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House of the Dead

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: This is a C movie. Maybe a D movie. The original 'Swamp Thing' is better than this movie. This is a movie that would probably be good for 8 to 10 year olds, except for the nudity and adult content. I dont mean that sarchastically either, it's just a BAD movie. Plot is terrible, acting is horrible, even the SETS are horrible. This may have worked if it the angle was twisted just slightly to go for the 'Airplane' genre. But unfortunately, it was billed as a true horror flic. And it is a horror.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: House of the Dread
Review: Zombies, naked girls, pulsing soundtrack, stupid kids... now what is missing from this equation... give up...? (Jeopardy theme music plays here)...ok times up...

Alex: Contestant number one what did you write

Contestant 1: What is (Bad Acting?)

Alex: No, I am sorry, that is a wrong answer, even though it has Jurgen Prochnow from Das Boot, his has, pretty much, no dimension in his character. Contestant number two what did you write?

Contestant two: Gratuitous chest shots?

Alex: I am sorry Contestant number 2, it had plenty of those and right off the bat. Contestant number three, Ed, what did you write?

Contestant 3: What about a storyline aka plot?

Alex: Contestant number three you are a jeopardy winner with a correct answer. The House of the Dead had no plot. People die for stupid reason. I know this is a horror movie and so we need death and destruction, but the dead don't just surprise these people, they walk right up to them and say... ok, I am next murder me. This film was pretty much a MTV video with zombies. It's a movie based from a game. The film was not scary at all. The head villain is just a left over act from the film Hellraisers. When the film started it seems as it wanted to be over as quickly as possible. The film is just 2 hours long (or so it claims to be) but it felt as only an hour passed by. Not because the film is good, because it never got started. It was nudity, kill, nudity, kill, run, run, run, kill, kill, kill, kill, roll credits.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: WORST horror movie of 2003
Review: Do not waste your time with this movie. All it is is a Matrix knock-off. If you want to see a zombie movie, watch one of Romero's movies. Leaps and bounds above this.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Worst movie EVER!!
Review: However bad you thought this film could be, it's worse. The acting and the script are bottom-of-the-barrel, the plot is half there and pointless, the backstory is ultra-stupid, the action scenes are laughably cheesy, and I'd rather go to the dentist than sit through this piece of crap again. I saw this flick in the theater today (matinee, thank God), and about 3/4ths of the way through the film, I could hear someone in the audience snoring!! I kid you not!! There was one scene where this character in the film is talking about how horrible her friend who turned into a zombie looked, and her acting is so bad that people in the audience were laughing!! This film even has gun mistakes (a guy firing with a Tec-9, then the scene cuts to something else, then back to him and now he's holding a Mac-10... crap like that), which are a staple of horrible movies everywhere. This film is destined to end up on Mystery Science Theater 3000, and that's the only way I'll ever watch it again. God, it was horrible.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't waste your Dead Time - this film's pure crap.
Review: This is one of the worst movies we have seen lately. I am a big brother to a couple older teens who love horror/zombie-based video games and movies. Usually at least one of us likes any such film we see, but in their own words this House of Dead is "Crap", none of us enjoyed any part of it. About a third of the audience left during the show - it was that bad.

The movie tries to capture scenes from the engaging video game, but fails to provide a believable story or anything new to look at. Grainy images from the video game are breifly inserted during the laughable action and they over use mock-Matrix bullet time scenes, spinning around a character, which resembles more the parody from Scary Movie - the remaining audience was laughing at this movie.

The movie posesses NONE of the cool Bosses from the video game and adds a hoaky story of a shipwrecked Spanish Scientist/Criminal that fails to provide any entertainment value. It is no wonder that this film was just slipped into distribution with little press. Too bad no Reviews were posted before I saw it - I hope this prevents you from wasting your Dead time.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Worst Film Of All Time
Review: This movie was so bad that people walked out and got refunds. No plot, no good kills, and lousy zombies. The film was so bad that the people who made it should be ashamed of themselves. It was awful. I would have put zero stars but it wasn't an option. Save yourself both time and money. Don't buy it. Don't go see it. Not even for free.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: house of the dead
Review: it was very scary. they used the Matrix style specail effects. very cool!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Long overdue, but still looks promising...
Review: I've seen the trailer for this movie lately and I must say that I was quite impressed. The use of zombies almost looks alot better than that of "Resident Evil" not to mention the non-stop action and more intense thrills! Sure, it probably won't be as shocking as "Cabin Fver" (which I heard was the sickest movie), but it still looks VERY awesome!! Based on the popular video game by SEGA, "House Of the Dead" already speaks for itself with the title name about flesheating zombies that kill! Now, the survivors have a nice assortment of weapons to choose from in order to send them all back to hell! I know somebody who actually starred in this film (he played a very very small part as a zombie and can only be seen for a couple seconds at one scene) and he told me ALOT about it! I think this'll be the BEST video game based movie in years! I AM DEFINATELY GONNA SEE THIS WHEN IT COMES OUT!!! If you're a strong horror fan, I suggest you do the same!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: For fans of laughably bad films only. Anyone eles, AVOID!
Review: Contrary to what some of the other reviewers have said, this is not the worst movie ever made, not even for just the genre of horror. (Just watch MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE, THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS or THE CREEPING TERROR, anyone of those will make you forget of this film as the worst movie ever.) Heck, this may not even be as awful as THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACURE 2 or EEGAH.

Now, make no mistake, I am not trying to defend this film in any way. This movie is BAD. Thankfully, though, it's bad in a laughable way. It may be best enjoyed with friends who are fans of really cheesy movies and who can come up with their own improventional MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000-type commentary. I won't bother describing the plot, since chances are you've read it already in Amazon's own plot description. Instead, I'll just point out some of the things that make this such a cheese-fest: scenes that flash-cut to scenes from the video game this is supposedly based on (sometimes for no apparent reason). Zombies that have glowing red eyes. (Oooh, scary!) The fact that sometimes when a main character dies we then cut to a shot of the character standing there and the camera spinning around him or her and then the screen turns red. Then of course there's the usual things, such as wooden acting and bits of immortal dialoge. (The most famous of which would seem to be when one of the main characters asks the main bad guy,"You did all this to become immortal? Why?" And the response,"To live forever!") The one nice thing I can say about this one is it does aknowlege George A. Romero's holy trilogy. (That's the origonal NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD and DAY OF THE DEAD for anyone who doesn't know.)

Lastly, I'm not sure how the plot of the movie is suppposed to tie in with the plot of the arcade game it's based on...uh, named after. Having played through the game, I seem to remember it being about one or (if you're playing with a friend) two goverment agents who go into a mansion where a mad scientist has found a way to ressurect the dead.

Finally, to sumerize: this strictly for bad movie buffs. Those who want to see a truely good zombie film should watch...well, the above-mentioned holy "dead" trilogy would be a great choice.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: if any one can think of some thing wores tell me
Review: this is by far the worst horror movie ever. wait you know what I changed my mind its the worst movie ever. this cinimatic pice of barf lack plot, charecters, gore. jesse this movie is just so good at being bad. I give it 1 star because I cant give it o. if you wish to find a defice that can torture some one than pick up the dvd and force them to watch it.


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