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House Of The Dead (2003)
Topic Started: Jun 18 2013, 11:58 PM (1,122 Views)
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A group of teens arrive on an island for a rave--only to discover the island has been taken over by zombies. The group takes refuge in a house where they try to survive the night.


So I just HAD to make a thread for this fun, awful piece of cow dung LOL. To be honest, this film is not THAT bad if you look at it as a horrid, deliberately bad Troma-esque B-Movie. If you want an example of fine art? LOLNO, you'll be disappointed. The characters are interesting enough, a decent variety. No one too special and quite a few were dislikeable. Team Ellie Cornell, black chick, main girl, Asian girl and stupid ass blonde bitch<3. And Simon. He was cute as fuckkk. The deaths ranged from shitty to average. The zombies were dull and just...whatthehell?! in general. The storyline was weak. Almost everything was weak. It was bad. And I'm sure you knew it was bad already. But yeah...badbadbadbadbadfuckingbadbad. But in a weird way, its charming, and definitely fun if you know what you're getting into. 3/10 for quality. 6.5/10 because its entertaining.
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The screen fades to red when one of them died, and the camera spins around them in circles, like the video game.
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Sounds like a fun movie.
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Its fun-bad, not 'good fun' but I still think you should check it out. :P
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It gives me too much of a headache to have fun. It's just too much.
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People shit all over this movie way too much. I'm not quite sure what they expected. It's exactly what you'd expect out of a b-movie based on a crappy arcade game series. A bunch of people walking around an island, killing zombies. I think it had some cool moments, and overall, it's a very entertaining film from my childhood. It came out when I was eleven, and I thought it was a pretty cool movie.

It's never going to become a classic or even achieve cult classic status, but it's a film I've never understood the hatred for. Hell, I feel the same about most of Uwe Boll's films. All of them are (other than In the Name of the King, of course) decently watchable. Mediocre... But watchable. (and Alone in the Dark introduced me to Nightwish and a bunch of other Nuclear Blast bands, so I can't hate it too much)

Plus, seeing Ellie Cornell play such a badass was kind of fun.

This movie did exactly what it was supposed to. Put a bunch of mildly-attractive, mildly-likable actors on an island, give them a bunch of ammo, and then bombard them with zombies... And while it didn't all work, some of the scenes were actually pretty cool. I don't think it's much worse than anything in the Resident Evil series, and I happen to quite like those.
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Yeah, there's much worse out there. Night of the Living Dead 3D and Children of the Living Dead come to mind. Like I said, this IS a bad movie, but its fun, and has tons of rewatch value. *Shrug*
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This is an unfairly maligned zombie effort that has a lot going for it. One of the better features here is the rather impressive suspense built up here, whether done through the jungle location where it's all set up in the traditional gloomy, oppressive jungle shrubs that really give off a great vibe or the opening scenes of the chaos-riddled party that doesn't strike as being odd and off-the-wall enough to really warrant that kind of attention which pays off in a rather tense beginning. Compounding it all as well is the film's singular best quality in its relentless action that pretty much runs throughout the film as a whole, initially serving as the perfect payoff for the suspense-filled opening while offering up plenty of exciting moments. There's plenty of action here that starts off with the attacks in the forest filled with oncoming swarms of zombies that are appearing behind trees and underwater all along a rather fun and exciting series of chases and encounters. The main part of the excitement here is the centerpiece assault on the group as they race into the shack which is readily filled with tons of blasting gunshots, zombies heads blasts apart, limbs hacked off and martial arts moves all being utilized against the zombies in a delirious ten-minute plus sequence that also manages to feature tons of stunt-work and gory action to make for a spectacular highlight. Other big action scenes include the final battle in the house where the reanimated bodies all start coming back to life in the lab while the battle in the tunnel features some creepy zombie make-up and leads into the thrilling sword fight at the finale. Along with that fantastic zombie make-up and fun gore, these are enough to build this up against the few flaws here, which include the continuous video-game sequences in the middle of a random scene which is quite aggravating for the quantity of times its done and the selection of scenes it showcases. They're distracting, don't fit the tone of what's happening and seem to be done merely to placate fans of the game. The only other flaw here is the decision to utilize the running zombie tactics that's just completely unrelated to anything in the film that we're given as to the source of their resurrection. These here are the film's only real flaws that hold it down.
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I'm glad you mentioned the huge fight scene since that's become one of my favorite parts of this. And I can never disagree with someone who complains about the random videogame footage since that's one of my biggest gripes as well. I was probably a tad hard on this in my initial review.

But it's still not very good. (lol)
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Sure it's good. Loads of zombie carnage, plenty of action, a fast, frenetic pace. Seems about right to be enjoyable to me.
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Rewatched this while cleaning today. First time in nearly ten years I've watched it.

Damn. This is a fucking fun ass movie. It's definitely bad, and the random inserts of scenes from the game for no reason whatsoever was mildly cheap and annoying, but it was still a certainly enjoyable crappy effort. Uwe Boll gets shit on an absolute lot, but this was a very enjoyable movie. Violent, flashy, sexy. It had likable, colorful characters with development, etc. Jonathan Cherry's sexiness. etc.

Plus, I loved all the different types of zombies in the movie. They didn't just do regular zombies. They had different types throughout, such as the ones that came out of the walls, etc. It was pretty cool.

Though... One of the first zombies we see... Farts, I think? He growls and then you hear a fart sound. I can't be the only one to notice it after nearly thirteen years... :/

SHIT. I can't believe the movie's that old now...
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I, too, utterly love this one as there's no reason why anyone can hate this other than irritant fan-boys of the video game who are up in arms about the franchise switching medias from game to movie. That's really all it has against it.
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Which is stupid. This film felt almost exactly like the video game. Stupid and ridiculous and action-packed.

Plus it has that stupid rap song "I. Am. FURY! Bringer of the vengeance in the house of the dead!"
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I never even knew there was a video game series until it said so in the credits when I first watched it. I had no idea there was one.
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I . . . I . . . *shaking my fucking head*

Why in God's name am I watching this right now?

This is soooooo bad. Not even in a fun way. It's just . . . terrible. Clint Howard isn't even his usual fun self in something like this.

I haven't watched this all the way through yet, because I just had to pause it after the coast guard lady shot the blonde woman NOT knowing she was turned into a zombie but KNOWS that wasn't her any more.

WTF?!

I'm pissed.

I don't care if it's anything like the game or not, I just don't even know the structure of the film/story. It's all so over the place. Nothing makes sense. Editing. Story. Characters.

Post is real bad too.

I don't care about any of the characters, btw. Especially the one guy who puked on the boat and got stuck in the portapotty. He looks cross-eyed all the time too, no?

Unpause.
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The only part worth watching is the big fight to the house near the hour mark or whenever. Plays out like a really cool music video/promo for the game. Even then it gets a little old.
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I think the reason this movie has the reputation it does is because it was basically the Sharknado of the 2000s: not all that different from any number of direct-to-video horror flicks and SyFy original movies, but blessed with something that allowed it to stand out from the pack, in this case a theatrical release and a video game license as opposed to a title and premise even more ridiculous than usual. The antics and later films of director Uwe Boll over the years have only helped it build its reputation.

That, and interspersing the action scenes with actual clips from the games is something that's pretty hard to top in terms of sheer WTF-ery.
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Apparently there's a Funny Version of this, and apparently it is not funny. (coffee)
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