History Film / PsychoCop

''Psycho Cop'' (1989) and its sequel ''Film/PsychoCopReturns'' (1993) are two [[SlasherMovie slasher movies]] [[VillainBasedFranchise which follow]] the exploits of [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer police impersonator]] Joe Vickers (Robert R. Shafer), who is on a [[MissionFromGod mission from Satan]] [[OmniscientMoralityLicense to kill everyone he perceives as criminals]] [[PungeonMaster and make bad puns]] out of everything while he's at it. [[FollowTheLeader Curiously]], these movies hit the cinemas right after the first ''Film/ManiacCop'' installment.

* AnAxeToGrind: Vickers steals the caretaker's axe, and uses it to kill him.

%%* LaughablyEvil: Vickers.

** Evidently Satan changed his mind [[PsychoCopReturns by the sequel]], as Vickers uses his gun to commit several of his murders.

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Averted with Laura, as her friend Dough also survives the movie]].

* CarFu: Vickers lure Julie into the woods by stealing her brush. When she retrieves it from the ground, he runs her ovver with his car.

%%* CuriosityKilledTheCast

''Psycho Cop'' (1989) and its sequel ''Film/PsychoCopReturns'' (1993) are two [[SlasherMovie slasher movies]] [[VillainBasedFranchise which follow]] the exploits of [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer police impersonator]] Joe Vickers, who is on a [[MissionFromGod mission from Satan]] [[OmniscientMoralityLicense to kill everyone he perceives as criminals]] [[PungeonMaster and make bad puns]] out of everything while he's at it. [[FollowTheLeader Curiously]], these movies hit the cinemas right after the first ''Film/ManiacCop'' installment.

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-> ''[[{{Determinator}} He always gets his man]][[KillEmAll ...and everyone else]].''
-->-- Tagline for the first film.

''Psycho Cop'' and its sequel ''Psycho Cop [[RevengeOfTheSequel Returns]]'' (also known as simply ''[[NumberedSequels Psycho Cop 2]]'') were two [[SoBadItsGood So Bad They're Good]] {{Slasher Movie}}s [[VillainBasedFranchise which followed]] the exploits of [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer police impersonator]] {{serial killer}} Joe Vickers, who is on a [[MissionFromGod mission from Satan]] [[OmniscientMoralityLicense to kill everyone he perceives as criminals]] [[PungeonMaster and make bad puns]] out of everything while he's at it. [[FollowTheLeader Curiously]], these movies hit the cinemas right after the first ''Film/ManiacCop'' installment.

In the first film, three young couples decide to have good time on a luxury cabin which resides in the backwoods. They are followed by Vickers who starts killing them one by one. Unsurprisingly, the movie ends with Vickers NotQuiteDead.

The second film opens with Vickers hearing about a bachelor party from two office workers which will be held in an office building in late-hours and it will include booze, drugs and hookers. He then follows the two men to the site of the party, locks the doors and starts killing everyone stuck inside with him.

This movie ditches the ClicheStorm teenkill-aproach from the first film and goes over the top with its presentation; [[BloodierAndGorier gore]], [[HotterAndSexier nudity]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun laughably bad puns]] are all over the place.

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!!These two films contain examples of:

* AbusiveParents: Vicker's FreudianExcuse, along with being dumped by foster care.
* AerosolFlamethrower: Sharon defends herself with one in ''Returns''.
* AndShowItToYou: Officer Bradley's death in ''Psycho Cop''.
-->"Have a heart!"
* AnAxeToGrind: Axings are prominent on both movies.
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: Variation is said in the first film.
-->'''Laura''': "Oh God..."
-->'''Vickers''': "God? Hah! ''God'' has nothing to do with it!"
* BarrierBustingBlow: Done to a door in the first film.
* BehindTheBlack: In the first film, Vickers manages sneak up on Zack ''with his car''.
** In fact, it happens so often in this movie, that eventually you start to wonder if every character except Vickers is deaf.
* BigNO: Brian's reaction when Vickers kills Larry in the sequel.
* BoomHeadshot: Officer Chris's death in ''Psycho Cop'', and roughly half the murders in ''Returns''.
* CarFu: Julie's death in ''Psycho Cop''.

