House of the Dead... the movie...

[Rumpy]

I heard that even after a massive protest, the director decided to keep in the cuts of the game in the movie (as in a zombie appears on screen and then game footage is cut in, then it goes back to live action and then some more VG footage...)

[JM]

I know it'll be chessy and campy and MST3K bad, but that's all why I can't wait to see it. Films like this just put a big stupid grin on my face. Why people can't allow themselves to revel in crappy movies, I don't know.

My only comment, is that such reveling should be done for free, on cable. I have a child, a full time job & a part time job. There is no way I would spend my time & money on something like this in the theaters. I only catch one or two movies in a theaters a month, so a movie that is enjoyable because it is good on many levels is a much better investment.

JM

[SearchManX]

There's no way I'd spend more than $5 to watch this if I am even remotely interested.

[Korian]

A lot of you don't seem to appreciate Horror, as even the worst in the genre can still be appreciated if you look at the style of filmaking and gore, scare factor.

I think the Movie looks pretty cool, better than I had expected. It is R rating which means that the gore/violence factor should be high, keeping true to the game. With that said even if the Movie has poor acting it still stays true to the games stunted dialouge which is often funny in its own right.

I find it interesting how some of you write off a Movie based on a poor trailer.

[Mman]

Not to mention all the reviews...

And the trailer looks horrible. I mean, the story is ass dumb, has nothing to do w/ the game, plus it is filled with stupid style fillers.

Not to mention you have horrible, horrible taiste :P

[voltz]

I heard that even after a massive protest, the director decided to keep in the cuts of the game in the movie (as in a zombie appears on screen and then game footage is cut in, then it goes back to live action and then some more VG footage...)

my god, that's absolutely horrible! It also reminds me of how annoying it was the way the two towers would pull back and forth between ingame movies and FMV, which was cheezy to no end.

[GohanX]

"That's Spanish for death!"

Hey, it's Morty! How ya doin?

[Diff-chan]

I found the AICN Review. Here's a sample:

Bad acting, bad script, shoddy camera work... all that can be overcome in a horror film if it's fun, unpretentious and has at least one good money shot gore moment.

OK... Now to open the flood gates. HOUSE OF THE DEAD was so bad it caused me pain while watching it. It wasn't even fun bad, like BATTLEFIELD EARTH or DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS. It's not something you can laugh at while getting wasted with a bunch of buddies. The script is so terrible, the dialogue so self referential it'd make Kevin Williamson gasp in disbelief. I'm serious, the movie is so unenjoyable that it couldn't have just been a fuckup. They had to work at making it this bad.

There's only one aspect of the film I can applaud for showing amazing talent. Whoever the producer was who was able to raise $12 million on a script as shitty as this one is one talented motherfucker. That is, of course, if all the money for the film wasn't put up by SEGA and if so, shame on them! This could have been a fun, creepy movie. Instead it's the kind of horror movie that gives a bad name to the genre. It's the kind of film that can put horror back 5 years. All I can hope is Romero's funding for his next DEAD movie stays strong and he rescues us from such filth as HOUSE OF THE DEAD.

I've been writing for AICN for around 6 years now and this is one of maybe 3 or 4 bad reviews I've ever written. Usually I see a bad movie and I just ignore it. I don't want to relive it. But this movie didn't just waste my time it caused me physical pain. It made me angry. I'd watch RESIDENT EVIL and SOLDIER a thousand times over before watching this pile of crap again and coming from me, a big non-fan of Paul W.S. Anderson, that's saying something. HOUSE OF THE DEAD makes RESIDENT EVIL look like CITIZEN KANE. That's no exaggeration.

Shame on you, Uwe Boll for wasting $12 million on a boring, painful sorry excuse for a zombie movie. Shame on you Mark A. Altman for writing a script as shitty as you did, especially since you put others down so quickly during your stint as a critic for CINESCAPE. Every holier than thou review you ever put out, every single critique you made about writing can be thrown out the window as you obviously don't have any clue what good writing is. Shame on any distributor who wastes their money picking this film up.

Its right here... its actually a very entertaining read

[JM]

A lot of you don't seem to appreciate Horror, as even the worst in the genre can still be appreciated if you look at the style of filmaking and gore, scare factor.

I think the Movie looks pretty cool, better than I had expected. It is R rating which means that the gore/violence factor should be high, keeping true to the game. With that said even if the Movie has poor acting it still stays true to the games stunted dialouge which is often funny in its own right.

I find it interesting how some of you write off a Movie based on a poor trailer.

Well, most of us saw the making of the film on the Xbox HOTD3 game. This movie is going to be SHIT! You say I don't appreciate horror, but I LOVE a well made horror movie. You seem to have issue with anyone who expects a well made/written/filmed movie from the horror genere. I can't understand how you can sit & defend this movie.

Oh well, There are people who appreciate videos of women taking runny shits on each others faces, and I'm sure they don't understand when others tell them that they don't want to watch it with them.

JM

[Mr-K]

Oh God imagine that if in every gun fight the screen flashes and says "Reload" over and over and over and over and over and over...

Yeah, I'm seeing this, but I'm bringing bleach so I can drink it if it gets as horrible as I think it's going to be.