House of the Dead (2003)

Yet another minority member...
I know, I KNOW! No one likes this movie. People enjoy taking a big dump on it.

And I know my reputation is at stake here, but I liked this movie. Did I love it as one of the best out there. Well, I won't go that far. The acting, plot, random daytime rave, and swordfight at the end were... well, in a word, not the greatest.

But for me, the saving grace of the movie is the gun battle on and around the boat and the assault on the island cabin that houses the mystery. Or, the House of the Dead.

Seriously, any real fan of zombie horror has dreamed of getting a stack of weapons and unloading on an army of zombies. This movie delivers that in spades! Zombies blasted from top to bottom, and tremendous exploding headshots! The movie has gore aplenty, as per any good zombie movie, and zombies getting blasted, just like the video game.

I agree, not the greatest zombie movie, but I've seen much worse.

1 star, but because I have no choice.
Yip, if you've read any of the other 1-star reviews, then hopefully you've cottoned on. I think the person who most needs to understand is the director, Uwe Boll. As a musician and entertainer, it is important to develop thick skin, because there will always be some who don't like what you do. But I have standards, and in Nelson I'm well-regarded as an accomplished artist. Still I wrangle with self-doubt, and I strive to better myself. Uwe, are you getting the message? Just because you enjoy doing something, doesn't mean you are any good at it, or have the right to inflict the "finished product" on poor unsuspecting civilians. You must have the gift ot the gab to be able to get the funding to pull off dreadful film after dreadful film. Either that or your daddy is rich. Go away man! Stop adding to the already-too-big-trash-heap of lazy pointless "art" that those of us with taste have to wade through. Just go away, stop inflicting your films on the world. Take up waterblasting or something. BOYCOTT BOLL!!!!!!!!!!

Oh. My. GOD.
There's bad, there's campy, and then there are films so atrocious that you want to gouge your eyes out and wash your brain stem with bleach to forget you ever watched them. The poor writing, horrific acting and abysmal direction all roll together into what is perhaps the single worst motion picture ever made. A group of college kids go out to an island for a rave (sponsored by Sega, of all things), which is suddenly overwhelmed with zombies, forcing them to fight for their lives and walk around in slow motion. Uwe Boll comes from the school of direction that says the more special effects he can cram into a movie, the better. You'll notice that this philosophy has nothing to do with GOOD special effects, or even effects used at the appropriate time. Perish forbid the actors exhibit any emotion, either. There's a scene where a girl is turned into a zombie, tries to eat her friends and gets her head blown off, and her BOYFRIEND'S emotionless reply is simply, "what was that?"

I'm not the sort of person who watches movies and thinks, "I could have done better than that," but I felt that way about EVERY SINGLE PERSON associated with this film -- writers, actors, director, makeup artists, the guy who dropped off the vegetable tray on day four of shooting... the only thing I couldn't do is provide the sheer eye candy of Erica Durance. Other than that, virtually any first-year student with a digital camera could make a better movie than this one. And I don't even necessarily require that they be a first year FILM student.