* ClosedCircle: The Stonecipher Enterpises office building in the sequel.
* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: Said in the sequel.
* ContinuityNod: Vickers mentions the happenings of the first film at one point in the sequel.
* CoolShades: Vickers wears them [[SunglassesAtNight at night]] and they are later burned into [[EyepatchOfPower a kind-of eyepatch]].
* CreatorCameo: Second film's producer and director appear as a bartender and a bystander with a video camera, respectively.
* CreepyCoolCrosses: Vickers builds these to crucify his victims in the first movie.
* CreepySouvenir: Vickers's patrol car in the second film is filled with body parts of his past victims.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: First film.
* CutPhoneLines
* DangerousWorkplace: Setting of the second film.
* DeathByMocking: Zack in the first film.
* DeathBySex: Rampant in the sequel.

* DoesNotLikeGuns: Satan, according to Vickers, though he shrugs this off with an "Ah, what the Hell!"
* DontGoInTheWoods: First film.
* DonutMessWithACop: While listening to Larry and Brian talking about the upcoming party in the sequel's opening, Vickers is seen drinking coffee and eating donuts... ''[[BulletTime IN SLOW MOTION!]]''
* DoubleTake: Bartender's reaction when sees Vickers attacking Sharon outside his workplace in the sequel.
* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement: Used in the sequel.
-->'''Vickers''': "Seventh floor: Linens, luxury, eviscareted women."
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: ''Returns''.
* EvilElevator: Elevators in the sequel after Vickers has sabotaged them.
* EvilIsHammy: Vickers' actor Robert R. Shafer does his damnedest to entertain, and he succeeds.
* EvilLaugh: Vickers has a very jolly one.
* ExactWords: In the sequel, Sharon has Vickers on her sights but he has one strippers as a meatshield. Then he promises that he won't shoot her if Sharon puts the gun down. She complies, and he snaps the stripper's neck because he only said that he wouldn't ''shoot'' her.
* EyeScream: Gus's death in the sequel.
* EyepatchOfPower: In the sequel, Vickers gets half of his face burnt while wearing sunglasses and is left with other half of his sunglasses covering his healthy eye
* FinalGirl: Laura in the first film and Sharon in the sequel.
* FingerWag: Vickers wags his finger at Mike when he unknowingly evades him in the second film.
* FollowTheLeader: These films came in the wake of ''Film/ManiacCop''.
* FootprintsOfMuck: In the first movie, Vickers tries to gain Laura's and Doug's trust to lure them in Doug realizes that Vickers is the killer because the footprints he leaves behind on the floor are the same size as the prints he has left in the shed.
* FrenchMaidOutfit: One of the strippers is wearing one in the second film.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Vickers hits himself on the head with a beer bottle when rampaging in the offices in the sequel.
* GrossUpCloseUp: Various body parts in Vickers' car are shown up close during the sequel's opening credits.
* GrumpyOldMan: The sequel has Mr. Stonecipher, the boss of the company where protagonists work. He hates brownnosers.
* HealingFactor: Vickers has it.
* HollywoodSatanism: Vickers worships Satan, as evidenced by the various markings of pentagrams, 666's and dead animals nailed to trees that he leaves behind.
* ILied
-->'''Vickers''': "Remember what I said about not holding a grudge? I lied!"
* INeedAFreakingDrink
* ImmuneToBullets

* LaughablyEvil: Vickers.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Whenever we're shown Vickers stalking the characters in the first film, he is always accompanied by certain ominous music.

