The House of the Dead (also known as Alien Zone) is a 1978 American anthology horror film directed by Sharron Miller, and the only feature film Miller has directed. The film's ensemble cast includes John Ericson, Ivor Francis, Judith Novgrod, Burr DeBenning, Charles Aidman, Bernard Fox, and Richard Gates, along with Elizabeth MacRae, Linda Gibboney, Leslie Paxton, and John King. It consists of four short stories built into a frame narrative about a man who takes refuge from a rainstorm in the residence of a mortician, with the four stories relating the fates of four corpses in the mortician's care.
Credits:
John Ericson as Talmudge
Ivor Francis as The Mortician / A Good Feller
Judith Novgrod as Miss Sibiler
Burr DeBenning as Growski
Charles Aidman as Detective Malcolm Toliver
Bernard Fox as Inspector McDowal
Richard Gates as Cantwell
Elizabeth MacRae as Mrs. Lumquist
Linda Gibboney as Julie
Leslie Paxton as Marie
John King as Marie's Husband
Stefanie Auerbach as Carol
Bo Byers as Growski Detective #1
David O'Malley as Growski Detective #2
Robert Telford as Maitre'd
Michael Colley as Stan
Gary Willis as Magazine Store Owner
Robert J. Mildfelt as Cantwell Businessman
Ben Smalley as Hanging Man
Evan Tonsing as Newsstand Attendant
