Maniac Cop ★☆☆☆☆

This review contains spoilers.

A pretty boring slasher. It seems fairly critical of the police at first with the polices’ reaction to the murders to try and shut down any internal investigation and some vox pops showing the public’s complete lack of surprise of a serial killer in uniform but this is quickly dropped for a more standard story of our good cop taking the fall and having to clear his name.

The version I watched was not helped by the editing in of some additional scenes that were apparently filmed for a Japanese TV broadcast version of the movie that help to kill the pacing and spoil any mystery on top of being a jarring stepdown in direction and video resolution.