Favorite trash cinema and exploitation films
11Me Again wrote:Maniac Cop, that is one awful, awful, awful movie. Just looked and it has a 6.0 on IMDb, though.To put things in perspective, Keisuke Kinoshita's Big Joys, Small Sorrows -- a fine film -- has a 6.1. I don't know if that does put things into perspective or not. I kind of feel these things should be ranked within their own general groups. Maniac Cop has elements that make it somewhat more interesting than its peers in the horror underbelly so I could see it getting a "better than expected" bump in the ratings. The camera work, framing and lighting are all on point and Larry Cohen's ability to keep a story moving is a welcome plus. Have you seen Psycho Cop or R.O.T.O.R? Make a triple feature out of those with Maniac Cop and tell me it's not punching above its weight.On the other hand I can definitely see a Kinoshita film getting a shrug. I haven't seen this one in particular, but of the ones I have (Apostasy, Army, The Living Magoroku, Twenty-Four Eyes, Boyhood), their is a certain blandness and schmaltz going on as compared to the works of his contemporaries. He's no Naruse, Ozu, Shimizu, Gosho, Yoshimura, Mizoguchi, etc.