A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

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Cast

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Marion Cobretti
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Cho
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Captain Sears (as Art La Fleur)
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Supermarket Killer (as Marco Rodriguez)
Ross St. Phillip ...
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Chief Halliwell
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Dan
John Hauk ...
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Nick Angotti ...
Prodski
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Waitress
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Storyline

A gang of neo-fascist thugs, led by the self-proclaimed 'Night Slasher', are breaking into people's homes & cars, then killing them at random. When of of these thugs holds up a food store & takes hostages, Lt. Marian Cobretti - an intense, take-no-prisoners cop, is brought onto the scene to end the hostage-taking. Ranting bizarrely about a 'New World', the man levels a sawed-off shotgun at Cobretti, who hits him with a knife, then guns him down when the man refuses to put down his weapon. Later that night, another murder occurs, attributed to the Night Slasher - and the next day, another one. This one is witnessed by a young woman, Ingrid Knutsen. She drives away before the thugs can kill her, but it isn't long before some creepy-looking people start making attempts on her life - and Cobretti's. Cobretti plans to move the only witness to the blood spree upstate, but with inside information, the thugs follow them. And a battle for survival rages between Cobretti and the thugs... Written by Derek O'Cain

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Taglines:

Society is breeding a new kind of Criminal. It's also breeding a new kind of cop. See more »

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Action | Crime | Thriller

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Release Date:

23 May 1986 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Kobra  »

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$49,042,224 (USA)
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(70 mm prints)| (35 mm prints) (as Eagle Stereo)

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(Technicolor)

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1.85 : 1
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Trivia

Body count: 52. 41 of them are killed by Cobretti. See more »

Goofs

Near the middle of the movie, Cobretti is chasing Slasher and they both turn into a tight alleyway. When we see them both swerve around the corner and turn into the alleyway, at the far left side of the screen you can see a camera man filming the scene [widescreen.] See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Marion Cobretti: [narrating] In America, there's a burglary every 11 seconds, an armed robbery every 65 seconds, a violent crime every 25 seconds, a murder every 24 minutes and 250 rapes a day.
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Connections

Referenced in High Chaparall: Brigitte Nielsen (2004) See more »

Soundtracks

Suave
Performed by The Miami Sound Machine
Written by Gloria Estefan and Enrique Elías García
Produced by Emilio Estefan Jr.
Courtesy of Discos CBS International
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User Reviews

beautiful script!
20 November 2000 | by (Moscow, Russian) – See all my reviews

I'm very bad in english, i'm from Russia. But I'm fun of Stallone and don't keep silently. This film - classics! It don't have spare! All in it working for result. It's action in last type. In Russia, we have saying: all genius

  • simply. It's about this film. "Cobra" - as your picture at the wall -


nice for your eyes. Sorry for my bad english! Now I'm go to gim - i want to be strong as Cobretti. Arnold and Van Damm, and Sigal - stupid before Stallone! They never made such beautiful script!


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