Review of Dead Heat (1988) by Clare P — 25 Mar 2011
Dead Heat is a buddy cop movie with zombies. It's a great movie, with such notable names as Treat Williams, Joe Piscapo, and the legendary Vincent Price. It's basically about two cops investigating a bank robbery by two men who were apparently zombies.
While investigating, they find a machine that brings dead people back to life. Roger Mortis (one of the cops played by Treat Williams) dies, and is resurrected by Doug Biggelow (the other cop, played by Joe Piscapo).
They then have 12 hours to solve the mystery of Roger's death before Roger completely decomposes! It's all genius! Adding Vincent Price just makes it even better! If you want to see a movie that represents the 80s, see TerrorVision.
But, you should also see this one. However, one thing that drives me NUTS is that Joe Piscapo's character will not stop making terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE one-liners! Such as, "Remember the good old days when guns used to kill people?" and many, many more.
They're so bad, they're hilarious! I also really like the make-up on Williams as he slowly decomposes, until half his face is ripped off and he goes around like that. One cop even tries to arrest him, and you should see the look on that policeman's face when this zombie with half his face ripped off shows him his badge! Overall, a great film and definitely worth watching.
This review of Dead Heat (1988) was written by Clare P on 25 Mar 2011.
Dead Heat has generally received positive reviews.
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