| House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim | 
 enlarge | Director: Michael Hurst (ii)
Actors: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed Quinn (ii), Sticky Fingaz, Steve Monroe, Victoria Pratt
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 60483
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 95
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: LGED18839D
UPC: 031398188391
EAN: 0031398188391
ASIN: B000E5N69S
Theatrical Release Date: February 11, 2006
Release Date: March 21, 2006
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Product Description
A growing zombie infection overtakes an isolated university campus. Hoping to stop the spread of the infection & end of the zombie plague a secret government agency is sent in to find patient zero the original zombie from which the infection started & create an antidote. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/06/2007 Starring: Ed Quinn Sid Haig Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R
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 Better than the first May 27, 2008
Much better than the first "House of the Dead". This movie proves sequels can be better than the original, even if it isn't that good. I mean, it could NOT get worse than the first one. Contains all the requisite gore and blood of a zombie movie, has a plot and the acting is not horrid. For a TV movie this is a pretty ok effort. Somewhat following what happened in the first movie, a team of special forces (for killing zombies) infiltrates a college campus believed to be ground zero for the zombie virus. Their mission is to obtain a blood sample from patient zero in order to create an antidote. The film explains how the first one ties in to the current story and we even get one of the characters from the first movie (who had allegedly died, guess not).
Emmanuelle Vaugier seemed to have created a new acting method: the tired acting. Somehow she always appeared bored and tired, in every scene. Victoria Pratt is always a nice addition to every sci-fi movie and her acting was better than all the other actors. The movie presented situations that proved to defy logic: from being surrounded by zombies and not getting a single scratch, to zombies being electrocuted, yet will not die by a shot in the heart, and finally, the end (without giving it away)...honestly, how does one survive? Still, the movie was entertaining, better than a lot of zombie movies out there. I wouldn't mind watching it again.
 One of the worst! April 15, 2008
Completely lame with supehuman characters, i mean come on 100 zombies on top of you literally and you escape using a pen knife......LAME!!! Stupid story, even worse if that's possible than the origional. People get swarmed zombies make eating motions/sounds then the "eaten person" rises as a dead person with not wounds.....laughable.
 I LOVE THIS MOVIE! March 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
come on now,lots of zombies in this movie,tons of action,it rocked!
5 STARS BABY!
Surprisingly good schlock! December 20, 2007
I was not expecting much. I found this dvd at a local pawn shop and picked it up for four bucks.
It was worth it and then some! Admittedly, the second half suffers--as is too often the case with horror movies.
There were a couple of genuine scares along the way despite the formulaic storyline: a military team sent to deal with a zombie outbreak on a college campus.
If you love "all things zombie" like I do, you'll have to have this one. If you're not quite a zombiephile, but you like a good horror flick, get this one if the price is right. It's worth your time and some of your money!
 Not as awful as it could have been, I guess. September 17, 2007
Dead Aim: House of the Dead 2 (Michael Hurst, 2005)
Uwe Boll did not direct House of the Dead 2. Thus, almost by default, the sequel had to be better than the original. However, they installed Michael Hurst, of Room 6 fame. You get what you pay for, I guess.
Hurst (who, along with directing these two dogs, also wrote the screenplays for Edward Gorsuch's The Butcher and the funniest Sci-Fi Original Movie of all time, Mansquito) makes a movie that's less a sequel to Uwe Boll's crapfest than a totally unrelated zombie movie, and that, I have to say, was a really good decision. In this flick, a virus strikes a university, turning some of its denizens into flesh-crazed zombies. (Note: Mike, you could have done a lot with the idea of fraternity house zombies. Just sayin'.) Enter AMS, a government agency not much liked by anyone, and a bunch of soldiers. Yes, you're thinking what I'm thinking, aren't you? I kept waiting for one of the soldiers to ask if they were going on another bug hunt. The twist here is that AMS believes it can develop a vaccine if they can get blood from the first zombie, so the team has to find that first zombie.
The requisite yumness is provided by horror veteran Emmanuelle Vaugier and My Name Is Earl beauty Nadine Velasquez, and the requisite cameo is provided by Sid Haig, and other than that, honestly, there's nothing much more to say. It's typical, standard fare that doesn't stand out in any way. If you're looking for a way to kill an hour and a half, this will do the trick better than some and worse than many. *
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