George Taylor
Williams and a mugging Piscopo are cops who run into an evil plan to bring the dead back to life to do another's bidding. While the SFX are great, especially when all the animals in a chinese restaurant, including half pigs, come to life, the story is mundane. Just ok.
jeremy-david-kuehnau
The title says it all, a 80's buddy cop film mixed with a dash of army of darkness. Someone is reanimating the dead and using them to commit crimes.When a detective is killed on the job, his friend uses a machine to bring him back from the dead. Now the chase is on as they search for the person responsible.
Aldo Renato
I saw this movie on the late show on a local TV station. Nothing else looked interesting, so I stayed with it. Only a character played by Vincent Price could conceive such a device and process! Despite some truly disgusting sequences (the butcher shop fight, the zombification of several characters and the heartbreaking ending), this was a pretty good movie. Not perfect, but a great way to spend two hours in the wee hours of the night. A good cast (the always solid Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo of Saturday Night Live for comic relief, Lindsay Frost in a tragic role, Keye Luke, and, of course, Vincent Price). This movie earns its R rating for some truly graphic violence and gross out scenes. Again, an interesting concept that could (should) possibly see its way to a sequel...??!!
mattressman_pdl
Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo are two, now get his, mismatched cops. Joe Piscopo is Bigelow, a macho, insensitive lug who only cares about himself...maybe. Treat Williams is Mortis, a kind, intuitive detective with a promising career ahead of him...until his latest case lands him on a slab. Fortunately, the case provides them with a means to bring Mortis back. Now, Bigelow and an undead Mortis race to find Mortis' killer before it's too late...(or perhaps it already is) The film tries hard to be funny, and it is, in certain moments. The two lead actors have a kind of chemistry and the cast of character actors are dynamite (including Darren McGavin, Vincent Price, Robert Picardo, and Key Luke) but it is the genre-mixing which steals the show. The butcher shop scene is hilarious and sick, a good indication of where the movie would have went if more freedom had been extended toward the filmmakers. But it remains a neat little flick for the horror lovers and the action buffs everywhere.Hopefully more and more people will discover this title, but until then, it has a small cult audience. Don't let that stop ya, seek it out. It won't change your life, but it ought to give you a diverting way to spend an hour and a half.
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