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House of the Dead

Cast

Rudy Jonathan Cherry
Simon Tyron Leitso
Salish Clint Howard
Alicia Ona Grauer
Casper Ellie Cornell
Greg William Sanderson
Karma Enuka Okuma
Liberty Kira Clavell
Cynthia Saloma Salomaa
Hugh Michael Patrick
Castillo David Palffy
Captain Kirk Jürgen Prochnow

Stats

Director

Uwe Boll

Rated R
Release Oct. 10, 2003
Runtime 90 min.

Score

Plot

A group of friends are going to a remote island, planning on attending a rave.  When they arrive to the island there is nobody there, just beer, tents, and a concert stage.  It appears as though everybody had just disappeared.

Review

Well, I love zombie movies, they are one of my favorite types of horror movies.  This movie though, is a steaming pile of shit.  But for some reason I loved it, even in it's flaming shit glory.  I love that it is so funny when nothing is even happening.  I found myself laughing my ass of at the stupidest stuff. 

There are several reasons why this movie sucks ass.  Well actually, there is roughly about 2,549,106 reasons why this movie is a pile of butt spunk, but I'm lazy and am only going to name a few of them.

First of all, the acting in House of the Dead, is the scariest thing in the entire movie.  It is so bad that it is laughable.  Everybody says everything in a "matter of fact" voice.

Next on the list of why this movie is a piece of crap is that the dialogue is horrendous.  Some of the worst lines ever are in this movie.  "This book looks old, Maybe it can help us out." says Alicia. What the fuck is that?  But the best worst line in the movie is when Rudy says to a zombie, "Why do you want to live forever?" and the zombie says, "so I will never die."

Along with crappy acting and bad dialog we get a corny ass soundtrack.  Some of the worst music to kill zombies to is, well, played while killing zombies.  Did I really hear Bif Naked in there?

The special effects are pretty good, the gore is a mixture of CGI and makeup effects.  There is also a lot of "bullet time" in House of the Dead.  You know, when they slow down the movie, and follow a slow bullet.  Well, it is ok at first, but gets kind of annoying and completely over used.  It is almost as if they did it to make the movie a little bit linger.

Even though there are about 2,549,106 reasons why this movie sucks.  It is still funny to watch, and is just like watching the game.  It is a perfect B-Horror movie.  I can see it being on Mystery Science Theater 3000, some day.  It's fun to watch so check it out. 

Gore

Lots of gore.  We get bullet holes all over the place, chopped of heads, stabbings, tons of exploding heads, axing, chopped off legs, chopped off arms, more bullet wounds, zombie bites, and lots more.

The Goodies

So what have we learned today?

Body Count:

17 +/-

  • Rave goers know how to kick zombie ass in bullet time, even if they are drunk.
  • There are 7/11's on islands.
  • Zombies absolutely hate raves, and Captain Kirk.

Nudity

Jackpot!! We get four, that's right, four breast shots, although one of them is provided by camera footage.  As for the ladies, well, do zombies turn you on?

Arsenal

Guns

Explosives

Machetes

Knives

Axe

More Guns

So, do you  disagree with my thoughts on this movie? Do you feel that justice must be served? Well then,  Write Your Own Damn Review!!

7/17/04

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