Best movie of this year hands down!

Sick Product of a Sick System

best movie i've ever seen.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

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.

Here's another 80's gem from the king of cheese director Fred Olen Ray, in which one suspects the most costly item in its production was having the artwork made for its rental box. A meteor strikes a house boat deep in the swamp killing everyone aboard, but soon thereafter they come back to "life" as poorly made-up living corpses to munch on the living, whom for the most part just stand there and let them do it.The script, editing, acting and makeup effects are breath taking in how awful they are, yet its way too long and tedious to be unintentionally funny, life is too short to waste it watching a film like this. Only note worthy thing is that former "Flash Gordon" Buster Crabbe almost ended his career like a dying scream doing this one, fortunately it can at least be said that this wasn't his last film.1 out of 10, even fans of movies like "Plan 9 from Outer Space" will be appalled by this one, avoid it at all costs.

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.

Following in the footsteps of H.G. Lewis....following WAY BEHIND, comes Fred Olen Way with Alien Dead. This movie highlights the dangers of houseboating in Florida and shows people once and for all that people hit by metorites really do turn into zombies. Filmed locally here in Oviedo Florida and Rock Springs State Park now called Kelly State Park, Alien Dead illustrates the passive nature of Floridians in how they never run when being attacked by the undead... They just make the horrible face, scream and gently fall on the ground while the zombies chew them up for dinner.One might think that the horrible plot, video, sound, acting, lighting, etc. is strange enough, but what's even stranger is that half the movie shows people actually swimming in Florida water...something we locals haven't done for decades.This movie is destined to make the Something Awful Video lineup one day. Let us hope it happens before this wonderfully awful movie fades away into the sunset.Interestingly enough, the movie does have a big name, Buster Crabbe. Yes, the same Buster Crabbe from the Buck Roger's fame, playing the local sheriff who is followed around by his dorky deputy sidekick.And if the ending leaves you saying anything other than, "What the hell just happened?" then either you fell asleep, or worse...you actually did understand it.Ron Jaffe Orlando, Florida