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Dead Heat

Year:

1988

Duration:

86 min

Genres:

Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

IMDB rate:

Director:

Mark Goldblatt

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1988-05-06

Filming Locations: Japanese Garden, Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant - 6100 Woodley Avenue, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $5,000,000

Opening Weekend: $1,667,036 (USA) (8 May 1988)

Gross: $3,588,626 (USA) Filming Dates 19 August 1987 Related Links

Cast

Actor

Character

Treat Williams

Roger Mortis

Joe Piscopo

Doug Bigelow

Lindsay Frost

Randi James

Darren McGavin

Dr. Ernest McNab

Vincent Price

Arthur P. Loudermilk

Clare Kirkconnell

Rebecca Smythers

Keye Luke

Mr. Thule

Robert Picardo

Lieutenant Herzog

Mel Stewart

Captain Mayberry

Professor Toru Tanaka

Butcher

Martha Quinn

Newscaster

Ben Mittleman

Bob

Peter Kent

Smitty

Cate Caplin

Saleswoman

Monica Lewis

Mrs. Von Heisenberg

Peggy O'Brien

Jewelry Store Manager

Chip Heller

Wilcox

Steven R. Bannister

The Thing

Lew Hopson

Whitfield

Tom Nolan

Jonas

Steve Itkin

Fireman

Shane Black

Patrolman

Michael Saad

Guard #1 (as Mike Saad)

Monty Cox

Guard #2

Monty Ash

Walter

H. Ray Huff

Cop

Pons Maar

Pool Zombie

Dawan Scott

Pool Zombie

Ivan E. Roth

End Zombie

Ron Taylor

Shoot Out Zombie

Yvonne Peattie

Gertrude Bellman

Clarence Brown

Harry Latham

Pamela Vansant

Lab Technician

Beth Toussaint

Lab Technician

Stephen Jacques

Officer Liptak (uncredited)

Loren Janes

Man In Room (uncredited)

Gene LeBell

Guard (uncredited)

Linnea Quigley

Zombie Go-go Girl (uncredited)

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Trivia

The lead character is Roger Mortis. Mortis is the Latin word for "death". Roger Mortis also sounds quite a bit like rigor mortis.

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Writer Terry Black was approached by New World Pictures to write a sequel to Dead Heat. Black told a New World executive that a sequel would be hard to do because all the main characters died at the end of the first film. The executive responded "you've got a resurrection machine... you figure it out." The sequel however was never made.

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Goofs

Roger copies down the number found inside the lampshade at Loudermilk's crypt. This number is 2639362867. He later deduces that this number was used as code to spell out "BODYDOC", Dr. McNab's license plate. While the first 7 numbers could spell that out, what about the last 3 numbers at the end? All 10 together could spell out "BodyDoctor", leading to the deduction of the plate number.

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When Roger is examined by Rebecca after his resurrection, he cuts himself and does not bleed as he is found to have no pulse. Later he is shot and bleeds from his wounds, which contradicts his earlier examination.

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The large man attacks Mortis with the meat cleaver. Moments before Mortis wraps it in a bandage we see the hand is clearly a prop having a thumb and two fingers on the left side of the now missing digit and two fingers on the right. He did not have six digits before.

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Quotes

Det. Doug Bigelow: You remember when we were in training? They always told us, "You can't be a good cop if you're a dead cop." Here's your chance to prove them wrong. You're good and you're dead.

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Det. Roger Mortis: You know, the weird thing is, I feel fine. I feel like I could run in the Boston Marathon.

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Arthur P. Loudermilk: God wants us to live forever. And even if he doesn't, you could always buy him off.

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