House of the Dead

Rating:
Summary: I give it 5!
Review: I am very keen on zombie flicks and Sega as I've seen all of Romero and Fulci's creations among others and I've played this game in the arcades and this under-rated game-to-movie definitely delivers! It comes with a fast approach packed with plenty of flying limbs and action-style gore! The zombies look alot like Fulci's "Zombie" with great special effects make up. This is definitely a must rent or even buy if you want to see something new in this genre! This movie has all the great aspects of a good classic zombie flick including assault weapons galore, exploding heads, severed limbs, matrix-style fatalities using awesome explicit blood and gore effects! At least rent it and see for yourself instead of listening to fools on here who know nothing about good horror/splatter/gore films!

Rating:
Summary: pretty bad
Review: it was just bad,
everything looks fake. the dead can jump far and you can see why, in some scenes you can see the catapults. in the dark forests they are even lit. i rented it and i regret it, the only good thing is that i did not pay to see it in the movies.

Rating:
Summary: Horrible
Review: The only review I've ever written, I feel it is my duty to humanity to warn people away from this 'movie'. If you need inspiration to clean your bathroom and take out the trash, then go ahead and rent it, otherwise don't waste your money, your time and possibly the friendship of anyone else who is around at the time.

Rating:
Summary: Couldn't be any worse
Review: When I rented this movie I expected a transition from video game to movie screen much like that of Resident Evil. However, this movie was unable to shake its video game roots. First, they spliced in snips from the game just reminding the viewerthat this was based off the game. They also do this because they probably ran out of money after filming the lengthy shoot-em-up sequence. The big fight to the house was about 5 minutes too long and used the bullet time poorly.

The costumes were ok, but the acting was absolutely terrible. The amount of boobs were over the top and placed too closely together.

Not scary, not funny, not worth the time.

Rating:
Summary: oh dear god!
Review: Well, I made the huge mistake of seeing this in the theaters. A nice movie watching day happened to be ruined by this piece o' crap. I wanted to see Kill Bill or Intolerable Cruelty but my buddie wanted to watch this new, cool horror film; House of the Dead. I was not really into seeing it, (I am a Horror Junkie, but this movie's previews seemed to be well... boring.) I sat in the theater and saw all of the cool previews and uncool alike. The room went dark and opened the main attraction, House of the Dead. First off, it was horrible acting; Unlike most movies this one started off with god awful acting. I new I was in for a B rated movie, but I was not expecting an F rated one.
The movie is a perfect example of how not to make a movie. I thought Mac and Me was crap but this one took the cake. No story line, No plot and no resonable people giving the green light on this film,

The only thing this movie is good for is a few laughs (it's not supposed to be funny) and an instructional video on how not to make a film. It is pure crap and I give it the worst rating of all time.

PURE GARBAGE

Rating:
Summary: House of tha stupid
Review: where do I begen. The fil flat out sucks, avoid it. itz tha most retarted thing I ever saw. How could the people that made this take this serious. The acting is garbage, the gore looks like it was digitaly added, the blood is dark pink. don't rent it don't buy it, this movie is the worst zombie I have ever seen. so avoid it, or you will die of stupididy.
Since they don't let you give it a zero, Thats why It has a 1
This movie sucks

Rating:
Summary: Bashful's DVD Summary #036
Review: Best:

1) The killing action is VERY frantic and the zombies are plentiful (as is the blood & guts). Lots of zombie heads and body parts splatter like red, ripe tomatoes.
2) The mid-movie extended gun battle is very cool. The hard-driving soundtrack, computer screen flashes and slo-mo 360-degree camera moves make it seem like you're IN the "House of the Dead" video game.
3) There are special features that include 2 commentary tracks, deleted scenes and 2 behind-the-scenes shows.

Worst:

1) Just like many RPG video games, the main plot of this movie is simply to kill a bunch of monsters before they kill you (in this case, a group of humans). It doesn't go beyond that (but it obviously was never meant to be anything more).

Recommendation:

Horror fans, who come to the table with the right expectations, should really like this one. It's not a movie so much as it's a video game come to life. Aside from the lack of storyline, the action parts of this film stand up to any monster movie out there by ANY famous director. It's fun if you let it be. Remember that GEORGE A. ROMERO himself endorses this movie and used it to get more ideas for his upcoming remake of "Dawn of the Dead".

Rating:
Summary: The rotten smell of...
Review: this movie. First let me say that as far as arcade shooters go The House of the Dead is top notch, fill your pockets with quarters, and blast the hell out of zombies and other such monsters, fun. A great concept for a lightgun game. Horror fans and even shooter fans loved it, I know I looked for it whenever I visited arcades. So yes there was a built in fanbase surrounding the game. At one time the concept of turning this really fun game into a movie might have been a good idea if given a proper budget and maybe even an adequate director, but alas it wasn't meant to be.

