The Alien Dead showtime • QUEUE DE BETON TRAILER

• QUEUE DE BETON TRAILER restored form original negative

QUEEN OF DIAMONDS and THE BLOODY CHILD in new 4K restorations courtesy of the The Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation

but everything else remains the same: The 10 strangers lured there by pretext

Audio commentary by film critic Tim Lucas

The Alien Dead showtime • QUEUE DE BETON TRAILERFilmed over a period of two years starting in 1973 deep in the swamps of Oviedo, Florida, THE ALIEN DEAD (1980) barely squeezed by on its meager shoestring budget of $12,000. Graduating to 16mm color film from his earlier B&W effort, THE BRAIN LEECHES (1978), burgeoning filmmaker Fred Olen Ray crafted an astonishingly crude tale of aquatic zombies and the characters who would become their victims. In what would later become a trademark of Ray's work,