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BGCOLOR="#FFFF99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>The Alien Dead</B></div> <div> <B>Aka: </B><I><B>It Fell from the Sky</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>(Underwater/Toxic/Zombies)                                       5****skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Lots of Blood * Violent * Strong Language * No Sexual Situations *</B></div> <div> <B>* Nudity * Very Gory * </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1980/Color/87 Min./Academy Home Entertainment & Genesis Home Video, Inc. & Firebird Pictures, Inc./ Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, The Tomb)</B></div> <div> <B>                 & Martin Alan Nicholas</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Fred Olen Ray & Martin Alan Nicholas </B></div> <div> <B>Music........ .......Franklin Sledge & Chuck Sumner </B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Chuck Sumner & Fred Olen Ray</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Henry Kaplan</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up Design by Allen Duckworth</B></div> <div> <B>Additional Music by the American Bluegrass Express, </B></div> <div> <B>                        Paul Jones and Sugar Lee</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae*</B></div> <div> <B>Sheriff Kowalski...Buster Crabbe (</B><I><B>Buck Rogers: Destination Saturn, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Tom Corman.........Ray Roberts</B></div> <div> <B>Shawn Michaels.....Linda Lewis</B></div> <div> <B>Miller.............Mike Bonavia</B></div> <div> <B>Deputy Campbell....Dennis Underwood</B></div> <div> <B>Emmett Michaels....George Kelsey</B></div> <div> <B>Doc Ellerbe...............Martin Alan Nicholas</B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Griffith.................Norman Riggins</B></div> <div> <B>Grocery Cashier......Edi Stroup</B></div> <div> <B>Paisley......................John Leirier</B></div> <div> <B>Krebon......................Rich Vogan</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Hawkins..........Ellena Contello</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Griffith.............Nancy Karnz</B></div> <div> <B>Pool Player..............Fred Olen Ray (</B><I><B>The Tomb</B></I><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The crash of a foreign object unleashes an underwater toxic zombie plague on a Florida swamp town. With precious little help from a swamp woman and less still from local authorities, a local reporter fails utterly to stem the plague. On the whole, this is a laughable and laughably likable attempt, as are most of Fred Olen Ray's cheap and crummy horror movies. Indeed, this is Olen Ray's best movie, despite all the adolescent hormone-inspired cheers for Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. Marked by very grainy film, typically lousy acting and consistently lousy make-up, this film likewise boasts a lousy script and delightfully lousy special effects. The kooky music doesn't help either. The ending is less a resolution than a timely farewell to what appears to be an isolated problem. Poor Buster Crabbe, the former Olympic gold medal winner and star of </B><I><B>Flash Gordon</B></I><B> must have felt sadly at home with this 50's quality effort. Fans of bad movies will love this one, which owes a lot to the brilliant French worst/best underwater zombie movie ever filmed, </B><I><B>Zombies' Lake</B></I><B> (even the title is awkward) and the almost as good/bad </B><I><B>Toxic Zombies</B></I><B>. In fact, the zombie with the fake eye has got to be a tip of the cap to the terrible make-up job in </B><I><B>Zombies' Lake</B></I><B>. Memorable line: "Eddie Rickenbacker was a son of a bitch and mind your own business!" Horror Calendar: Watch it on September 30.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Writing a September 30, byline, reporter Tom Korman notes that he works for a small town newspaper in Florida where nothing much ever happened until strange events changed everything. While looking for alligators in a swamp once teaming with them, Mr. and Mrs. Griffith find none. Disease? Pollution? Starvation? After locating one alligator and shooting it several times, Mrs. Griffith climbs into the water and disappears, despite her husband's scientific assurance that the gator is dead. Meanwhile, the Game Warden has caught an eighteen pound baby bass and wants it announced in the paper. At the same time, he invites the newspaper staff to a card game which is interrupted by a screaming Mr. Griffith who says a "rotten monster" got his wife. Ever since that houseboat sank on the swamp everything has changed. That same night, a robust looking German shepherd trots out for a very brief walk from which it doesn't return. The owner calls "Bull!" twice before she is dragged off by a hideous monster. Tom meanwhile meets the sassy swamp dweller Sean Michaels, daughter of old swamp rat Emmett Michaels. Tom would like to interview her father about the houseboat and other strange occurrences. He is invited to stay for dinner, during which Emmett babbles on about Eddie Rickenbacker, germ warfare, Indians, and giant mutant possum. During an after dinner walk, another local woman is pulled from a footbridge where Tom and Sean begin to make out until they discover Mrs. Griffith's mutilated body. Despite the Sheriff's misgivings and suspicion of Mr. Griffith for murder 1, Tom vows to investigate the swamp. The deputy is sent to the bar to bring in the plastered Griffith. The next day a veritable army of the cheap zombies tear a hen-pecked woodcutter in half (his dog eats his intestines) and pitchfork his wife without a word. While investigating the swamp, Tom and Sean narrowly escape a school of underwater Zombies and run into Sheriff Kowalski, who is now convinced a "Renegator" is responsible for the death. In a Jaws twist, the Sheriff puts a price on the renegator's head. The curious couple finds a piece of a zombie on their boat, which they take to the warden for inspection just as two drunken rednecks, Paisley and Krebon, head off to bag the big gator, but are immediately dumped and dragged off by the zombies. The frustrated Game Warden confides in the shop owner George that Doc Ellerbe found Mrs. Griffith's body drained of blood and appeared to have been sucked out. The Warden suggests they pay a visit to the crazy girl who claims something fell out of the sky near the houseboat. The bodies from the houseboat were never recovered. A nude platinum blonde swamp bather gratuitously is pulled under, just after  voyeur Deputy Campbell is called away to investigate strange happenings at Highway 17, where a young couple is set upon (she briefly escapes by jamming a Spanish comb in a zombie's face). Doc Ellerbe and friends listen as the catatonic Miss Hawkins describes how she and her boyfriend witnessed a meteor hit the houseboat and how her boyfriend, who dived in to help, turned instantly into a zombie. When she finishes her tale, she turns toward them revealing a progressing patch of zombification on her own face. As the team heads home to plan their attack, they see Doc's wrecked car surrounded by zombies and barely escape, losing Mr. Griffith to the zombie Doc Ellerbe before holing up in a cabin. During the battle with the zombies, they nearly lose Sean when they absentmindedly leave the door open. Warden Miller foolhardily attacks the zombies with a tiny molotov cocktail as Tom and Sean make their run through the typically torpid zombies to a boat and escape through waters teaming with zombies.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=26864318&siteid=39400660&bfpage=home" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=26864318&siteid=39400660&bfpage=home" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://www.dvdplanet.com/satellite/banners/generic2b_468X60.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT="DVDPlanet.com"></A>  </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>