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Dead Heat
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.
1988 · Directed by Mark Goldblatt · 86 min · Horror · Science Fiction · Action · Thriller · Comedy · 10 frames
Tagline
You can't keep a good cop dead.
Crew
- Screenplay: Terry Black
- Cinematography: Robert D. Yeoman
- Edited by: Harvey Rosenstock
- Music: Ernest Troost
- Production design: Craig Stearns
- Produced by: David Helpern, Michael L. Meltzer
Cast
- Treat Williams as Det. Roger Mortis
- Joe Piscopo as Det. Doug Bigelow
- Lindsay Frost as Randi James
- Darren McGavin as Dr. Ernest McNab
- Vincent Price as Arthur P. Loudermilk
- Robert Picardo as Lt. Herzog
- Martha Quinn as Newscaster
- Keye Luke as Mr. Thule
- Clare Kirkconnell as Rebecca Smythers
- Mel Stewart as Captain Mayberry
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: New World Pictures, Helpern / Meltzer
- Budget: $5,000,000
- Box office: $3,588,626
- Themes: police, undead, resurrection, zombie, campy, zombification, buddy cop
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