i must have seen a different film!!

Great Film overall

Good concept, poorly executed.

Best movie ever!

WARNING: This review may contain some spoilers, so be careful a little bit.The Alien Dead is without a doubt one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life, this movie really goes to show you that Fred Olen Ray isn't that great of a director. Where to begin with this crap-hole, this movie is about a so-called zombie invasion obviously killing people, but this time in a small redneck town. This crap-hole has some of the worst acting I've ever seen in a long time, the non- existent special effects top with god-awful blood effects, the horrible music, pretty much this movie screams "trash" in all levels. Did I forgot to tell you that this movie has some of the worst endings of all time? Yeah, overall The Alien Dead is without a doubt the most godawful pointless boring movie I've ever seen in my entire life, I honestly dare you to find me a movie that's worse than The Alien Dead. Wish I can rate this movie a 0 but unfortunately until that option is available, a 1 out of 10 will have to do from now.

Spoiler alert: I describe what happens during a zombie attack by one of the female zombies. Tom Corman is a journalist working for the local paper. He takes a story on the disappearance of Mrs. Griffith who gets swallowed by something in the swamp. The Griffiths are a pair seen hunting on a boat in the beginning of the film. I'm not sure why they are hunting at night with a flash light and not a strobe light since, this is way after 1931 when the strobe light was invented, and I'm sure they can afford something like this. I found this prologue to the film to be clever. Great beginning with music that is synonymous of an old twilight zone episode and the music just gets better as the film rolls. Referencing, perhaps, the kind of music Lucio Fulci uses a lot in his films. This film tries to indicate a zombie race of an alien life force in the opening scenes, but enters a dimension of idiocy instead. In one scene Tom is too dumb to pull his shoes from the guck they are in when he steps in the swamp. Why would he step in the swamp in his new shoes anyways? Something is eating up the gators in the swamp. Fred Ray adds some interesting twists N turns to this film. Again, this film I think tries to be like Fulci's Zombi in places such as, when Jimmy is cutting wood and the viewer sees the zombies walking out of the woods. It's cool here that we see what the zombie sees in some shots by Fred Ray. Sadly, the zombies appear to look more like a group of people in a cult. The sheriff's logic is that "sense there are mosquito's in the swamp, let's go shoot up the city." The film is playful at times, but why on earth is Miller going fishing when it looks like a storm is moving in? The dialogue in this film is silly. Like when Gordy and Miller are talking in the bait shop about the corpse. This seems like the two are taking an acting course and practicing their class project together. During the jump cuts Cambell just stands there. For example, when we see him looking at the beautiful woman skinny dipping. Fred Ray had a chance to make a few scenes awesome. But, there isn't any time left by the time he decides to make one couple, in one scene, when after their car breaks down, lunch-meat. This is so slow paced that you could have attended there funeral and returned and they still wouldn't be dead yet. In this man-eater scene we see the woman sucking on a detached hand. Though you don't see the zombies with a saw and the hand looks cleanly sawed through. The lady runs into the woods, and then the zombie is right there. You wonder how fast that zombie can run. I like the idea of a summary being explained within a film. Awesome job by Fred Ray here. Taking the story of Mrs. Hopkins, and describing the meteorite revival of the dead. Later, in the final scenes. When Miller lights the gun powder and throws it this would blow out before anything could be ignited. Then Miller is seen being tackled. However, the clip before shows zombies far away. Then we see him strung up like a pig. Possibly referencing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper, 1974. It's incredible how these Alien zombies know how to do this that fast. Where did they get supplies Mr. Fred Ray? All in all a fun classic zombie movie that shouldn't be taken too seriously!

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/

if you like crappy zombie movies like "zombie lake" or "zombie death house" or "revenge of the dead" then you're an idiot because those movies suck. this movie is one of those movies, but much much better. there's a good amount off zombies and gore, and it doesn't stay boring for very long. oh, and there's nudity. which is always good. now i'm not saying this movie is on par with "dawn of the dead" or "zombi 2" or any zombie movies of that caliber, but it's a fun watch and good if you love zombies. so if you want a crappy zombie movie with lots of gore and some boobies, don't get "zombie lake" or the other movies i mentioned at the top, get this one. worth the watch.