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The Alien Dead
A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. A local scientist tries to figure out what's happening to people once they start disappearing.
Release : | 1980 |
Rating : | 2.8 |
Studio : | Firebird Pictures, |
Crew : | Director, Writer, |
Cast : | Buster Crabbe |
Genre : | Horror Comedy Science Fiction |
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Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
The premise of "Alien Dead" is that a space-born disease infected a bunch of bayou rednecks and after they finished up all the alligators they start eating the locals.Fred Olen Ray's "Alien Dead" is so bad that it quickly becomes hilarious.The acting is utterly terrible,only veteran actor Buster Crabbe can act.The makeup consists of Halloween masks for the male zombies and the women are mostly leggy hot blonds with white and black face paint.There is also a decent amount of gore including some cannibalistic feasts.I have seen plenty of awful zombie flicks including "The Chilling","Zombie Lake" or "Zombie Brigade" and I must say that "Alien Dead" is at least watchable,if you are in the right mood.That's why I give it 5 out of 10.
Not much blood or boobs. The Florida swamps are becoming infested by zombies that have, apparently, come from some sort of extraterrestrial shenanigans. It's up to the locals to stop or at least escape the terror. - - - Pretty much a reworking of "Attack of the Giant Leeches" that doesn't quite get over the hump from backyard production to amateur film. Fred Olen Ray, always liked him, tries hard and delivers some amusing scenes (the opening conversation is very Ed Wood-ian)and manages to keep the action going for the short running time. Still, the movie is too full of boring exposition and the action gets repetitive very quickly. There's entertainment to be had, I suppose, but it has the most value as a curious piece of Fred Olen Ray history. Not recommended.* out of 4
The Alien Dead is a stupid, wretched movie. I recently saw the DVD release of it, and even though it wasn't hard to sit through, I still found myself hating it all the way through. The title is mis-leading, since there is no "alien" action, and barely no gore. I did enjoy the awful bad acting. Or maybe it was over-acting. Or maybe fabulous bad acting. Whatever, it was the pits. But fun. And thats all the film had to offer, to us bad movie lovers, anyway. The ugly looking movie is about zombies terrorizing a redneck community. The zombies are yer common-folk infected with that there radiation from one uh them space craft hoobajoobas. Or something. The zombies are awful (maybe worse than Curse Of The Cannibal Confederates), the setting ugly, actors nasty, but god-bless those awful lines! It's what made this dreck watchable. The gore is slim. One guy is eaten in half by the monsters, later a dog starts eating his carcass, and even though the guy is dead and half of him is missing, the other half (waist up) is breathing. What the hell. Mindless beatnik horror music is played in other horror or attack scenes, usually with no other audio coming from the characters on the screen. I love bad '80's horror (House Of Death, Zombie Nightmare, Grotesque, Pieces, Unhinged, Forever Evil, Demonwarp...see these before this) but this just had nothing to offer. I think it may have been fun to see in the early '80's at the drive-in...or maybe not. Features an old woman stabbed with a pitchfork and thats basically the violent highlight. And the ending will leave you pist. If you must watch, drink beer. One star.
Following in the footsteps of H.G. Lewis....following WAY BEHIND, comes Fred Olen Way with Alien Dead. This movie highlights the dangers of houseboating in Florida and shows people once and for all that people hit by metorites really do turn into zombies. Filmed locally here in Oviedo Florida and Rock Springs State Park now called Kelly State Park, Alien Dead illustrates the passive nature of Floridians in how they never run when being attacked by the undead... They just make the horrible face, scream and gently fall on the ground while the zombies chew them up for dinner.One might think that the horrible plot, video, sound, acting, lighting, etc. is strange enough, but what's even stranger is that half the movie shows people actually swimming in Florida water...something we locals haven't done for decades.This movie is destined to make the Something Awful Video lineup one day. Let us hope it happens before this wonderfully awful movie fades away into the sunset.Interestingly enough, the movie does have a big name, Buster Crabbe. Yes, the same Buster Crabbe from the Buck Roger's fame, playing the local sheriff who is followed around by his dorky deputy sidekick.And if the ending leaves you saying anything other than, "What the hell just happened?" then either you fell asleep, or worse...you actually did understand it.Ron Jaffe Orlando, Florida