The Alien Dead

1980 "The Bodies Are Dead: The Remains Live On…"
2.8| 1h14m| R| en
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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.

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Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!
SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Boba_Fett1138 Of course this is quite a bad movie but it also was far from the worst thing I have ever seen. The movie was at least entertaining to watch throughout.You have simply some bad movies and then you have some bad movies that are so bad to watch that they actually become good and fun to watch. This is foremost the case with this movie. It basically has a non-existent story and the movie has a very amateur like look and feeling to it. The acting is horrible, the dialogs are laughable but the movie does never bore and is actually quite fun to watch. And let me tell you, this really isn't the case with all the movies within this genre.Don't pay too much attention to this movie its title, it's really a zombie-flick in essence. There is nothing too original about this movie or its concept and it's obvious that Fred Olen Ray watched a lot of other well known genre movies to use as a source for his 'inspiration'. But it has basically everything in that that a zombie-movie lover wants from the genre. There is some blood and gore, though it's nothing too impressive looking but how could it really with the budget these guys had to work with.It was quite fun to still see Buster Crabbe in this. He once played Tarzan, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, so back in his days he was quite the star. A lot of actors from those old days however ended up in movies like this, no matter how talented or big they were once.This is basically what a movie would look like if a bunch of friends who had a couple of beers say, why don't we go and make a zombie-flick? Nothing about this movie truly impresses and it's a weak movie in basically every aspect but you'll nevertheless have fun watching it. 4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
lordzedd-3 I got to admit, I'm a big of Fred Olen Ray, love him to death and most of his movies. So I don't blame him for the train wreck of the Alien Dead, I blame the co-writer Martin Nicholas who must have saved his life in 'Nam or something for Fred to keep working with him. He's a terrible writer and not a great actor. Anyway, I think I know Buster Crabbe died, he died of shame after watching ALIEN DEAD. That's right shame, this isn't grade Z, it's ZZ--. Here's why, one, they never showed the meteor that caused all this. Two, some of the zombies looked more like aliens rather then rotting humans and the one that did look human didn't look like they were under water for very long which means the Sheriff isn't doing his job right. The girls are pretty but that's not enough. It all ends up in a very weak climax that doesn't make any sense to me or any one with half of brain. THE BLACK HOLE
drhackenstine 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.
doom-of-our-time I often assume that given enough booze and die hard awful movies watchers like myself, anything can be enjoyed. I'll tell you a tale of a time long ago (last summer actually) when i was a young naive fool who was still grabbing up terrible movies by random hoping for a gem or at least to have a good laugh with the friends. And then i found alien dead, Karma, divine retribution, whatever the cause we rented this terrible film. It was the first time we had to repeatedly fast forward through a movie praying for a quick end and with no hope in sight. The movie had very little to do with aliens and less to do with the dead. It was so poorly done and taken so seriously. It hurt me, in my heart, my soul even. I'm less of a human being now and i wish to be that innocent young man again who believed anything could be good. Damn you Alien dead, damn you.