 And welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten's Trash or Treasure. But before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we are drinking Lords of Death Hopped Rice Lager. Today we're going to bring to you 1988's Dead Heat, directed by Mark Goldblatt. And uh, he directed The Punisher with Dolph Lundgren. Oh yeah. That's right baby. He was the editor in tons of wicked movies. The Howling, Halloween 2, and then Terminator 1 and 2. Yeah. Like, fuck. Tons of stuff. Tons of Schwarzenegger movies. You had Commando? Yeah. And stars Treet Williams. What kind of name is that? Treet. Maybe it's supposed to be Tret. Tret? That makes sense. Give us some woman. Oh Treet! You're real Treet. He was in tons and tons of stuff, but we really want to mention that he is uncredited as a jogger in The Marathon Man. Fucking rights. Is it safe? Joe Piscopo was in this, and he was in SNL for a good four years during the 80s. And he was also in one of the best martial arts movies of all time with Chuck Norris Sidekicks. Chuck Norris kicks. He's all, wow, whoa, whoa, he's all spinning, whoa, whoa. Lindsey Frost is also in this, and she is in one abysmal piece of shit or movie called The Ring. The movie starts off with partners Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow, and they're called to this jewelry heist, and they show the two thief guys, and they're all wearing like those SNL type of executioner. But they get to the jewelry store and they start smashing all the cases and everything and start intimidating all of the people who worked here. Come on, lady, give it up! You cheap bitch! Cheap bitch! Up pulls the, like, almost the whole damn police force, and who's in charge, but Robert Picardo, who's the hologram doctor and voyager. He's also in the howling. Yeah, that's right. And they have a huge shootout, start shooting the shit out of these guys. They blow one of them up, and Roger kind of gets pissed off and he gets in a car. He ends up just running right into another one. The woman at the morgue, she's like, well, these guys, they've already been here. These guys have already been sewn up. What made them come to life? So it's a drug that Dante Pharmaceuticals has created. So Doug and Roger go to check out the Dante Pharmaceuticals. They get introduced to Randy James, who kind of, like, oversees the running of this place, and she shows them around and shows them the decompression chamber. Doug kind of stumbles upon this room where there's this carcass unveils it, and it's this weird biker looking guy with, like, three faces kind of all melding together. And he starts fighting this biker guy, beating this shit out of him with this, like, fiery extinguisher. Bung, bung. Roger, like, he just shoots the front desk guy, and he gets thrown into that decompression chamber and accidentally gets, the button gets pressed, and he dies. The cops and Rebecca show up to the scene to find out that Roger is now dead. While investigating, they stumble upon this weird machine, and she's kind of looking into it. And of course, there's a phone on the console. Yeah. That's how 80s it is. Every console has a phone on it. And she knows how to work it, too. She knows how to work it. Oh, this machine resurrects the dead and throws Roger on this machine, and they bring him back to life. He's still decomposing, and in 12 hours, he will be decomposed and no longer alive. So they have 12 hours to find out who's behind these robberies and who has created this resurrection machine. Right. And what's it all about? Yeah, and yeah, kind of how it all ties in together. Okay, so to get to the bad of this movie, right? The trash. The characters in this movie, even though you might think that they're pretty strong, they're actually not. They're pretty weak. Yeah, they're not really fleshed out very well. There's just basically Roger and Doug. They're not even that different, really. No, no. And they don't, they don't play off each other as well as they should. Not that well, really, you know. Yeah. Like, there's a lot of one-liners that don't seem to really land all that well. Especially on Joe Piscopo's part. Most of his one-liners are just like, oh, you're just like, was that supposed to be funny? Is that supposed to be bad? Like, you don't really know. Yeah. You should know. I know it's a joke, but it's just not all that funny. And there's also a lot of dead air like between them that could be filled with more stuff. More interaction between Doug and Roger, I think. Because like, yeah, like when Roger dies and Doug's in that chair and he's all depressed. Like, yeah, you kind of feel it, but there's not, when there wasn't enough there before to really make you kind of feel like, ah, that's shitty, you know, that he's dead. Like, you don't really care. Exactly, yeah. This movie is just fucking chocked full of plot holes all over the place. Like, everything about this movie is one giant plot hole, really. So Roger's dead and they find a resurrection machine which brings him back to life and nobody really seems to like, care or really dig into like, where did this machine come from? Or