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The Top 7... Worst scenes in Uwe Boll movies

Cinematic crimes from the director gamers love to hate

Words: Mikel Reparaz, GamesRadar US



The game: A sexy half-vampire continues to fight vampires, this time in the present day.

The movie: A sexy half-vampire travels to a muddy 19th-century American hicktown, where Billy the Kid (who turns out to be a vampire, and also possibly Transylvanian) has set himself up as a kind of child-devouring warlord. To defeat him, she has to gather a band of three allies, two of whom get killed almost immediately and you know what? Screw this movie.

The worst scene: Like In the Name of the King, BloodRayne II’s muddy, miserable Western misadventure is overshadowed by two impossibly hammy performances. The first comes from Zack Ward. He appears in Postal as Postal Dude, but you probably know him as redheaded bully Scut Farkus from A Christmas Story. Here, he plays Billy the Kid, who isn’t a skilled gunfighter so much as he is a vampire who likes to murder children and speak with what we’re guessing is supposed to be an Eastern European accent.


Above: Thees accent, eet ees - how do you say? – fake 

The other performance comes from Chris Coppola, who also appears in Postal – but we’ll get to that in a minute. In BloodRayne II, he’s Newton Pyles, a fat, floppy whiner of a journalist who may or may not be a parody/direct ripoff of a character from Unforgiven.


Above: Gosh, I’m just so happy to have arrived here in Vancouver. I mean the West! The Wild West! 

Way too much screentime is devoted to Pyles, who quickly toadies up to Billy the Kid in the hope of getting a cool story to tell his readers back in Chicago. And whenever the two are onscreen together, the whole production suddenly stops being a grimy, horror-themed Deadwood knockoff and turns into a cartoon. A really lame cartoon, where everything’s stiffly animated and the characters are all voiced by Casey Kasem.


Above: 'Gack! Splut! Please don’t kill me, I’m far too wacky!'


Above: 'Yes, Mistair… Pyles. You are indeed wacky. I shall make you my… side-keck' 

Nowhere is their onscreen chemistry more visible than in the awful, awful clip below:

Now, what does this have to do with half-vampire chicks fighting Nazis again? Oh, right: NOTHING.


 
61 Comments
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Tasty_Pasta  - 1 year 2 months ago 
First! Wow I hate Uwe Boll. Tunnel Rats will be shit.
CuddlyBomber  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Holy crap yes! Thank you G-Radar for acknowledging are best friend Uwe's overall shittyness.
Holy Diver  - 1 year 2 months ago 
There must be some people here who watvh his movies. Studios wouldnt let him direct if his films didnt make any money
MW3M  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Bloodrayne 2 went straight to DVD. Any Uwe links there?

That said.. Postal the movie looks like big crispy dumb fun....
Gahmah  - 1 year 2 months ago 
look to the left

still seems better'n dat wee music.
Themis  - 1 year 2 months ago 
The House of the Dead is TRULY AWFUL. The worst I've seen. When I first saw the game footage spliced into the action scenes, I knew I'd witnessed a new low not just in big-screen videogame adaptations, but in the history of cinema.

There are moments where it is so bad that you can't help but speculate as to whether it isn't actually a genius parody of horror films.

It is not.
TheSuburbiaRuins  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Haha amazing top 7 Mikel, love it.
I love the music they play during the HoftheD sequence, it so doesn't fit at all.
And who knew people could die from getting shot in the dick? You learn somethin new everyday
Cynwyddon  - 1 year 2 months ago 
7 pages? How dare you do such a wrongful thing yet again, Gamesradar. I'm going to plagiarize this and post it on hundreds of forums without a single link or mention of the original source. Take that, 7pageRadar.
GamesRadarMikelReparaz  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Yeah, we're not crazy about the 7-page thing, either, but unfortunately it's not our call right now. We can, however, try to pack each page with enough stuff so that you don't feel cheated, which is what I hope I've done here.
iluvmyDS  - 1 year 2 months ago 
He summed it up, "I hate video games". As if we didn't know that already. Douche.
Cynwyddon  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Oh my, I apologize for my crude joke. I actually like that there are 7 pages, I prefer clicking to scrolling. Anyway, great article, I could never figure out why everybody hated this guy. I guess I simply needed to see some of his horrible work for myself. At least now I didn't actually have to pay for it.
bioshocker  - 1 year 2 months ago 
My uncle has worked on a bunch of these movies. He also worked on Farcry which he thinks won't change boll's reputation.
Tochy  - 1 year 2 months ago 
"I hate,videogames..." *falls*
otakupunk  - 1 year 2 months ago 
thank you gamesradar for giving me another reason the hate uwe boll
that crap he said about asians just pissed me off
NelosAngelos  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Hell better have a nice little spot for this guy when he gets sent down there.
kicking222  - 1 year 2 months ago 
That scene from "BloodRayne" might actually have the worst blood/gore/dismemberment effects I've ever seen in a "legit" film. That is... incredible. Wowwie wow wow.
Tymiegie  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Of course.... He hates video games. That's why he feels he has to make God-Awful game-based movies. It's so everyone else hates video games as much as he does
slickmcwilly  - 1 year 2 months ago 
The BloodRayne one made me totally just start hysterically laughing. That is one of the most unprofessional movie scenes I have ever witnessed.
BHT128  - 1 year 2 months ago 
I almost killed myself during the house of the dead vid, and nearly wet myself during the "Terrifying" special effects of Bloodrayne.
Fokker1138  - 1 year 2 months ago 
I haven't watched any of his movies outside of Postal, but as far as the comments of "no good goddamn reason", did he even play the game? That's pretty much the theme of Postal and Postal 2, random violence. It's a fun game just for the sheer mindlessness of it, sort of like going on a destructive bender in a GTA game. I think the movie was fairly true to the game and I enjoyed the absurdity of it.
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