Dead Heat: Treat Williams Underrated Horror Comedy

[@kleebod]

I'd completely forgotten about his movie. Brings back some memories! I loved it when I was a kid.

[@JRKonungrinn]

Lethal Weapon with zombies! Loved this movie!

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

Couldn't agree more and I only discovered this movie 3 years ago.

This and “The Hidden” truly defines 80’s excess. To think it was supposed to be ten times this violent. BTW the cop he takes the gun and motorcycle from is writer Shane Black, who played Hawkins in the original Predator, directed “The Predator” reboot and is this movie’s director’s brother.

[@tyroneraman6395]

RIP Treat Williams!

[@nicholasmiller5152]

You do not limit Darren McGavin to just the dad from A Christmas Story, especially in horror context. That is Carl Kolchak: the Night Stalker, whose two movies and short lived television show inspired the creation of X-Files, Supernatural, and other paranormal investigating monster chasing show. How dare you, sir! Give the Night Stalker his proper respect.

[@robertrootes]

I saw Dead Heat in the theater and freaking loved it

[@Diggy22]

I just finished watching Dead Heat. Honestly, it's a bit dark for me, but the practical effects were amazing.

[@enrkm85]

FINALY!! IV beed talking about this movie for YEARS!!

[@ericwolff2700]

I loved this movie. It's one of my top ten campy 80s movies. Buckaroo Banzai is another one of my favorites

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

RIP Treat Williams

[@slckb0y65]

kids nowadays don't know what they are missing by not getting this kind of absolute shlock fest anymore.

[@tecumsehcristero]

I saw this movie in 88 when I was 6. I've loved this movie for across 5 decades

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

One of the things I really love about this movie is that when one of the zombie jewelry robbers is about to toss his grenade and Joe Piscopo shoots it out of his hands just before it explodes He says UH OH like a toddler CRACKS ME EVERY TIME 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

One of my favorites. I’m always trying to get friends to watch this one.

[@WillieD]

This just popped up in my Amazon recommendations and holy shit I can't believe I've not seen this until just now. So good!!!!

[@tommyz1082]

First time I seen this movie was on wpix’s Shocktober lineup. They’d play horror movies every October, and I would watch every year.

[@night_speed]

The channel 11 eight o'clock movie was my favorite time of day growing up. Then on Sunday it was movies all day from around noon to 10. I can still hear the announcers voice in my head.

[@jakethet3206]

I don’t know WHERE you got the info that Joe Piscapo was “unusually buff” for this movie, but as a member of Gen X who was actually around for Joe’s heyday... he was, indeed, BUFF. It was his thing. He started pumping before even his SNL year. Yeah, he was a buff dude. OK?

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

I don't think the cover sucks I like the fact that it has a zombie hand holding up a police badge

[@night_speed]

Thank god for the WPIX Channel 11 8 o'clock movie in the 90s or i would have missed this one growing up.

[@PenjaminFranklyn]

Solid flick!

[@Shadowman4710]

"Kill that guy, won't you?" One of my favorite lines...ever.

[@Jaydogg222]

If only you had gotten it right...

[@comicbookninja5268]

This flick is so underrated.

[@TatianaRacheva]

I saw it as a kid, so the humor went over my head. The melting girl haunted me for years. I still remember it fondly, and would like to watch it again some day

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

The Chinese restaurant scene is one of my favorite scenes

[@haisaid]

Thanks for the upload!

[@corydeceased]

A movie that could only have existed in 1980s Reagan America, & a work of true genius. Also love the JBB shoutout

[@RavynAngelDarck]

Kolchak as the Body Doc in a zombie movie? Yeah, I'm in!!!!

[@wstine79]

How dare they cast living actors as zombies. That puts hard working dead actors out of work. Plus, zombie face is offensive. J/K 😃 Great video.

[@MrThenorwood]

The Revenant (2009) by D.Kerry Prior deserves some love. It didn't get a wide release but is a brilliant zombies horror comedy.

[@DannyDeee]

This video made Joblo anti-PC again... for now. For that, it earned my like!

[@judsongaiden9878]

2:07 Extract those stocks and shoulder those Uzis, maggots! 2:11 Only in an '80s action movie would anyone buy the idea that cops use hand grenades. They do use 37mm and 40mm launchers, though. 2:14 Notice how one of them is wearing the same style of coat worn by Michael Biehn in 'The Terminator' and Richard Crenna in First Blood - a Vietnam War-era OD green US officer's rain coat. It's cut like a classic British-style belted double-breasted trench coat, but it's classified as a rain coat. It's lighter weight compared to an actual trench coat and has no lining, making it ideal for rainy but not cold weather. 3:04 Notice how Treat's handling and reloading that pistol right-handed even though he's left-handed. I don't recall whether or not they pointed out that the character had a specific hand dominance. * *researches Dead Heat on IMFDB* * Nah, he's left-handed. Guess he just felt like reloading right-handed at least once just to show off some degree of ambidexterity. Two other left-handed actors who used Beretta 92s in action movies were Bruce Willis in Die Hard and Robert Patrick in T2. Being "mix-handed," myself (next best thing to ambidexterity), I tend to notice stuff like that. 4:00 Oh, now I remember (now that I see the full "reload animation," heh). He kinda fumbles it by switching hands. Yeah, don't do that. You'll just confuse yer brain. Nothin' wrong with shootin' left-handed (speaking from experience). It actually has more to do with the eyes than the hands. 4:46 Uzi versus MP5. This is a really good movie for us "gun guys." Well, except that no one really knows what they're doing. Unfold those stocks and shoulder those weapons, maggots! The SWAT guys from the Cyberdyne siege part of T2 - who were played by real SWAT officers - actually do it right. And at least one of them is left-handed and uses an MP5 *with the stock properly extracted* AND he *fires from the shoulder while aiming!* We also get to see him do an "HK slap" in left-handed configuration. 4:54 Don't ever hold a Micro Uzi like that IRL. Only in movies do we see people do that. You run the risk of messing up various fingers and thumbs whether you shoot left-handed or right-handed. The Micro Uzi is intended to be fired from the shoulder with the stock unfolded and with the support hand clasped around the shooting hand. That's also how Ingram SMGs are meant to be fired. In movies, no one knows what a stock is for. Sometimes, the stocks are removed for no apparent reason. In T1, the Terminator took the stock off his AR-18 presumably to make it more easily portable. But he's a cyborg, so we can assume that he can fire a conventional rifle in a stable fashion with or without a stock just because of superhuman dexterity or whatnot. 5:11 When I first saw this as an '80s kid in the '80s (with a mullet), that walking beef slab kinda made me hungry. XD 6:44 This came out in between T1 and T2, but Arnie (being an actual biker like Dan Aykroyd) did some motorcycle scenes in T1, so we have to give props to Arnie before Treat.

