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Review: Oh my god. What happened with this movie???!!!!!!
I can't believe I finished watching till the end.....and the ending......even a child won't create this ending.
It seems like they want to make a house of the dead with a New York scene. It should be more interesting though.
But the first one, I give it one star because it is such a funny movie. (horrible?? I don't feel it)
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Summary: "Not too BAD"
Review: I thought this movie was some what realistic and seeing how the directo said he had certain zombies run and others kind of slack behind based on the time of death, so that was a plus, and Tom Savini was in the extras along with ROMERO! The best part in this movie was not in the movie itself but in the extras where George was talking about his new movie he's trying to make to follow up Day of the dead. But the gore was mainly in the zombies, you get to see there heads blow up and and blown away, but there were some cheesy "matrix" scenes that didnt quite fit. Lastly, YOU DIDNT SEE ANYONE GET KILLED (any humans that is), they always cut away and on to another scene. Its worth renting.
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Summary: Yo, Eddie Fender... What's your problem man?!
Review: Simply, this "movie" sucks. Whoever actually thinks it's cool must have a mental problem. This "thing" basically is a disgrace. If any of you guys EVEN consider about renting or even worst, buying this trash, i really have nothing to say but wish you luck to go through it because u WILL DEFINITELY need it!!!
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Summary: Good Bad Horror Movie
Review: The $2.24 price tag and 195 bad reviews convinced me that this was the flick for me. Being the consumate horror fan that I am, I actually enjoy some of Hollywood's more feeble attempts. This film did not dissapoint. The only thing that DID disappoint was that it was not as bad as some of my fellow reviewers would have you think. I mean in it's defense it:- made it made an attempt at a plot (sort of)
- contained ample gratuitous T & A
- had lots of shooting, gut spraying, explosions etc.
- had great sound (6.1 kicks butt)
- attempted "matrix like" fight scenes They even left room for a sequel with a jiggling zombie lady. I think that my fellow reviewers who "claimed" to be bad horror movie affectionado's were merely posers who secretly desired an Evil Dead II or Return of the Living Dead. So if you really do appreciate a good bad horror movie at a great price, House of the Dead may be what you're looking for. So go ahead. Time to climb down the stairs into the dark cellar with only a flickering candle to light your way.
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Summary: Good fun for fans of bad horror
Review: I was surprised (well not terribly surprised) at the number of horrible reviews this movie recieved. I rented it with a friend one night, and we both came out of the experience thinking something different about it. She hated it for all the reasons that have been mentioned here (bad acting, no character development, kids running around with guns like they've been trained for years, the cheesy cuts to the video game). Okay, it was a bad movie. But I kind of liked it anyway. Let me preface this by saying that I am a fan of a wide variety of horror movies. I grew up watching them, and have an appreciation for the truly scary as well as the amusingly bad. I enjoy them all. House of the Dead was not a good movie. It wasn't even good for a bad movie either, but it was still fun to watch. It had all of the cliches, thrown together in a delightfully campy way. The stranded teenagers...the dumb blonde constantly walking around without her shirt...all of this made me laugh. I didn't even mind the gun part, because honestly, I couldn't think of anything more fun than finding a box of guns and blasting my way through a hoarde of moaning zombies. That said, the first half of the movie was campier, funnier, and much more entertaining than the last. By the time the last remaining teenagers engaged in a full-out swordfight with the head zombie, it had lost some of its amusement. Not a great movie, not even a good movie, but a fun movie for fans of bad horror.
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Summary: Just plain bad!!!!
Review: I won't waste your time going into a long review. After watching this movie I'm very sensitive to the whole wasted time issue. The movie is terrible. The acting is stiff at best. The story doesn't even make any sort of sense. They just threw a couple of kids on an island and killed them in really unoriginal ways. I always try to at least close a review with something nice but I can't find one redeeming quality to list. This is quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen.
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Summary: DEATH TO VIDEO GAMES
Review: WOW. This movie sure did get panned by our fellow reviewers, didn't it? And I can see why. The interspersion of the SEGA videogame and the unabashedly bold marketing therein only adds more fuel to the "let's stop making video game movies." Even usually "fun" actors like Jonathan Cherry, Will Sanderson, Jurgen Prochnow and the ubiquitous Clint Howard can't save this fiasco. Lots of zombie gore but no real thrills or intelligence. Avoid unless you like stupid zombies.
