Alien Dead is a 1980 American horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray

Fred Olen Ray

Fred Olen Ray is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and cinematographer.-Biography:He is the producer, director, and screenwriter of low to medium-budget feature films in many genres, including horror, science fiction, action/adventure, softcore sex films and crime dramas...

, and the final screen appearance of Buster Crabbe

Buster Crabbe

Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s.-Birth:...

. Ray co-wrote the script with Martin Nicholas.

Plot

A meteor

METEOR

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 strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town, causing the people on the houseboat to become zombie

Zombie

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s. The zombies feed on the alligator

Alligator

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s in the swamp

Swamp

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 and when they run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. When the people start to disappear, a local scientist

Scientist

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 tries to figure out what's happening and how to stop the zombies from killing more people.

Cast

• Buster Crabbe
  Buster Crabbe
  Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s.-Birth:...
  
   as Sheriff Kowalski
• Raymond Roberts as Tom Corman (billed as Ray Roberts)
• Linda Lewis
  Linda Lewis
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   as Shawn Michaels
• George Kelsey as Emmet Michaels
• Mike Bonavia as Miller Haze
• Dennis Underwood as Deputy Campbell
• John Leinier as Paisley
• Rich Vogan as Krelboin
• Martin Nicholas as Doc Ellerbee (as Martin Alan Nicholas)
• Norman Riggins as Mr. Griffith
• Nancy Kranz as Mrs. Griffith
• Shelley Youngren as the Angry Wife