THE ALIEN DEAD

1979

USA

Alternate Titles:
It Fell from the Sky
Swamp of the Blood Leaches

Directed By:
Fred Olen Ray

Produced By:
Fred Olen Ray
Chuck Sumner

Written By:
Martin Alan Nicholas
Fred Olen Ray

Cinematography By:
Fred Olen Ray
Gary Singer

Special Effects By:
Fred Olen Ray

Music By:
Franklin Sledge
Chuck Sumner

Editing By:
Mark Barrett

Cast:
Buster Crabbe, Raymond Roberts, Linda Lewis,
George Kelsey, Mike Bonavia, Dennis Underwood,
John Leinier, Rich Vogan, Martin Alan Nicholas,
Norman Riggins, Nancy Kranz, Elena Dontella,
Shelley Vaughan, Fred Olen Ray, Chuck Sumner

Review from Official Splatter Movie Guide Vol. II
by John McCarthy
"A Meteor crashes in the Florida swamps and brings
back the dead as flesh-eating ghouls. This is
Ray's second feature (after THE BRAIN LEACHES) so you
know what to expect. Primitive edits and fades vie
for attention with out-of-sync sound, flubbed lines,
amateur makeup, and gratuitous T&A. Veteran Crabbe and the
novice "actors" ham it up with equal enthusiasm.
(One of them looks like Colonel Sanders' twin brother!)
Intentional comedy includes sick jokes and Cormanesque surnames.
The nonsense is punctuated by facial mutilation, cannibalism, gut-munching,
and dismemberment. A dog chows down on a bisected
corpse. An old woman is skewered on a three-tined
pitchfork - and four prongs burst out her back!
A spear gun figures in what passes for a
hair-raising finale. Part NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD,
part ZOMBIE LAKE, all bad. Another great party film
from the schlockmeister who gave us
HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS."

Review from Zombie
by Allan Bryce
Film Quality: * (out of 5)
Gore Content: * (out of 5)
"Most of the budget of this $5000 cheapie from
the notorious Fred Olen Ray (it was Fred's second
movie after THE BRAIN LEACHES) went to its star,
veteran matinee idol Buster Crabbe. It was Buster's last
film, so he probably deserved it. Fred himself wrote
the dreadful script, which concerns an alien force landing
on Earth via meteorite and transforming people into flesh-hungry
living dead. Shot in Florida, it has a fair
amount of amateur-night gore, including a memorable sequence
where a woman is skewered on a three-pronged
pitchfork - and four prongs burst out her back! Trivia
buffs might like to note that the characters are
named after Roger Corman associates (Sheriff Kowalski etc).
If you enjoyed ZOMBIE LAKE, then you might just
be able to sit through this. Others should stay clear."

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