like, why is this here? And like, or wow, wow. And this big shootout happened at this place where there's this resurrection machine and like, after it was walking by, there's nothing happening and no one seems to care that shit just went down. Like, holy fuck. Randy, she just gets away. Like, they have to chase her down later. Like, she should have never left the fucking building. There's also a lack of a score or music to which is strange for an 80s movie. Yeah, and it's sort of... You can feel the hole that it leaves, right? Every time they start the car, that fucking sweetass, they should be like, Exactly, and they should just fucking cruise, but they don't and it leaves you wanting so much more. But at the end of the movie, the credits are that dead heat song, which is like, oh yeah, that's pretty good. Like why wasn't that in the movie? Exactly, they should have played throughout the entire thing, right, as the theme. Yeah exactly! What the fuck was that in the movie? I don't know. Oh Christ. Alright and that'll bring us to the treasure of this movie. The effects. Oh yeah. They look great like the like that first zombie you see the biker zombie with the three faces. Oh man I was like holy shit that's a fucking zombie. He looked great. Also there's that scene where they where they go to that butcher shop. The guy who owns the butcher shop he like pulls that lever and there's all that lightning and everything that starts making everything come to light. That mini resurrection machine on the ceiling. Yeah and like all the chickens and everything start moving and like everything. Yeah every fucking thing. That liver all goes into Roger's face. It all rolls down that counter. And all those ducks and everything. And there's that like cow like that skinned cow with no head walks in. They have to fight it? Yeah they have to fight it. It fucking looks great. It looks legit. Not once do you think oh that's fake that looks crappy. You didn't know it's like this kind of outlandish thing. Yeah. It looks real. It does. Yeah it looks great. Randy James melts like she fucking like melts into nothing. It's so good. That looks better than a lot of effects today. It rivals some of the it actually it rivals some of the best movies back then. It does yeah totally does. This movie has a lot of really cool cameos from people that just like whoa cool like the first one it knocked me on my ass. Bigelow finds his tape. It's like where's VHS tape? VHS tape. Let's pop it in. Vincent Price is on there. It's like holy shit. It's like oh man this it gives the movie like instant legitimacy. Master Poe is in this from Kung Fu. Yeah. And from Star Trek is in that episode of Whom Gods Destroyed. And Sub-Zero is in this from The Running Man. Hey Kellyanne. It's Sub-Zero. Now playing zero. What is that even mean? Playing zero. Sub-Zero is already below zero so wouldn't like anything above that be better? It's a good story to find out who made this resurrection machine and why it exists and who's funding it. It plays very well into the whole rich and poor right? Yeah you know the rich obviously have the money to not die. Yeah which is basically the theme of the movie. It has a lot of twists in it too right? Like a lot of the characters in this movie actually die. The main character of Roger dies in the first 20 minutes like what? Yeah so you're like fuck that's it for him but no not really. And then like you expect like okay fucking Bigelow he's gonna like get his revenge get his revenge for Roger. Yeah. Then just find him just dead in that fish tank hanging upside down like what? Suddenly he's just dead like I thought he was supposed to be the hero now. Well now he's not. And then you think okay well Randy James she's the only one left she's gotta be the hero and she dies too right? Like what the fuck? Like everyone's dying. Yeah and actually with Randy she was dead all along. Yeah. Which is cool. Even though the comedy doesn't always land. No. It's not a complete bust with the comedy there's enough that lands where it's worth it and it works with the action and the zombies just kind of it's a nice little mesh right? Exactly. And I love though how it plays into the vanity of the 80s like like Roger's dead and they tell him he has 12 hours before he completely fucking decomposes gotta make a stop to the drugstore to get makeup to make himself look like he's alive and he spends even more time like in the shower. Yeah. You got like a couple of hours why are you wasting time showering and like but nope he's gotta look good though right? It's the 80s man. So all in all I think we're gonna rate this movie. Treasure. It's a treasure. At face value this movie looks like it's gonna be a piece of shit right? You kind of look at it look at the cover dead heat like what the who wants to watch this piece of shit and we're kind of reluctantly watched and like oh man this is kind of a hidden gem it is a little treasure. Exactly. Don't judge a book by its cover right yet. So it is a treasure disguised as a trash. That's right. And until next time. Keep drinking. And dying. And leaving again. And dying again.