Your head starts aching less than 10 minutes into this film, you start fidgeting when quick glimpses of the so called "rave of the year" seems to be about twenty people gyrating to something or other, with some mild interest at the quick topless shots (and I mean quick) but then it starts sucking all over again. Then the "zombies" appear looking like the product of some washed out makeup artist's deep rooted hatred of Tom Savini being expressed through a Halloween paint by numbers kit.

The gore is pathetic and not even remotely realistic, the actors playing zombies think they're doing a good job emulating Romero's undead, but the result is insulting at best. However, some of the zombies can jump really far, so that's, wait no that isn't cool that's just stupid. As for the blood, well some hardware store is missing red paint and they'd like it back.

There were some good points to this film, Jonathan Cherry gets to play the Bruce Campbell look alike and damned if he don't kinda look like Ash, even the costuming seems to mirror the Evil Dead, so if any one were to do a remake of those films here's your potential new slayer of Deadites. Also Ona Grauer (whose apparent skill in this film was fencing) was fun to look at. Other than that this film lends a helluva lot of credence to the idea that the Horror genre is crap, which it most certainly is not.

Hopefully Uwe Bol will go back to watching movies and stop making them (I'd say he's seen the Matrix at least twice). Whoever greenlighted this film, you're an idiot. I'm sorry for the newer members of the cast as it might be hard to find parts after this. Clint Howard and Jurgen Prochnow what happened?

If you have to see every zombie movie see this one too, if not save your money for the video game that's at least a little fun. As for movies made from video games the only one that has gotten it right so far is Resident Evil, so if you haven't seen Milla Jovovich kicking Umbrella Corp zombie ass you might want to.

My sincerest apologies to George Romero, Tom Savini, Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, Milla Jovovich, and Capcom for even mentioning their names or properties in this review.

Rating:
Summary: stupefyingly mindnumbing
Review: I cannot begin to describe how absolutely crappy this piece of trash is. I am a huge fan of movies and an even bigger fan of cheesy, low budget horror movies, but this thing just leaves me without words. I can't even believe that Clint Howard decided to be in it, and he's been in some winners.

I wasn't expecting much, maybe an hour and a half of entertaining blood and gore, super cheesy acting, and something of a plot. I didn't get any of that. The only thing that kept me going was the sheer amazement that this thing was ever approved to be shipped out. My rats could write a more intelligent story line, and they could probably act better too.

And then it happened... They decided to throw in some random shots of the video game. Being stupefied already, I think I lost several brain cells when this occurred. Now why would you do that? Someone actually thought it would be a good idea to add scenes from a dated video game, to what, enhance the movie? And then a bunch of other people agreed to it! Why??! I'm all for video games, believe me. But that was just wrong.

The fact that during the intro the narrator had to describe every characters purpose in the film should say something. Instead of incorporating some kind of character building dialog, they decided to list it all out for you right in the beginning. There was the stupid one, the comic relief, and the three girls, who I can't remember what they were good for. Then all through the movie they kept trying to verify the characters descriptions at the beginning. You know, by calling the stupid one, "stupid", and by telling the comic relief that he was, "goofy". There was no comic relief and they were all stupid. And then at the very beginning they go and tell you that everyone dies. So there you go. Heck, all you need to watch is the first few minutes and you'll be all set to turn it off. You could just imagine what happens, and it would probably be more entertaining and make more sense.

Oh man, and don't you know it I checked out the extras. The deleted scenes to be exact, because I couldn't even fathom what they decided was not movie material. It was bad, really bad. I mean boom mics galore and just the most awkward, brain dead acting ever.

I love cheesy films, I live for them. But this movie had aboslutely no cheese to it. It was just sad. Very, very sad. There are about a sea of zombie movies I would recommend instead of this one. DEAD-ALIVE, being my favorite movie of all time and then the EVIL DEAD series after that (Bruce Campbell is my hero). In fact, I don't think you can get any worse than the HOUSE OF THE DEAD. So have at any other horror you want and it would be much more satisfactory.

Rating:
Summary: Beyond bad
Review: I figured House of the Dead wouldn't be anything special when it was released, but man oh man, it was worse than I could have ever fathomed. Filled with terrible acting, plot holes galore, a poor script, poor direction, and incoherent action; House of the Dead isn't even one of those movies that's so bad it's good, it's just plain bad. The flashes of shots from the Sega video game that inspired it are completely unnecessary to say the least, and the look of the film as a whole is just plain dumb. Poor Jürgen Prochnow (Das Boot, In the Mouth of Madness) is stuck in the film as the captain of the boat (his last name is Kirk, hardy har) and Clint "brother of Ron" Howard is his perfectly weird mate, while Jonathan Cherry (Final Destination 2) is the only other recognizeable actor in this whole mess. Horror and zombie fans, this movie isn't worth a look one bit, it's easy to see why this was laughed out of theaters.