Dead Heat

This is the story of two L.A. detectives Roger Mortis ( Treat Williams) and Doug Bigelow ( Joe Piscopo) who are solving crimes caused by undead criminals caused by a mysterious medical company that has a machine that resurrects the dead into zombies. Roger unfotunately gets killed, but he gets brought back to life but only for 13 hours before he can decompose into dust, he must solve his own homicide and find the mastermind behind it.A highly entertaining, gory and funny mixture of sci-fi, horror, action, buddy cop and comedy with great make-up and monster effects by Steve Johnson, Vincient Price and Darren Mcgavin ( A Christmas Story) co-star as the bad guys who own the medical company. There is also plenty of action, witty humor, a memorable Chinese butcher shop scene involving undead meat, gore, and a nice twist in the end. This DVD offers excellent picture and sound quality all thanks to Anchor Bay's Divamax, great extras such as deleted scenes ( Scenes that had to avoid the X rating when this movie came out in 1988), Commentary by the director and writer, Poster-and-still gallery, Original storyboard art, MIFED promo, Widescreen, theatrical trailer.I recommend this movie to fans of zombie movies, action flicks and horror comedies.Similar movies recommended: " L.A. Confidential", " The Stuff", " Burial Ground", " Day of the Dead", " Re-Animator", " Return of the Living Dead", " From Dusk Till Dawn", " Lethal Weapon", " Robocop", " Die Hard", " Nightmare City", " Hell of the Living Dead", " Dawn of the Dead", " Blade 1 & 2", " Vampire Hunter D", " Bio Zombie", " Return of the Living Dead 3", " Freddy Vs. Jason", " Dark Blue", " Zombie", " The Beyond", "House By The Cemetery", " Bride of Re-Animator", " Frankenstein", " Beyond Re-Animator", " The Serpent and The Rainbow", " Dead & Buried", " Resident Evil", " 28 Days Later".

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MY CALL: This is more of a hard-R cop movie with healthy doses of humor than a horror movie… but there are zombies… and it does get gory and gross. This gets a pretty strong recommendation from me. It’s a lot of fun.Director Mark Goldblatt (The Punisher) opens this film in the classic trappings of a lower budget Lethal Weapon (1987) as we meet stylish cop Roger Mortis (Treat Williams; Deep Rising, Night of the Sharks) and his loose cannon partner Doug (Joe Piscopo). Despite their differences, they get along and share a propensity for mean street violence.What’s nice about this movie is that it feels like a gritty, buddy cop movie first and a horror movie second, such that the writing and characters are richer and better written. When our cops look into a recent diamond heist in which the robbers seem immune to bullets, it is discovered that they had received autopsies at the local morgue prior to committing crime! Following a lead on some chemical traces, Roger and Doug look into a pharmaceutical company with a few undead secrets. Daughter to a recently deceased pharmaceutical business mogul (Vincent Price; From a Whisper to a Scream), Randi (Lindsay Frost; The Ring) handles PR for this zombie company.Our first zombie encounter is with a monstrous, split-faced mongoloid which makes for an entertaining (even if clunky) fight scene in the pharmaceutical lab. Subsequent encounters with gun-toting zombie criminals bring more gunplay than brain-eating. I quite enjoyed the re-animated butcher shop creatures, with some action smacking hard of Re-Animator (1985). We also see a rapid decomposition before our eyes, and it is delightfully gross and full of flesh melty goodness! The best effect of the movie!After dying and being resurrected himself, Roger degenerates more and more, and by the end of the movie he looks worse than Bill Paxton from Near Dark (1987). And with this look, we find some good humor as well.Not sure how this movie evaded my attention for so many decades. I always knew it existed, but just never got around to it. And now that I have, I find it to be a pleasantly surprising forgotten gem of the 80s. So to fans of the 80s, this is strongly recommended.

This is the epitome of the type of movie Anchor Bay releases on DVD, crisp, clean, clear and celestial. Dead Heat is by far a cult movie that can be seen as both an action and horror movie. Our leads, LAPD detectives Roger Mortis (Treat Williams) and Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) are investigating crimes, which are being committed by people who are deceased. When Roger is killed during the investigation, he is brought back to life, by the same element that is resurrecting these criminals, to solve the mystery.The movie itself isn't suppose to be taken seriously, at least that is how I watched it. Joe Piscopo provides many one liners that are really funny, and one liners can be hard to pull off. Treat Williams also provides some dry and wry humor. It's cool that Vincent Price was in this movie, which gives it the official horror stamp of approval. There are plenty of dummies, fake blood, and cheesy effects to keep you going. It also has this buddy cop vibe to it, now it isn't Lethal Weapon or anything, but still a buddy cop movie. The sour cream on the taco is it was made in the 1980s! So if you love those late night cop movies and have a taste for things that are undead, you get them both in the same eighty-four minutes!

