What movie am I thinking of??

September 16, 2006 8:11 AM

MovieFilter: Too many zombie movies to choose from, what one am I thinking of? There's...

OK. Like most of these questions my memories are fuzzy and I may be mixing two movies together. The timeframe I'm thinking of is early 90's maybe late 80's. The movie focuses on re-animating the dead, so naturally I always assumed that it was "the re-animator". But I just rented that... good, but not it.

I think there was some sort of detective story in it? One of the characters may have been a cop? When the dead were brought back they would only live for a certain amount of time (a week) and then they would litterally fall appart in a pile of parts. Also, I don't think they craved brains...

posted by Mark5four0 to media & arts (9 comments total)

Dead Heat?
posted by Lokheed at 8:23 AM on September 16, 2006

Dead and Buried?

Features a cop...

Definitely NOT Return of the Living Dead... classic which features the craving of brains:

"I can smell you brains, Tina. I love you Tina. I want to eat your brains."

Also, if you like old Zombie movies, Beyond.
posted by cup at 8:32 AM on September 16, 2006 [1 favorite]

You could be thinking of Cast a Deadly Spell or Witch Hunt. They were supernatural detective movies, and I think at least one has re-animation.

Dead and Buried sounds closer, though. It was early 80's.
posted by adipocere at 8:50 AM on September 16, 2006

I'm guessing it was Cast a Deadly Spell ... sounds like it.
posted by jbickers at 8:53 AM on September 16, 2006

The Beyond is a great flick, but if you are going to reccommend a Lucio Fulci zombie movie then it really has to be Zombi 2 aka Zombie. It has one of the greatest zombie scenes ever - underwater zombie vs. a great white shark. (But that's definitely not the movie Mark5four0 is looking for.)
posted by Lokheed at 8:55 AM on September 16, 2006

Your description made me think of The Hidden for some reason. Although the people aren't dead when they're taken over, but they don't survive very long once they are. Kyle MacLachlan plays an "FBI agent".
posted by FreezBoy at 10:06 AM on September 16, 2006

Oh God... It was Dead Heat. I can't believe the movie I was thinking of starred Joe Piscopo and Treat Williams. Thats almost depressing. But I guess the Zombie/Buddy Cop genre can only go so far.

But thanks anyway guys, all these movies sem awesome. I'll have to see them soon.
posted by Mark5four0 at 10:29 AM on September 16, 2006

what's wrong with joe piscopo?
posted by jmarq at 12:09 PM on September 16, 2006

Dead Heat is great. I love the scene where the animals in a butcher shop come to life.
posted by brundlefly at 8:26 PM on September 17, 2006