House of the Dead
House of the Dead
R | 10 October 2003 (USA)
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Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity in the House of the Dead... Prequel to the House of the Dead video games.

Reviews
evbartoszak

I would prefer just finding a window and jumping out of it than watching anything Uwe Boll directed ever again.

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Samuel Crumpacker

Uwe Boll has come to be known as the worst director in Hollywood. The new Ed Wood, the all time supreme master of crap. This film has mediocre action sequences that make no sense and copy other films, it has nothing to do with the famous arcade game, and agent G is apparently a black guy. Uwe Boll you are terrible and you really had a cornucopia of things hand wrapped and given out to you, but you had to do it your way didn't you? But I still cannot get over how terrifically mental it is to not have G and Rogan be main characters. Instead you had to take a bunch of idiot teenagers that we aren't attached because they are so unlikable, and then you screw up the race of which G is. YOU COULDN'T EVEN GET THAT TINY LITTLE PART RIGHT! This was a golden opportunity to expand the HOTD universe and add on to the classic game. It was a chance to make thousands of HOTD fans become proud that there favorite game series was picking up and expanding more. But this is just a smear of trash, making sega curse the day they made the game and making people curse the day they ever picked up one of the classic arcade guns. This film blows. Bad dialogue, scenes, acting, editing, and most of all directing.

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Francesca Ramayan

Good points So bad you can only laugh because it is actually meant to be a serious movie. Bad points The plot - until the last 20 minutes of the film there is no plot, its just random nonsense, the action scene was ridiculously long and boring, am I really expected to believe that a bunch of party goers are skilled weapon users, seriously come on.The Characters/Acting - You get a brief run down of a few characters at the start of the film, during the course of the film that group expands, as people are inevitably killed off, the little to no emotion at the loss of friends.Cinematography - wasn't all bad, but the flashing between action scenes was harsh on the eyes.Writing - Plain old crapOverall - 1 hour and a half of your life you will never get back

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Leofwine_draca

Uwe Boll enjoys something of a reputation on the Internet as one of the worst directors in existence; a modern-day Ed Wood, if you will, incapable of making produce that's not completely terrible in every sense. For me, though, such descriptions are unfair to Ed Wood, whose films were at the very least entertaining. HOUSE OF THE DEAD is nothing like; it's an awful film and even worse than the previous Boll film I watched, ALONE IN THE DARK.An erstwhile adaptation of the popular arcade game, this is a traditional zombie film which sees a group of unwary ravers falling foul of some zombies that emerge from the depths of the ocean to wreak havoc upon the living. So far, so B-movie, but the direction and technical values are of such an appalling quality that even the most generous of movie buffs will struggle to enjoy this. Desperate attempts to interest viewers, such as the gratuitous nudity, fail to work, leaving this a train wreck of a film.Incredibly, Boll gets everything wrong at every point. The decision to include actual clips of the video game is stupid in the extreme. His direction is rubbish, as is the acting, even from seasoned genre veterans like Jurgen Prochnow and Clint Howard. The effects are poor and although the film contains non-stop action, it's thoroughly dull because said action is so poorly staged. Dull, dull, dull and silly throughout, comic book in style but lacking the energy and excitement of a comic book adaptation. The worst zombie movie ever made? Quite possibly, even with all the silly Italian zombie flicks out there.

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