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Showing posts with label house of the dead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house of the dead. Show all posts

Monday, January 6, 2020

House of the Dead (2003)

A German Canadian American action horror directed by Uwe Boll, starring Clint Howard and Jürgen Prochnow.
Young people go to an island where a party was happening, but it has been disrupted by zombies. The outlaws who gave them a boat ride there and the cops chasing the outlaws are also drawn into the events.
I never want to see another slow motion bullet or fight move with the camera circling around what is depicted. Sadly, I will see these things again. I will also again regret watching a film based on a video game. This seemed like a 1980s campy horror flick done with 2000s technology. That is a very bad thing. At least in the '80s it seemed genuine. By 2003, characters should know to avoid blue smoke and fog at any cost. We also all know that jumping while shooting makes the bullets do more damage. I am so tired of writing about crappy movies when nobody reads it. I rate this bad. Really, don't watch it.
On a lighter note, I found an alphabetical list claiming to be every film ever made with title and year. Since I had been working on making a "movies to watch" list for so long and it has gone in so many directions that I no longer care what is on it, that is what I shall be using.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Alien Zone A.K.A. House of the Dead (1978)

An American horror film directed by Sharron Miller.
A man who is cheating on his wife with another married woman shelters from the rain in the house of a mortician who displays bodies to him and relates the story of how each person died.
This film was very difficult to track down information about. The style is definitely cult '70s and the video was extremely dark and totally blackscreened in many sections. The stories reminded me of Tales from the Dark side/Tales from the Crypt pulp horror, with characters being few in number, easy to identify and short-lived. I liked how each person was killed in a poetic or ironic manner. I'm keeping this one because it's just so rare and underground that I will not be able to see it again if I don't. I rate it o.k. because it wasn't really all that great, but the back-story of the film itself makes it cooler.