Dreadphile Cinema Club

Detective Roger Mortis has 12 hours to solve the toughest murder case of his career - his own. Clues from a series of armed robberies by un-killable men leads Roger (Treat Williams) and his partner Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) to investigate a bio-tech company. The two discover the company is re-animating corpses in a conspiracy that stretches far beyond petty crime. Mortis is asphyxiated at the bio-tech lab during a skirmish with an obese zombie biker but Bigelow uses the lab to quickly re-animate his partner. Will these two solve the case before Roger decomposes? How is Joe Piscopo's mullet so shapely and springy? Why is Vincent Price in this movie? Some of these questions will be answered next time at the Dreadphile Cinema Club!

Dead Heat lies somewhere on the spectrum of action, comedy, sci-fi and horror without being effective at any of those. It's a fun movie with really wonderful practical effects which include zombie makeup, hundreds of squibs and (of course) re-animated roasted ducks. Come for the horror, stay for Joe Piscopo's bad jokes. Dead Heat will be at Columbus Theatre on Thursday May 30th at 8PM. See you there. Grab your tickets below or sign up for a reminder.