Sylvester Stallone is one of cinema's greatest action icons, but he has also made a couple trips into horror territory – like in 1986's COBRA, which is the subject of the new episode of our THE BEST HORROR MOVIE YOU NEVER SAW video series! The episode is embedded above, and you can watch the movie HERE.
Some may debate whether or not COBRA has a place in the horror genre, but I have always considered it to be a horror film. Sure, it is heavy on the action, but it also happens to be about Stallone's cop character Marion "Cobra" Cobretti trying to protect model Ingrid Knudsen (Stallone's then-wife Brigitte Nielsen) from a knife-wielding madman known as the Night Slasher, played by a very intense Brian Thompson. The scenes with the Night Slasher are pure horror, and when Cobra and Ingrid also have to fend off the cult that the killer is in the movie becomes something like RACE WITH THE DEVIL, but with more firepower.
Directed by George P. Cosmatos (who previously worked with Stallone in RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II) from a screenplay Stallone wrote himself, COBRA has the following official synopsis:
Lt. Cobretti is a one-man assault team whose laser-mount submachine gun and pearl-handled Colt .45 spit pure crime-stopping venom! Director George P. Cosmatos teams up again with Stallone for this thriller pitting Cobretti against a merciless serial killer. The trail leads to not one murderer but also an army of psychos bent on slashing their way to a "New Order" – and killing a witness along the way. Fortunately, her protector is Cobra, a man who delivers vigilante justice like no other!
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