"Remember the good old days when guns killed people?"

One of my Christmas presents this year was a record player that allowed you to record LPs to a blank CD. Thanks to that, I was finally able to fufill my own request for a rip of Ernest Troost's score for the 1988 buddy-cop/Zombie film "Dead Heat," which I had on vinyl but couldn't rip until this came along.

Roger Mortis (Treat Williams) and Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) are a pair of cops who run into a strain of robbers who can't be killed with bullets. When a drug that acts as a preservant for corpses is found on them (along with the fact that the coroner had seen them before when she vivisected them), the trail leads to Dante Pharmaceuticals, where Doug discovers a strange machine - and an ugly biker zombie guarding it. The ensuing scuffle sends Roger into an espyhixiation room used to humanely kill dogs for testing purposes, and Roger is suffocated when a black-gloved man switches the room on. Doug and the coroner (Clare Kirkconnel), Roger's ex, discover that the machine can bring people back to life, so they throw Roger on it. When they discover that the re-animted corpses have a 12-hour lifetime before they completely decompose, Roger, Doug, and the daughter (Lindsay Frost) of a deceased billionaire (Vincent Price) who's tied up in it somehow must find out who Roger's killer is before he becomes worm food.

Troost composes a very nice score that bounces between pulse-pounding action to drama with the senses of death and resurrection. As a bonus, I included a DVD rip of the movie's theme song, "Dead Heat," which wasn't included on the LP. I know the music sounds less than CD quality, and if anyone can remaster it, you will get my thanks and credit on the ensuing re-post. Enjoy!

Tracks:
1. Main Titles (01:32)
2. Resurrection Room Fight (04:11)
3. The Robbery (01:00)
4. The Resurrection Room (01:48)
5. Dead Meat (01:37)
6. The Tomb (01:42)
7. Zombie Attack (02:07)
8. Roger's Ride To Freedom (01:03)
9. Roger's Resurrection (01:38)
10. Breaking The Code (00:43)
11. "I'm Not Bleeding" (01:00)
12. The Butcher Shop (02:05)
13. Finding Bigelow (01:09)
14. The Library (01:46)
15. Roger Storms Dante Labs (02:09)
16. The Jewelry Robbers (01:39)
17. Roger Emerges (01:15)
18. Resurrection Room Showdown (01:53)
19. The Shoot Out (01:57)
20. "We Need Your Help" (00:59)
21. End Titles (01:15)
22. Dead Heat (performed by Phil Settle) (03:13)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=951GMP5A (John Hartigan has completely remastered the score. Special thanks to him for the nice job on the music and the cover scan!)