with supernatural powers.
The cop follows the guys to their job and later observes extra stupid guy pay off the night guard to let him bring some party girls into the building. B-actress Julie Strain is one of the party girls. I wouldn't want to party with her, especially if she was naked. Soon the laughing policeman, gleefully quipping, starts picking them off one by one. It's got a nice sense of humor, some grisly content and a few naked ladies. It's fun and moves along fairly well. The people are pretty stupid and that doesn't help their chances of survival against an undead copper.
Raw Force is out in a nice Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome and we watched that. It's a 1982 American Philippine movie with Cameron Mitchell. It's written and directed by Edward D Murphy and it's the first of his two films. He's also an actor who's been in a few movies and shorts. He later became a lawyer, he mentions it in an interview in the Extras.
Cameron's the Captain of a boat in the Philippines. It's owned by an annoying woman called Hazel, played by Hope Holiday, who was Cameron Mitchell girlfriend at the time. She dated Jonathan Winters before Cameron and there was a time when Jonathan was going to be in the movie. He isn't.
Cameron is about ready to pack it in because she doesn't take care of the maintenance and the boat is falling apart. They spend much of the movie yelling at each other. She's got an idea to make more money by offering tours to a sacred island inhabited by some monks. Veteran Philippines actor Vic Diaz plays the head monk. He's in lots of low budget movies shot there. The local Police Chief is a crook who's trading the monks women for jade. The monks BBQ the women and use their cooked flesh to raise the dead.
That's some of the ashy dead up above. The island's graveyard is home to failed martial artists who came there to die. The Chief plans to wipe out the boat in order to keep his secret jade business going. He sends his minions to attack the boat and they light it on fire. That leaves a few of the passengers and crew alive, they manage to float to the island in a raft.
They have to fight the baddies and the monks to stay alive. They don't all make it. There's some kung fu action, some jokes, plenty of topless ladies and a lot of jungle scenery. It's a little better than average and it's fun to watch and I'm betting, fun to re-watch.
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