Dead Heat

1988

Action / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 48% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 48% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 10133 10.1K

police undead resurrection zombie zombification buddy cop

Plot summary

Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.

Director

Mark Goldblatt Photo
Mark Goldblatt

Top cast

Gene LeBell Photo
Gene LeBell as Guard
Beth Toussaint Photo
Beth Toussaint as Lab Technician
Chip Heller Photo
Chip Heller as Wilcox
Treat Williams Photo
Treat Williams as Roger Mortis
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
723.27 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 4
1.35 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lastliberal 6 / 10

You are under arrest. You have the right to remain disgusting.

I saw the first monster and I thought my TV was out of focus. He had like three noses, and a mouth that stretched all across his face. This ain't your daddy's buddy cop flick.But nothing prepared me for the butcher shop. That was a riot! And two zombies with machine guns trying to kill each other was a hoot! Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo were great as the buddy cops.The show even had Vincent Price. Darren McGavin was excellent as the bad guy who was resurrecting zombies to do his bidding.A funny zombie cop movie that was well worth the time, even though it could have used some gratuitous nudity.
Reviewed by mattressman_pdl 7 / 10

Remember The Good Old Days When Bullets Actually Killed People

Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo are two, now get his, mismatched cops. Joe Piscopo is Bigelow, a macho, insensitive lug who only cares about himself...maybe. Treat Williams is Mortis, a kind, intuitive detective with a promising career ahead of him...until his latest case lands him on a slab. Fortunately, the case provides them with a means to bring Mortis back. Now, Bigelow and an undead Mortis race to find Mortis' killer before it's too late...(or perhaps it already is) The film tries hard to be funny, and it is, in certain moments. The two lead actors have a kind of chemistry and the cast of character actors are dynamite (including Darren McGavin, Vincent Price, Robert Picardo, and Key Luke) but it is the genre-mixing which steals the show. The butcher shop scene is hilarious and sick, a good indication of where the movie would have went if more freedom had been extended toward the filmmakers. But it remains a neat little flick for the horror lovers and the action buffs everywhere.Hopefully more and more people will discover this title, but until then, it has a small cult audience. Don't let that stop ya, seek it out. It won't change your life, but it ought to give you a diverting way to spend an hour and a half.
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