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House Of The Dead
2003
Uwe Boll's HOUSE OF THE DEAD, based on a video game, manages to capture the goofy, giddy flavour of the drive-in features and Saturday morning cartoons of the 1970s. The story involves a sextet of attractive, romantically entangled Seattle hipsters who hire a boat manned by a salty sea captain (Jurgen Prochnow) to take them to .. Read more
| Starring | Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer |
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| Director | Uwe Boll |
| Genres | Horror |
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House Of The Dead
Uwe Boll's HOUSE OF THE DEAD, based on a video game, manages to capture the goofy, giddy flavour of the drive-in features and Saturday morning cartoons of the 1970s. The story involves a sextet of attractive, romantically entangled Seattle hipsters who hire a boat manned by a salty sea captain (Jurgen Prochnow) to take them to an island rave. Unfortunately, there is a legend surrounding the island which they do not heed: an evil, immortal Spaniard has been conducting experiments with the undead there for centuries. Countless numbers of shambling zombies are in fact already poised to being a massive attack on the invading ravers. By the time the gang lands, most everyone at the party has already been killed and joined the ranks of the living dead. Fortunately, the captain is also an arms smuggler and soon the dwindling survivors are geared up with heavy artillery, blasting their way through the hordes in high video-game style. Pumping hard core techno rap fusion, swooping MATRX-style camera moves, manic editing, ample gore effects, clips from the actual video game, and a dash of nudity all coalesce to keep things lively. Those who like their horror a little on the cheesy side may just find themselves in zombie-movie nirvana.
| Starring | Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer, Ellie Cornell |
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| Director | Uwe Boll |
| Studio | LIONS GATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 27 mins |
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| Genres | Horror |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 13 Jun 2005 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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If you can't get enough of living-dead bloodbaths after the 2004 release of Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, here's the latest flesh-eater flick to spill onto the big screen. But if it's a kickass zombie movie you want, then forget this cartoonish, techno-driven splatter spectacular based on a bestselling Sega video game. Packed to the blood-soaked brim with naked babes, manic martial arts and slashing swords, this tedious tale is all about a group of over-sexed teens who arrive on an island for a rave party, only to discover the secluded paradise has been taken over by death-dealing cadavers. Taking refuge in an old dark house, they must use all their wits and any available weapon to survive the night and the relentless undead onslaught. George A Romero's original template has now worn pretty thin so you'll either love this repetitive gore-fest for its unpretentious dumbness or hate it for being nothing more than a shameless plug for the game.
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Sensational sword fighting, and gushes of stylish gore... a living dead extravaganza.
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21 out of 23 people found this review helpful
Great game . Bad movie
Based on the SEGA game (I think they just used the game name, SEGA logo and bits of the graphics) Stereotype American kids go to an island for a party/rave and end up in a fight with zombies. Jurgen Prochnow plays an over the top boat skipper called Capt KIRK (yep its that bad).
Poor acting, poor story, unintentionally funny. Action/fights are spoilt by having flashes from the game inserted. This is one of the worst zombie movies I have ever seen, even some of the 70s and 80s Italian ones are better than this! -
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21 out of 23 people found this review helpful
Great game . Bad movie
Based on the SEGA game (I think they just used the game name, SEGA logo and bits of the graphics) Stereotype American kids go to an island for a party/rave and end up in a fight with zombies. Jurgen Prochnow plays an over the top boat skipper called Capt KIRK (yep its that bad).
Poor acting, poor story, unintentionally funny. Action/fights are spoilt by having flashes from the game inserted. This is one of the worst zombie movies I have ever seen, even some of the 70s and 80s Italian ones are better than this! -
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House Of The Dead
Uwe Boll's HOUSE OF THE DEAD, based on a video game, manages to capture the goofy, giddy flavour of the drive-in features and Saturday morning cartoons of the 1970s. The story involves a sextet of attractive, romantically entangled Seattle hipsters who hire a boat manned by a salty sea captain (...
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