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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
Director	Uwe Boll
Genres	Horror

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  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 ... read more »
  
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  - zzzzzz
  - 112 reviews
  - at home
  - 10 Feb 2005 at 09:44
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  - 0
  other reviews don't do this film justice
  
  other reviews don't do this film justice on how bad it really is. As well as the what other reviews have said regarding plot holes bad acting etc there is ... read more »
  
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- - film-addict
  - 5 reviews
  - Enfield
  - 29 Apr 2012 at 13:59
- - 0
  - 0
  Lifeless acting, and not just from the zombies
  
  I felt it unfair to continue to deride Uwe Boll's movies as some of the worst committed to celluloid having going purely on the 'rumour' of the ... read more »
  
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- - CraggleRock
  - 1 review
  - 27 Sep 2011 at 17:19
- - 0
  - 0
  UWE Boll sucks
  
  How on earth does this guy get money to make such utter toss. He takes good games and basically makes a terrible movie. Anyone who voted this film more than 2 ... read more »
  
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  - PeterFile
  - 8 reviews
  - Swindon
  - 26 Nov 2010 at 11:30
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  - 0
  Who ever endorsed this film should be ashamed of themselves!
  
  this film was so bad it was funny, not only was there poor acting throught but the director also stole loads of seens from good films, like the lord of the ... read more »
  
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  - St Ives Cambs
  - 05 Oct 2010 at 14:30
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  Boycott Uwe Boll!
  
  Horrid little man has bought the rights to alot of my favourite games and is ruining them by making terrible budget movies. AVOID. If you like the games, don&#... read more »
  
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  - Sephy
  - 43 reviews
  - Kent
  - 07 Aug 2010 at 14:25
- - 0
  - 0
  Awful
  
  Quite simply the worst movie I've rented from Tesco. AVOID!
  
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  - Weston-super-Mare
  - 07 Mar 2010 at 23:08
- - 0
  - 0
  Zero stars are too many
  
  I knew this was going to be a bad film. When you see the name Uwe Boll you know its not going to be a master piece but i was shocked on how awful it was, i mean... read more »
  
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- - Joff4
  - 16 reviews
  - Crawley
  - 08 Nov 2009 at 01:47
- - 0
  - 0
  Garbage
  
  Why they make films like this I don't know. Who in their right minds would enjoy it. The acting is awful, storyline in worse and the zombies are really ... read more »
  
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- - Edwards9009
  - 14 reviews
  - Hove
  - 23 Jul 2009 at 16:23
- - 0
  - 0
  Avoid like the plague.
  
  Probably the single worse film I have ever seen. Tries to hard to hark back at the game that inspired it but just comes across as naff. Rubbish generic ... read more »
  
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- - gavtheevilgenius
  - 1 review
  - Crundale
  - 11 Jul 2009 at 20:09
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  - 0
  house of the dead
  
  Whoops did i really put this in my dvd player.terrible but what do you expect from uwi boll.aviod at all costs
  
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- - sonycentre
  - 3 reviews
  - Mansfield
  - 02 Jun 2009 at 22:36
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- - 21
  - 2
  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 ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 322517
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  
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  - zzzzzz
  - 112 reviews
  - at home
  - 10 Feb 2005 at 09:44
- - 16
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  One of the most pathetically bad films ever commited to film!
  
  Saw this two years back at Leeds Film festival horror night, and boy did it suck. This film is utterly, utterly dire.. it doesn't even have the humourous ... read more »
  
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  - Bighouse, England
  - 26 Jun 2005 at 09:25
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  If I had a choice I would give it -1 Stars
  
  This is so bad I'm surprised its even on rent, it was pulled from cinemas in America after a week and was panned by everyone who knows about movie's.read more »
  
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  - London , England
  - 25 Apr 2005 at 12:59
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  Games to Film
  
  Based apon the Video Game of the same name, this transplants the story to an island where a rave is happening, soon a group of friends find all is not what it ... read more »
  
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- - Iain Harrison
  - Bracknell
  - 26 Feb 2005 at 08:18
- - 7
  - 2
  For your own sake don't watch
  
  This film is like torture, painful and seemingly neverending (how 90 minutes can seem like 7 hours still avoids me).
  
  How it managed to get a cinema ... read more »
  
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- - Draney
  - 5 reviews
  - Merthyr Tydfil
  - 05 Mar 2005 at 14:43
- - 5
  - 0
  OMG
  
  Firsty I would like to say I am a big fan of the arcade, video game title. That is a class act!
  
  As for this I cant believe they tried to hash a film ... read more »
  
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- - SAi
  - 4 reviews
  - Mansfield
  - 10 Aug 2006 at 23:50
- - 4
  - 0
  Don't believe all you read...
  
  This film is not as bad as everyone says HONESTLY! It is not going to win any awards, but the the story, acting and script are all okay. Some of the special ... read more »
  
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- - paul
  - Portsmouth, England
  - 11 Jan 2006 at 20:14
- - 3
  - 2
  really, really bad
  
  marginally, and I mean very marginally better than the other Uwe Boll film I saw recently, alone in the dark. This means it is perhaps the second worst film I ... read more »
  
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- - Richard
  - glasgow, uk
  - 06 Feb 2006 at 09:28
- - 3
  - 2
  A waste of 90 mins of your life
  
  Words like terrible and rubbish spring to mind with house of the dead but they somehow just don`t do justice to how bad this film is!
  
  The acting is ... read more »
  
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- - apachie
  - cornwall
  - 30 Jan 2005 at 15:41
- - 3
  - 2
  Don't take this seriously, it's fun
  
  One thing to remember - this is a terrible film. And it's proud of this fact. This makes it fun.
  
  Unlike other recent horror films which seem to ... read more »
  
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- - NickAxford
  - 33 reviews
  - Sheffield
  - 24 Aug 2005 at 00:30

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  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 (...