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Dead Heat (1988)

Dead Heat poster
Directed by
Mark Goldblatt
Genre
action film, zombie comedy, zombie film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 236 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An LAPD cop gets killed by zombie criminals reanimated by a lab. He comes back to life and teams up with his partner to get revenge on the people who did it.

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What happens

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 help of his former partner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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