FILM FESTIVAL  October 17-19, 2008
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Director Mark Goldblatt in Attendance!
20th Anniversary Screening!
35mm print!
ONE SCREENING ONLY! Sunday, October 19 at 1:10 p.m.


DEAD HEAT
(US, R, 1988, 84 min)

Violent criminals who can’t be killed are shooting up Los Angeles, and the investigation leads LAPD detectives Roger Mortis (Treat Williams) and Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) to a mysterious pharmaceutical firm.  What they find shocks them and changes the course of their lives -- a high-tech "resurrection machine" that has been churning out a weird band of indestructible criminals, and which eventually transforms Roger into the walking dead!  Now the department’s most unstoppable cops must battle zombie hit men, a butcher shop gone berserk and the deceased industrialist (the legendary Vincent Price in one of his final film roles) who may hold the key to it all.  But can Roger solve his own homicide case before he completely decomposes?  Darren McGavin and Lindsay Frost co-star in this wild combination of explosive action thriller and gory zombie comedy directed by Mark Goldblatt (The Punisher, 1989) and featuring grisly make-up effects and monsters by Steve Johnson (Big Trouble in Little China, Species). 

Viewer’s Guide: Violence, gore and language.

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Mark Goldblatt

Mark Goldblatt is an Academy Award nominated, American film editor, and director.  A graduate of the London Film School, he is a member, and a former president, of the American Cinema Editors, as well as a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  He is the father of actor and director Max Goldblatt.  Goldblatt has edited over 30 films, including such notable genre titles as Halloween II (1981), The Terminator (1984), Predator 2 (1990), Pearl Harbor (2001), Starship Troopers (1997), True Lies (1994), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), The Howling (1981), Humanoids From the Deep (1980), Piranha (1978), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).  He is a 1992 Academy Award nominee for Best Editing for Terminator 2: Judgment Day.  He has also directed the film Dead Heat (1988) and an episode of Eerie, Indiana.  Goldblatt is a winner of Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films’ Saturn Award for Piranha (1978), and a Satellite Award for X-Men: The Last Stand, and was twice nominated for ACE's Eddie Award for his work on True Lies and X-Men.  He is a life-long film buff, and has always been a fan of horror and fantastic cinema, as well as many other diverse genres.