Maniac Cop 2 is a 1990 action/horror film , and a sequel to Maniac Cop, directed by William Lustig and written by Larry Cohen. The film is the first in the series to suffer cuts by the MPAA, having some of the violence trimmed to get an "R" rating, most notably the police station massacre, which appears in its entirety as a flashback sequence in Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence (which was also originally rated NC-17).
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Maniac Cop 2 is a 1990 action/horror film , and a sequel to Maniac Cop, directed by William Lustig and written by Larry Cohen. The film is the first in the series to suffer cuts by the MPAA, having some of the violence trimmed to get an "R" rating, most notably the police station massacre, which appears in its entirety as a flashback sequence in Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence (which was also originally rated NC-17).
Surviving being impaled by a pipe and plunging into a river at the end of the previous film, the undead Maniac Cop Officer Matthew Cordell (Robert Z'Dar) acquires a junked police cruiser and continues his killing spree through New York, attacking a convenience store in the middle of a robbery and killing the clerk (the thief subsequently being killed in a shootout with police). As Cordell stalks the streets his enemies Officers Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell) and Teresa Mallory (Laurene Landon) are put back on active duty by Commissioner Edward Doyle (Michael Lerner) who...
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