House Of The Dead (2004)
This movie begins with this group of friends who get a ride on a boat to an island for a rave. When they arrive there, they find no one and meet up with a cop, Jordan Casper (Ellie Cornell- Halloween 4 & 5), and a group of other people who where at the rave when walking dead zombies murdered everyone, turning them into zombies and multiplying there kind. The group fights the zombies with all the weapons they can (mostly guns), and barricade themselves in a house on the island.
This movie has mostly ideas that have been recycled over and over again. It uses Romero's Night of the Living Dead premise, where the gang is locked inside the house with zombies trying to break in. Director Uwe Boll adds in clips of the video game in between shots to remind us of the film's basis, which is pretty dull if you think about it, but it gives it a bit of a unique edge. The acting is mostly horrible, except for Jonathan Cherry (Final Destination 2, They) and Clint Howard, but the rest of the actors are your basic Friday the 13th stupid teenagers who can't act their way out of a paper bag. The movie serves up a lot of gore, so it makes up for some of it's flaws. I hope to see a bit better from Uwe Boll in his upcoming "Alone In The Dark" film that is, again based on a video game.
All in all, the story is overused and getting dull, the acting is mostly terrible, the dialogue is dumb, but it's still one of those movies you can still like for what it is, despite it's flaws. It can be enjoyable, just don't take it seriously. 6/10.
This movie begins with this group of friends who get a ride on a boat to an island for a rave. When they arrive there, they find no one and meet up with a cop, Jordan Casper (Ellie Cornell- Halloween 4 & 5), and a group of other people who where at the rave when walking dead zombies murdered everyone, turning them into zombies and multiplying there kind. The group fights the zombies with all the weapons they can (mostly guns), and barricade themselves in a house on the island.
This movie has mostly ideas that have been recycled over and over again. It uses Romero's Night of the Living Dead premise, where the gang is locked inside the house with zombies trying to break in. Director Uwe Boll adds in clips of the video game in between shots to remind us of the film's basis, which is pretty dull if you think about it, but it gives it a bit of a unique edge. The acting is mostly horrible, except for Jonathan Cherry (Final Destination 2, They) and Clint Howard, but the rest of the actors are your basic Friday the 13th stupid teenagers who can't act their way out of a paper bag. The movie serves up a lot of gore, so it makes up for some of it's flaws. I hope to see a bit better from Uwe Boll in his upcoming "Alone In The Dark" film that is, again based on a video game.
All in all, the story is overused and getting dull, the acting is mostly terrible, the dialogue is dumb, but it's still one of those movies you can still like for what it is, despite it's flaws. It can be enjoyable, just don't take it seriously. 6/10.