* MenacingStroll: Vickers uses it in the first film, but has wisened up for the sequel and actually runs in the final ChaseScene.
* MickeyMousing: Added to some actions in the sequel for extra cheese.
* MrExposition: Officer Bradley in ''Psycho Cop''.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The various slowmotion shots in the sequel.
* NeckLift: Vickers performs it a couple times in the first movie. First time it's used is followed by:
* NeckSnap
* NiceJobGuidingUsHero
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Vickers gets one in the sequel from a lynch mob, in a sequence that comes off as a weird inversion of the Rodney King assault, complete with videotaping bystander.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Vickers has it tattooed in his hand and it's pretty much his calling card along with pentagrams.

* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Vickers goes after his victims from slightest of hint that they are up something illegal.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The bachelor party in the second movie.
* PeekABooCorpse: Lampshaded in ''Returns'', where the bodies fall out of the ceiling instead of the expected cabinet.
* ThePenIsMightier: To stab people in the eye, that is.

* PungeonMaster: Vickers makes every pun imaginable from everything remotely police-related. [[UpToEleven And he doesn't even limit himself to those either]].
* RainOfBlood: After Larry says in the sequel that there isn't some crazy killer loose, blood starts dripping from above.
* ReadingYourRights: Couple of puns are created from it.

* SequelEscalation: Aside from Vickers' bad puns, the first film were still your average by-the-book slasher film. ''Returns'' amped the amount of gore, skin and bad puns making it tremendously entertaining BMovie.
* ScareChord: Used in fake scares of the first film.
* SerialKiller: According to a newscast at the end of ''Psycho Cop'', Vickers (or is it Greg Henley?) may be an escaped serial killer named Ted Warnicky.
* ShoutOut: ''[[Film/TheShining "Heeeeeere's Joey!"]]''
** "Give me a break, this is not ''Franchise/FridayThe13th Part Infinity'' here."
* SlasherSmile
** PerpetualSmiler
* SoundOnlyDeath: In the sequel's ending when Vickers kills people coming in to his room.

-->'''Caretaker''': "It can't be."
-->'''Vickers''': "But ''it is!"''
* TrashLanding: In the sequel Vickers drops one of the strippers into the trash from the top floor of an office building.
-->'''Vickers''': "You act like trash, you get treated like trash."
* VillainBasedFranchise
* VillainOpeningScene: First film opens with Vickers killing some couple unrelated to the plot.
* VillainousBreakdown: As ''Returns'' progresses, Vickers grows more and more psychotic, babbling semi-coherently, destroying random office furniture, and beating himself over the head with a bottle.
* YouCanRunButYouCantHide: Said in the sequel.
* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: Said to Brian when he is spooked.
* YourCheatingHeart: In the sequel Tony (a married man) and Chloe (a married woman) stay at the work after closing-hours for sex. Also, Gary is about to cheat on his upcoming wife with a stripper before he gets killed.
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* YourCheatingHeart: In the sequel Tony (a married man) and Chloe stay at the work after closing-hours for sex. Also, Gary is about to cheat on his upcoming wife with a stripper before he gets killed.

'''''Psycho Cop''''' and its sequel '''''Psycho Cop [[RevengeOfTheSequel Returns]]''''' (also known as simply ''[[NumberedSequels Psycho Cop 2]]'') were two [[SoBadItsGood So Bad They're Good]] {{Slasher Movie}}s [[VillainBasedFranchise which followed]] the exploits of [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer police impersonator]] {{serial killer}} Joe Vickers, who is on a [[MissionFromGod mission from Satan]] [[OmniscientMoralityLicense to kill everyone he perceives as criminals]] [[PungeonMaster and make bad puns]] out of everything while he's at it. [[FollowTheLeader Curiously]], these movies hit the cinemas right after the first ''Film/ManiacCop'' installment.

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Though Vickers technically was once a police officer.

-> [[{{Determinator}} He always gets his man]][[KillEmAll ...and everyone else]].
->-- Tagline for the first film.

* HollywoodSatanism: Vickers worships Satan.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The various markings of pentagrams, 666's and dead animals nailed to trees that Vickers leaves behind.

