The Alien Dead (1980)

   
Produced, Directed, Special Effects & Cinematographed by: Fred Olen Ray

Written by: Fred Olen Ray & Martin Alan Nichols

Starring:

Buster Crabbe .... Sheriff Kowaski
Raymond Roberts .... Tom Corman
Linda Lewis .... Shawn Michaels
George Kelsey .... Emmet Michaels
Mike Bonavia .... Miller Haze
Dennis Underwood .... Deputy Campbell

Release Date: Supposed Theatrical: June 1, 1980; Sitges Film Festival: November 28, 2003

Rating:

 

A meteor carrying an alien parasite crashes in the swamp of Bayou. This invader re-animates the corpses of people exposed to it and they kill and eat many wildlife their and then eat people nearby their area.
The local county sheriff assumes that there is a hungry alligator in the swamp but suddenly they all encounter the creatures that look like people as they plan to devour the small community and grow at an alarming rate.

 

Oh god how bad can you get?! This movie was a complete joke as well as a bore.
I dont know if this was Fred Olen Ray's idea of making a tribute to those old B&W sci fi horror flicks but it doesn't work at all plus it's made on a bad budget as well as badly edited.
This was made before movie's went direct-to-video because there weren't enough viewers liking it cause it's so bad but this probably didn't play in cinema's for very long. However, there are many interesting camera shots on the cast playing the living dead walking in the swampy forest and attacking their victims but that's about it.
I billed this one just as bad as Don't Go In the Woods.

The cast couldn't act their way out of a wet paper bag even if they were tortured to. It's way too corny and mellodramatic.
Buster Crabbe
who was famous for his Billy the Kid parts in films can't even carry his weight with this one as a dimwitted Sheriff and should be ashamed of his work.
Dennis Underwood
as his dipstick deputy is just as lame brained.
Mike Bonavia
seems to pull off okay but really is nothing special but better than the rest of the cast here.

A woman is topless and fully breasted swimming in a pond at the swamp.

A farmer is half eaten
The farmers wife is stabbed by a pitch fork
People are eaten alive showing body parts and insides. Although it looks gross the effects are bad.

The music by Franklin Sledge and Gary Singer is incredibly annoying with the synthesizer playing and very unroriginal too.