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Dead Heat is a 1988 American buddy cop action zombie comedy film directed by Mark Goldblatt and starring Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Darren McGavin, Lindsay Frost and Vincent Price. The film is about an LAPD police officer who is murdered while attempting to arrest zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out violent armed robberies, and decides to get revenge with the…
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Job of a policeman is stressful and that stress can manifest in different and unexpected ways, including one that affected protagonist of *Dead Heat*, 2002 Canadian film written and directed by Mark Malone. Boston police officer Albert Paul “Pally” LaMarr (played by Kiefer Sutherland) has expected a lot in his line of duty, but not to suffer heart attack at the age of 35. Forced to retire, he isn’t able to sexually…More
When mixing different genres is not done carefully, it could lead to a film equivalent of a Frankenstein monster. In 1980s this happened with two genres characteristic for decade – gross out zombie horror and buddy cop action comedy. The result was *Dead Heat*, 1988 film directed by Mark Goldblatt. The plot begins in Los Angeles when two LAPD detectives – Roger Mortis (played by Treat Williams) and Doug Bigelow (pla…More
