The premise of "Alien Dead" is that a space-born disease infected a bunch of bayou rednecks and after they finished up all the alligators they start eating the locals.Fred Olen Ray's "Alien Dead" is so bad that it quickly becomes hilarious.The acting is utterly terrible,only veteran actor Buster Crabbe can act.The makeup consists of Halloween masks for the male zombies and the women are mostly leggy hot blonds with white and black face paint.There is also a decent amount of gore including some cannibalistic feasts.I have seen plenty of awful zombie flicks including "The Chilling","Zombie Lake" or "Zombie Brigade" and I must say that "Alien Dead" is at least watchable,if you are in the right mood.That's why I give it 5 out of 10.

Not much blood or boobs. The Florida swamps are becoming infested by zombies that have, apparently, come from some sort of extraterrestrial shenanigans. It's up to the locals to stop or at least escape the terror. - - - Pretty much a reworking of "Attack of the Giant Leeches" that doesn't quite get over the hump from backyard production to amateur film. Fred Olen Ray, always liked him, tries hard and delivers some amusing scenes (the opening conversation is very Ed Wood-ian)and manages to keep the action going for the short running time. Still, the movie is too full of boring exposition and the action gets repetitive very quickly. There's entertainment to be had, I suppose, but it has the most value as a curious piece of Fred Olen Ray history. Not recommended.* out of 4

I must admit that I have this strange grudging respect for the ridiculously prolific and chronically ham-fisted schlock movie master Fred Olen Ray. Sure, a majority of Fred's flicks are total crap, but I still admire the tireless, albeit hopeless Mr. Ray for trying again and again and again to produce a halfway decent picture. I honestly think Fred gives his proverbial all to any given Grade Z dreckfest that he labors on; the key problem is Fred's so-called "all" doesn't amount to diddly squat quality wise. Still, like I said before, at least the guy tries."The Alien Dead" was Fred's second disastrously woebegone foray into pure cinematic sludge right after the still unreleased "The Brain Leeches" and it's probably one of the all-time worst pieces of witless'n'worthless celluloid swill Fred has ever regurgitated upon a hapless, unsuspecting public. the banal, no big freakin' deal plot copiously rips off both "Night of the Living Dead" and "Shock Waves": A fallen meteorite causes a bunch of bayou bumpkins to plumb mutate into ferocious, rot-faced, amphibious cannibalistic zombies who attack and devour lots of totally deserving hillbilly dorks and dorkettes in a heretofore sleepy and uneventful Florida swamp hamlet. Useless backwater sheriff Buster Crabbe (who looks amazingly trim and fit in his unfortunate final filmic fling) basically just takes up space and acts dumber than a tree stump. It's up to both snoopy newspaper reporter Ray Roberts and earnest game warden Mike Bonavia to save the day.Spectacularly shoddy and ramshackle, this agonizingly abysmal clinker represents an ungodly apotheosis of incredibly pitiful cinematic crumminess. We've got fumbling, clueless direction from the always dependably dreadful Mr. Ray (who also cameos as a doomed hick hunter). Then there's a sorry cast of washed-up has-beens and understandably obscure never-wheres who couldn't act their way out of a moldy wet paper bag. The choppy editing, lousy cinematography (the frequent excruciatingly slow fade-outs are especially crude while the strenuously drawn out slow-motion zombie attack is downright sad to behold), poor, scratchy, badly synced sound, lame, phony minimalistic make-up f/x, and comparably dismal (extremely less than) special f/x (the crashing meteorite resembles a large orange flair) are uniformly pathetic. Several cornball, intensely unlistenable country-and-western songs whine away on the soundtrack and a watery, off-key, annoyingly droning score likewise inflicts a massive headache on the luckless viewer. The really horrible campy dialogue, equally terrible and faltering attempts at deliberately dumb humor, and a wholly insufferable bunch of obnoxiously stupid redneck characters further diminish any entertainment value this turkey might have possessed. Keep your eyes peeled for an astonishingly obvious continuity gaffe involving a three-pronged pitchfork which magically sprouts an extra fourth prong after an old lady zombie gets impaled on it. Of course, there's plentiful, but weak gore (a dog snacks on a bisected corpse, zoms graphically nosh on limbs and entrails, victims spit up mouthfuls of blood as they're being snacked on, that sort of lame, humdrum nonsense) and even a little sprinkling of gratuitous female nudity courtesy of a skinny-dipping chick who gets assaulted by a zombie while swimming topless in a lake. In short, Fred Olen Ray's singularly screwy, cheerfully slipshod, and blatantly cruddy film-making anti-style is richly apparent in this early masterwork. In fact, if hideously maladroit cinematic offal was indeed a kind of warped, deviant and degenerate quasi-art form, then this smokin' stinkeroonie would be its proudly putrid platonic essence.

I always heard that this was the absolute worst zombie movie of all time, but I'd much rather watch this than Zombie Nightmare, Revenge of the Dead, or Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things... definitely. You could do a lot worse than watching this movie, which actually has some pretty fun moments. I mean, people that this film was made for will probably find it appealing no matter what anyone says about it; anyone that is looking for a serious horror movie in here probably doesn't realize that the title of the movie is "ALIEN DEAD", which makes ME laugh quite a bit. Eh.This film, which was made for $12,000 (and they used every penny of it), is about a meteor crashing and turning rednecks into zombies. The film suffers from a really grainy look and features horrible sound (which may have been cleaned up for the recent DVD release.. whoopty doo). The editing is quite awful; there are a few times when they cut to another scene while someone is talking (kind of like near the end of Invasion of the Blood Farmers when the cop is talking and picks up the phone and says "F..." and then it cuts to a scene of a guy driving -- what?!).The story is terrible, the "effects" are terrible. A person will get killed, but the camera cuts away really quickly and then shows the aftermath of blood being in a big hole in a woman's chest. Or another woman will get stabbed with a pitchfork, but you won't see it actually enter the woman -- you'll just see the pitchfork sticking out of her back. It's quite laughably bad, but at least they tried to give some gore, with some of the zombies chomping on entrails. The musical score is cheesy but good; however, they actually use real country songs to add "ambience" to the redneck surroundings, which is hilariously awful. When it was over, I can safely say I wasn't bored and I distinctly remember enjoying myself throughout the whole thing. However, it's kind of hard to write a really detailed review for this, as this flick is pretty much unmemorable when it's all said and done.