Which zombie are you?
Zombie battle
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Roger Mortis and the resurrected of Dead Heat
Dead Heat is a buddy-cop comedy in which a murdered Los Angeles detective is brought back by the same machine the criminals are using. Its undead keep working until their bodies fall apart half a day later. It was a critical and commercial failure.1
First appeared
1988
Released 1988Source work
Dead Heat (1988)
Mark GoldblattMade in
USA
What causes it
Science gone wrong
A resurrection machine brings the dead back.How you become one
A corpse is put through the machine.
Intelligence
Clever
Weak spots
- they dissolve about twelve hours after resurrection
When did it first appear?
1988Released 1988
field notes
What the sources say
1
Resurrected robbers keep going after being riddled with bullets1
2
A detective killed on duty is revived and has about twelve hours to find his killers1
3
A man dead for longer comes back as an obedient zombie with no memory1
4
A criminal doctor reanimates robbers to steal for him1
5
Vincent Price appears in the cast1
6
Panned by critics on release1
Sources
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