Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.
- police
- undead
- resurrection
- zombie
- zombification
- buddy cop
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Treat Williams
Det. Roger Mortis
Joe Piscopo
Det. Doug Bigelow
Lindsay Frost
Randi James
Darren McGavin
Dr. Ernest McNab
- Vincent Price — Arthur P. Loudermilk
- Robert Picardo — Lt. Herzog
- Martha Quinn — Newscaster
- Keye Luke — Mr. Thule
- Clare Kirkconnell — Rebecca Smythers
- Mel Stewart — Captain Mayberry
- Shane Black — Patrolman
- Pons Maar — Pool Zombie
- Professor Toru Tanaka — Butcher
- Tom Nolan — Jonas
- Lew Hopson — Whitfield
- Directed
- Mark Goldblatt
- Written
- Terry Black
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 241 ratings
- Studio
- New World Pictures, Helpern / Meltzer
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