It has that wisecracking buddy-movie archetype, AND Vincent Price, AND zombies.

Love it!!! The movie was just like I remembered! Haven't seen this in years. My brother and I would quote lines from this movie from when we were younger.

No CGI, practical effects rock! Just a fun horror comedy with some great lines. You can tell the people making this had a great time. This was made before movies had to constantly think about the "fallout" from jokes etc. You can really have a good time with this flick. Enjoy!

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Der vor kurzem leider verstorbene Treat Williams in einer seiner Rollen aus den guten alten Achtzigern.Action, Comedy,... eben aus einer Zeit in der das hervorragend zusammenpasste.Empfehlung.

Hilarious movie from my childhood! Don't think I've seen it in over 20 years, but amused me just as much now as it did then!! Also love the cameo from Vincent Price, just adds a little class 👍

Sure, it's not blu-ray. Sure, the jokes are bad the story is ...off. But it was great fun in the 80's and I loved taking the walk down memory lane. Product was delivered quickly and without difficulty

"Dead Heat" ist ein relativ unbekannter kleiner Trashfilm aus den 80ern.Und da er vor kurzem in Deutschland neu auf Blu-Ray und DVD veröffentlicht wurde, hatte ich die Gelegenheit mir den Streifen mal zu Gemüte zu führen.In der Hauptrolle sind Treat Williams und Joe Piscopo zu sehen.Treat Williams ist eigentlich kein so unbekanntes Gesicht, aber leider ist er irgendwie untergegangen. Schade denn ein schlechter ist er nicht. In "Octalus – Tod aus der Tiefe" hat er mir z.B gut gefallen.Joe Piscopo kannte ich vorher nicht. War wohl mal ein Comedian bei "Saturday Night Live". Sonst kaum in Erscheinung getreten. Fand den hier in der Rolle aber nicht unsympathischWorum gehts?Die beiden Detectives Mortis und Doug Bigelow ermittlen über einen Juwelierraub und stoßen auf einen Chemiekonzern, dieser holt die Toten wieder ins Leben zurück und manipuliert sie für dunkle Zwecke.Hört sich schon mal trashig an. Irgendwo angesiedelt zwischen einem Buddy Movie und einem Zombie Film, angereichert mit vielen dummen Sprüchen und kuriosen Figuren.Die beiden Hauptdarsteller passen gut zusammen. Die Effekte stimmen und sind teils recht lustig. Der Kampf in einem China Restaurant wo auf einmal alles lebendig wird und zum Schluss ein riesiges untotes Spanferkel angreift ist auf jedenfall ein Highlight.Nur Action hätte es ruhig etwas mehr geben können. Ein Gore Fest darf man auch nicht erwarten. Mein der Film ist nicht unblutig, aber übertrieben ist er in der Hinsicht nicht.Am Ende gibt es noch einen kurzen Gastauftritt von Altmeister Vincent Price. Für 80's Fans und B-Movie Liebhaber ist "Dead Heat" aber zu empfehlen.Zombies, Action und blöde Sprüche. Was will man denn mehr? kurzweilig und unterhaltsam.Die Blu-Ray bietet gute Qualität in Sachen Bild und Ton. Wenn man das Alter des Filmes bedenkt, kann man zufrieden sein. Auf jeden fall besser als die vorherigen Veröffentlichungen. Als Extras gibt es einen Audiokommentar, eine alternative Langfassung, Deleted Scenes, Press Kit, Mifed Promo und Trailer. Ganz ok würde ich sagen.Insgesamt 4 von 5 Sterne!

1988年の米国B級映画！設定が面白い。死体が宝石店を襲う?!そんな馬鹿な！死体が家宅侵入する！そんな阿呆な！スタイル抜群の美女が、12時間後には死体に?!あり得ん！そして、死体の犯罪者を追う刑事たちが・・・もうどうにでもしてくれ！最高の見せ場は、PENTHOUSEのグラビア(ちなみに下着着用。ヘアーヌードではない)を穴が開くように夢中で見ている男に、「勃起している最中、悪いな」と見るのを邪魔をするシーン。これ以外にも、お下劣なジョークがあちこちに散りばめられています。残念なのは、日本語版と英語の字幕版がないこと。英語を勉強する方は、ヒアリングの練習のつもりで鑑賞して下さい。それと何処かの奇特な会社が日本語版を出してくれないかな?