The Alien Dead (also known as Alien Dead) is a 1980 American horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray (The Tomb, Evil Toons, Super Shark), and the final screen appearance of former Flash Gordon serial star Buster Crabbe. Ray co-wrote the script with Martin Nicholas.
A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town, causing the people on the houseboat to become zombies. The zombies feed on the alligators in the swamp and when they run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. When the people start to disappear, a local scientist tries to figure out what’s happening and how to stop the zombies from killing more people.
” …the gore is surprising in what is essentially a 50s sci-fi monster movie transplanted to 1980; an elderly couple, after providing some comic relief with a squabble, are massacred by the creatures in broad daylight, with the husband being gutted and eaten alive (his dog even starts eating his innards!) and the wife impaled on a pitchfork! “Star” Buster Crabbe, he of 1930s serials and Flash Gordon himself, has limited screen time but makes the most of it as the local sheriff who spends more of his time playing cards than he does worrying about crimes. The bottom-of-the-barrel musical score becomes irritating after a while, but there is a break from the synthesizers to hear a good country bar band in the local watering hole.”
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Categories: 1980s, alien, zombie
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