[@brianoconnell6459]

The joke you might have missed is the straight laced cop is named Roger Mortis. As in Rigor Mortis, a condition that usually befalls the dead.

[@thatlittlevoice6354]

I love this flick. This and The Revenant are great undead movies.

[@brandonmuse5532]

I remember trying to watch this on HBO at night as a kid

[@eddead4235]

Treat in this and deep blue is a treat

[@jerryschramm4399]

Probably the best movie that featured Treat Williams was "Prince of the City", a saga of police corruption, angst and a very gritty New York City. It would make a great duet with "Serpico".

[@DifficultFlannel]

Rest in peace, Treat Williams.

[@Its__Dark__]

This sounds like the kind of movie Dylan Dog should have been.

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

I didn't grow up with DEAD HEAT either I was in my late 20's possibly even 30's when I saw it But I can honestly say I wish I grew up with it. I was born on June 19th 1987 So I could very easily see myself as a child watching it. Although I didn't I L❤❤❤❤ THE HELL OUT OF DEAD HEAT

[@lazarussoul8221]

Imagine a sequel to this movie.....now....

[@Sidragrosm]

This was a Blast, yes - I remember it fondly! (Kudos for standing up for it - and all else you folks do!) But for FUCK'S SAKE..! They could have found a better use for Critical Bill (Treat Williams) dammit!!! Funny as he is, he plays nasty a HELL of a LOT better than funny! (IMHO, anyway... if you've seen him in Devil's Own or in Thing to do in Denver when your dead, you KNOW what I mean...)

[@Diggy22]

R.I.P. Treat Williams 🙏🏽

[@gringodingo2602]

love this movie. and the comparisons to lethal weapon are seem more than warranted, especially when you know that the movies writer, shane black, is the brother of terry black, writer of dead heat. i have said before to friends, imagine if they had combined those efforts.

[@gkprivate433]

a very entertaining movie. I love near the end when they know they are going to die, but they say F you for now and ever now or something like that and go out in a blaze of glory

[@adam-xt8te]

It's my favourite movie for 25 years :)) The other is The Return of The Living Death 1

[@DarkManSonian]

I had a ski night last night. Pretty pretty pretty good

[@robertdochter277]

You forgot to mention that "Dad" was also Kolchack.

[@virgil3241]

Always loved this movie for some reason, havent seen it for decades

[@leewright1]

Only film I saw with Piscopo in where he didn't seem bizarrely 'jacked' was that one with Danny DeVito, "Wise Guy's"? Had Cyndi Lauper's dad in it.

[@themadsamplist]

Great movie!

[@geligniteandlilies]

It's rewatch value is pretty high.

[@davidsierra7031]

Available on Tubi app.

[@svenleeuwen]

2:19 Let me guess, the captain has the mayor breathing down his neck?

[@CEOofBoneitis]

Hell yeah! I feel like I’m the only person who saw this!

[@DefConprime28]

@6:51 be careful how you say horror .... I get crap for saying it that way too

[@kakthehak]

Burned my VHS copy out..😂

[@shannonolivas9524]

If you asked me which of the two was going to become undead, I'd just take one look at their names and be able to tell ya.

[@yeoldenew]

Hell year Lois!

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

Is it just me or does this guy doing the review sound like The middle aged Peter Parker from another dimension in SpiderMan Into The SpiderVerse

[@charlesiheme4582]

I love this movie 😁

[@thetreblerebel]

What a movie..

[@nagymonika177]

Dead heat

[@nicksothep8472]

I absolutely love this movie, but I skipped it too because of the unforgivably bad cover art for so many years. For what it is it deserves a straight 10 outta 10, minus 10 because of the cover art though! 😅 ☠️

[@tomhahnl1927]

I guess I'll skip this one ;-)

[@DeathbySkullfxxx]

Got the wink. But truly. For the practical fx alone... one should watch this. The zombie v zombie shootout is a particular fave moment since neither can shoot the other to death

[@beejay271]

Joe Piscopo almost single-handedly ruined this movie. That dude was absolutely NOT funny and every line he had was a "(not)witty" comment. Other than that I really liked this film and actually own a copy of it😁

[@alenbacco7613]

The anti swj stuff at the end was dumb. Doesn't make me want to watch the movie any less but makes me think less of the uploader.

[@xenos_n.]

Was pretty cringe considering nobody said anything about that stuff, it's like it was stewing in his brain because of that tweet and he had to insert it into a review for no reason.