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Summary: House Of The Dead..........one of the worst....crap
Review: The thought of anyone marketing this movie into theater where thousands of people watch it...is just a big old question mark? to me. Usual horror zombie movie with girls showing their bodies instead of their talents...which in this movie, no one really does. One big stupid, laughably idiotic situation after another with footage of the actual frickin' video game sprinkled into the movie which....WHY THE HELL WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?? Dumb characters....dumb direction with Uwe Boll (Alone In The Dark, probably one of the worst movie directors ever)having the camera go in slowmotion every 5 seconds with the actors doing stupid poses. Jurgen Prochnow (See Arnold Run, Das Boot) potrays Captain Kirk, who would of thought and he doesnt like Kirk jokes. Also starring Ellie Cornell (Halloween 4 and 5), Jonathan Cherry (Final Destination 2) and Clint Howard (ED TV, Apollo 13, Barb Wire). Tell me, when isnt Clint Howard in a corny horror movie? Too much Bolls**t...a lot of nothing adds up to more and more nothingness. House Of The Dead and I quote is probably one of the worst movies ever made or even put into movie theaters. Fans of the video game might actually wanna shoot themeselves instead of shooting the screen. If they make a House Of The Dead 2...that's it....I am so gonna be pissed off...I'm gonna blow down the walls....it's f**king pointless.
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Summary: Wish I could give it a 0 star rating...
Review: Video game movies are a dubious section of the movie business. After seeing movies like this one, it's amazing that video game movies continue to get greenlit. I guess I should be thankful that isn't the case because I'm an avid gamer and I love movies. What I don't like are movies like this...
Uwe Boll is a name video game enthusiasts will have to get used to hearing in the coming years. What started with this movie and continues with Alone in the Dark (you can see my review to see what I think of that) will include some potentionally interesting video games movies (including Hunter and Blood Rayne)...well, interesting video game movies, that is, if they weren't on Uwe Boll's hit list, which they are along with another 5 or so others.
The first problem with this movie is that it was even made. The video game itself is based on someone running through a mansion/science lab/etc and shooting anything that movies, while saving scientists who can't find their way out of a box. It's mildly amusing as a game, not so much as a movie. It's a game that I refer to as, "Plot? We don't need no stinkin' plot" game. To make a movie out of this seems ludicrous. Yet here we are...
So we already know the movie has no plot...well, except for teenagers at the island of the dead (wait wasn't that the plot for the Scooby Doo movie....?) at a Rave and of course zombies come running, literally running, to kill everyone until you have the band of fearless people who 1) can't act and 2) would rather have sex than deal with their worsening condition. Got that so far? Good. It's so bad it's not even campy. And I have a fondness for campy horror movies.
Well, does the movie have action? At least Uwe Boll can entertain me with some cool action. Video game movies don't have to be Oscar worthy performances (Resident Evil proved that) as long as they have action. Well, there's action...but is it exciting? Not in the least. In fact, in order to help cement the fact that this IS truly based on the video game, Uwe Boll was nice enough to include very pixilated scenes from the first video game! How nice! It's as if he's saying "See, this scene was in the game, aren't I clever?"
In an interview, Uwe Boll discussed how excited he was at including a matrix-y shot involving a camera spinning around an individual while he or she shoots their shotgun. Amazing! We get to see a 360 degree turn around a character! Score! Worth my 8 bucks alone!
I know I'm being overtly sarcastic about this movie. I've already spent more words on this movie than it warrants. It's just a horrible, horrible film. It has no redeeming value. There's no plot, there's no exciting action, the acting is absolutely horrible, and the characters are just robots for all we could care. It's not even funny. If it doesn't have anything, why is it here?
Depending on how you look at it, there is a shining light at the end of this tunnel of bores...however much your brain hurts from watching it, at least your fingers won't be tired because this atrocity does not come with a light gun.
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Summary: Poor and tired thriller.
Review: Monday, February 21, 2005 / 2 of 5 / Poor and tired thriller.
Lacking some of the visceral thrill of 28 Days Later or the remake of Dawn of the Dead this film goes through its paces as a inoffensive time waster. A group of not really attractive [strike one] kids show up late for a rave on a remote San Juan Island near Seattle. Hooking up w/ rug head from the Wraith and Juergen P. from Das Boot they sail off to their doom, only partially postponed by the older sister from Halloween 4-5. Undead zombies attack and the rest is predictable Night of the Living Dead reprises. Interspersed are quick shots of the video game this is based on. This was nothing special, even Resident Evil was better than this.
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