Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence is a 1992 American action slasher film written by Larry Cohen and directed by William Lustig. It is the third and final installment in the Maniac Cop film series. Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence was released in the United States on videocassette on July 7, 1993 after a December 1992 airing on HBO. While receiving negative reviews upon release, it received retrospective critical praise in later years. Plot A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and comes back to life to do his bidding. Meanwhile, a pair of cameramen who are hoping to make it big come across a convenience store robbery, where a police officer named Katie Sullivan intervenes in a hostage situation; she manages to wound the suspect but realizes that the clerk is his girlfriend, and she had intentionally let him in to rob the store. There is a crossfire, and while Kate is severely wounded, she ends up killing the clerk in return. Though rushed to the hospital, Kate is declared comatose and brain dead, much to the chagrin of investigating officer Sean McKinney. McKinney catches the report of Katie using excessive force in a hostage situation, which portrays the clerk as an innocent victim and threatens to free the badly injured Frank Jessup. Meanwhile, stalking Katie's progress, Cordell goes to the hospital to watch her (killing a heckler in the process). He kills one of her supervising physicians with defibrillator paddles, then murders Katie's physician with X-ray radiation. The four reporters who had framed Kate are also slain by Cordell afterwards. Meanwhile, McKinney and a physician, Susan, are investigating the murders and the strange behavior experienced by the comatose Kate. Their investigations lead them to Houngan, who admits that he had brought Cordell back from the dead, and he is interested in Kate, who is on the verge of death. At gunpoint, Cordell forces Houngan to attempt the resurrection on her, but he is unable to do so, stating her spirit is refusing to return from the dead to be with him. Cordell kills Houngan, and both he and Kate are set on fire in the process; she is immolated. As they escape, Susan and McKinney are chased by Cordell, who survived the fire while remaining ablaze. He chases them in a beat-up police car while they ride in an ambulance. They