'''''Psycho Cop''''' and its sequel '''''Psycho Cop [[RevengeOfTheSequel Returns]]''''' (also known as simply ''[[NumberedSequels Psycho Cop 2]]'') were two [[SoBadItsGood So Bad They're Good]] SlasherMovies [[VillainBasedFranchise which followed]] the exploits of [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer police impersonator]] {{serial killer}} Joe Vickers, who is on a [[MissionFromGod mission from Satan]] [[OmniscientMoralityLicense to kill everyone he perceives as criminals]] [[PungeonMaster and make bad puns]] out of everything while he's at it. [[FollowTheLeader Curiously]], these movies hit the cinemas right after the first ''Film/ManiacCop'' installment.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: The various slowmotion shots in the sequel.

* SmithWillSuffice: Variation is said in the first film.
-->'''Laura''': "Oh God..."
-->'''Vickers''': "God? Hah! ''God'' has nothing to do with it!"

'''''Psycho Cop''''' and its sequel '''''Psycho Cop [[RevengeOfTheSequel Returns]]''''' (also known as simply ''[[NumberedSequels Psycho Cop 2]]'') were two [[SoBadItsGood So Bad They're Good]] SlasherMovies [[VillainBasedFranchise which followed]] the exploits of [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer police impersonator]] {{serial killer}} Joe Vickers, who is on a [[MissionFromGod mission from Satan]] [[OmniscientMoralityLicense to kill everyone he perceives as criminals]] [[PungeonMaster and make bad puns]] out of everything while he's at it. [[FollowTheLeader Curiously]], these movies hit the cinemas right after the first ''ManiacCop'' installment.

* TwentyMinutesWithJerks: in the first movie most of the time is spend is watching protagonists wondering aloud where the caretaker went off to, where's the beer and other mundane things.

The second film opens with Vickers hearing about a bachelor party from two office workers which will be held in unnamed office building in late-hours and it will include booze, drugs and hookers. He then follows the two men to the site of the party, locks the doors and starts killing everyone stuck inside with him.

This movie ditches the ClicheStorm teenkill-aproach from the first film and goes OffTheRails with it's presentation; [[BloodierAndGorier gore]], [[HotterAndSexier nudity]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun laughably bad puns]] are all over the place.

* BigNO

* ClosedCircle: The office building in the sequel.

* CreepyCoolCrosses: Vickers builds these to [[CrucifiedHeroShot crucify his victims]] in the first movie.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: ''Returns''

* EvilIsHammy: Vickers' actor Robert R. Shafer does his damnedest to entertain and he succeeds.

* EvillyAffable
* ExactWords: In the sequel, Sharon has Vickers on her sights but he has one strippers as a meatshield. Then he promises that he won't shoot her if Sharon puts the gun down. Then he snaps the stripper's neck.
* EyeScream: Gus' death in the sequel.

* GrumpyOldMan: The sequel has Mr. Stonecipher, the boss of the unnamed company where protagonists work. He hates brownnosers.

* ReligionOfEvil: Vickers worships {{Satan}}.

-->'''Vickers''': "''God'' has nothing to do with it!"
* SoundOnlyDeath

-->'''Caretaker''': "It can't be!"

* YouCanRunButYouCantHide: Said in the sequel
* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: ''Returns'', up until the obligatory OrIsIt

* DingSportswearPantyhoseAndTropes: Used in the sequel.
-->'''Vickers''': "Seventh floor: Linens, luxury, eviscareted women."

'''''Psycho Cop''''' and its sequel '''''Psycho Cop [[RevengeOfTheSequel Returns]]''''' (also known as simply ''[[NumberedSequels Psycho Cop 2]]'') were two [[SoBadItsGood So Bad They're Good]] SlasherMovies [[VillainBasedFranchise which followed]] the exploits of [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer police impersonator]] {{serial killer}} Joe Vickers, who is on a [[MissionFromGod mission from Satan]] [[OmniscientMoralityLicense to kill everyone he perceives as criminals]] [[PungeonMaster and make bad puns]] out of everyhting while he's at it. [[FollowTheLeader Curiously]], these movies hit the cinemas right after the first ''ManiacCop'' installment.