House of the Dead | 
| Actors: Ellie Cornell, Clint Howard, David Palffy, Juergen Prochnow, William Sanderson
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 68873
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: LGED22285D
UPC: 031398222859
EAN: 0031398222859
ASIN: B0016PWTVQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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Product Description
Its spring break & these typical college kids just want to have fun - killing zombies! Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
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 FUNNY VERSION OF HOUSE OF THE DEAD! October 26, 2008
Slasher Movie Fan
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a funny version of House OF The Dead, I hated the movie, but this version made it enjoyable. Buy this movie if you like horror comedied. Well, it's basically the same House Of The Dead movie with funny word bubbles. Buy it, it's funny!
 Directors Cut (comedy version) as bad as original (horror version) September 7, 2008
Micheal Hunt (Hellbourne)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This new directors cut is there attempt to take a bad horror movie and make it a comedy. Only it fails to be funny, just like it originally failed to be scary, or entertaining.
It has on the cover "you will die laughing".... false advertising, to say the least. There is nothing funny about those speech bubble/info facts popping up every 10 seconds saying something not even remotely funny.
And then the fart gags, a fart joke can be hilarious, but not when it's a fart sound effect thrown in for the hell of putting one in there. Even 3 year olds wouldn't be laughing at it, maybe a 2 year old might find it funny, but this is not a movie for a 2 year old.
Take my word on it, you will never kick yourself for avoiding this movie, I wouldn't even watch this again if it was on TV or someone paid me 100 bucks to view it.
It's eeeeevil September 2, 2008
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Uwe Boll is a director who pushes the boundaries, and makes viewers ask themselves serious questions. Specifically, he pushes the boundaries of just how wretched a movie can be, and makes viewers ask, "Why is this guy allowed anywhere near a camera?"
"House of the Dead" is the perfect example of this, as the first of Boll's still-going stream of video-game adaptations. Put simply, this movie is a perfect example of everything that is wrong in video-game adaptations, zombie movies, and trashy action movies in general. And despite the label, the funniest thing about this edition is that Boll thinks he can salvage this disaster.
A gang of twentysomethings are planning the Rave of the Century, and for some inexplicable reason, they decide to have it on a remote island called the Island of the Dead (ooh, foreshadowing! Subtle!). The boatman warns a gathering of eight young people that they are all utterly doomed, but when they show him the money, he takes them anyway.
But when they get to the rave site, they find that someone has wrecked it and is presumably lurking nearby -- and they find a mysterious house in the woods. Of course, they go inside. And then they are attacked by hordes of zombies, who are at the beck and call of an evil creature living in the House of the Dead -- an immortal conquistador. (Oooookaaayyyy....)
No, it doesn't make sense, and it never STARTS making sense. You know a movie is doomed when it doesn't make sense from the get-go. Why would they host a rave at a campsite... on a remote island... with only a few people? That's pretty brainless, even for a low-rent game-adaptation/zombie flick. But sadly, the illogic isn't the worst thing about it. Boll is.
To be honest, Boll could not have made a worse movie if he had tried. He inserts bits of the video game, seemingly at random, and tries to make up for the limp plot with lots of Matrixy slow-motion and spinning camerawork. If that doesn't make you sick to your stomach, the dialogue will: "You did all this to become immortal. Why?" "To live forever!"
And the action scenes are the worst -- not a single fight looks real, and the zombies are distinctly unscary. At times it reminded me of King Arthur's fight with the dismembered, blood-spurty black knight... except Boll is utterly serious. He's also serious when he has our spoiled brats suddenly turn into hardened swordsmen, capable of defeating an ancient conquistador.
As for this edition, you know it must be a spectacularly worthless pile of tripe if the studio acknowledges that a horror movie can only work as supposedly "sidesplitting" comedy. Specifically, it would work as a full length episode for MT3K, with all the mockery they can muster.
Unfortunately putting out a mildly edited "Funny version"/director's cut shows that they have no idea why the original was so funny -- it was because the people involved were all dead serious, and no amount of after-the-fact adjustments can change it into "Shaun of the Dead" or "Dead Alive." It apparently has different takes, cut dialogue, pop-up commentary, and even more footage spliced in from the original game -- which is like putting a band-aid over a bazooka-related injury.
Want a decent zombie movie? Try the wittier cult movies by people like Peter Jackson and Edgar Wright. "House of the Dead" isn't witty -- it's witless, from start to finish.
Geez - Not again August 23, 2008
Robert E. Rodden II (Peoria, IL. United States)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I got a chance to catch this movie on its first DVD release, and I had high hopes, since at the time, Zombie movies had not taken off sprinting like they have since the remake of Dawn of the Dead. It seemed like a great premise for a zombie film, strand a lot of college kids on an island, and then release the flesh eaters. But the characters were mostly stock let's-get-stoned, -drunk, -screwed, whatever, and then let's get eaten and become zombies. The actions of the characters seemed so contrived, I felt compelled to see if Roger Corman had published another book, this one called, "How I Made 100 Zombie Movies and Never Lost a Dime"). I'm not sure why they are releasing this movie a second time to DVD, as I found the first release more than enough to put me to sleep.
For very good zombie horror, watch any of the original Romero films, except for the very bland, unfrightening Land of the Dead. Of course the remake of the Dawn of the Dead was incredibly well done. And if you feel like squirming a bit more, try the movie Zombie (sometimes known as Lucio Fulci's Zombie 2, an homage to Romero's orignal Dawn of the Dead) for incredibly disgusting gut munching and claustraphopic feeling of being trapped on an island with the walking dead.
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