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Dead Heat is a little known 1988 "buddy cop" zombie movie staring  Joe Piscopo of "Saturday Night Live" fame and Treat Williams. 

Even though this wasn't a huge success at the box office it was still a pretty good 80's zombie flick, think Tango and Cash + Zombies.It starts off like any buddy cop movie, there are some bad guys robbing a jewelry store, and then they just won't die. No matter how many times the cops shot them. A little while later while investigating the robbery a fist fight breaks out with another zombie and Roger (Treat Williams) get lock in an animal euthanasia room. The life gets sucked out of him, Doug (Joe Piscopo) does what any good partner would do and brings him back to life in a big machine like contraption. At this point in the movie he finds out that being back from the dead comes with a catch, after a while you start to rot and bits may fall off you. They then race around looking for his killer before he decomposes.

The Good.

• The special effects and makeup are really good, pre CGI the full on gore was amazing. There is one scene that made Zombie Dave go," Urrrr gross, yuck.." A woman who has also been through the zombie maker decomposes right there on screen, not a pretty sight. The artist behind this movie was Steve Johnson (An American Werewolf in London, Pet Sematary II,  Return of the Living Dead III). 
  
• Lots of one liners, when I say lots I mean lots.
• Vincent Price is in it, only for a small part, but he's there.
  
• The cheesy 80's music, you got to love it, it just gets in your head, zombies please eat my brain out....
  
• The super shoulder pads, they could of ripped them right out their jackets and beaten some of the zombies to death.    
  

The Bad

• Some of the above....
  

This film is worth watching, it's exactly what you would expect from a 1988 zombie cop buddy movie.  

• First Zombie appears - 
• First Bite - 
• Zombie Bite Count - 
• First Zombie Kill - 
• Zombie Kill Count - 
• Fast Zombies -

Best Lines -
Best Weapon - Lots of bullets followed by a witty one liner.

Director
Mark Goldblatt

Writer
Terry Black

Staring
 Treat Williams
 Joe Piscopo 
Lindsay Frost

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