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The House of the Dead: Overkill


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: Haven’t we been through this already?


Above: DURRRRRRRRRR 

The movie: We’ve already given this one its lumps. Let’s just move on.


Above: HURRRRRRRRRR 

The worst scene: We’re not sure what’s more depressing: that Kid in the Hall Dave Foley decided Uwe Boll should be the director he did full-frontal for, or that – according to Boll – it was Foley’s idea. We just know that he’s walking around looking fat, depressed and floppy, and that that’s not even the worst thing about this scene.


Above: We’re not prudes or anything, but company policy forbids us from showing you what’s under that sticker 

No, the worst thing is Chris Coppola, who mugs and wails his way through the scene as Foley’s insufferable right-hand man, Richard. Foley (playing cult leader Uncle Dave) walks around naked, takes a dump, lights up a joint and goes back to bed without so much as flushing, but it’s Coppola’s hammy, exaggerated reactions to all of this that push the scene from just “kind of gross” to “Jesus Christ, is this still going?”


Above: This shot pretty neatly sums up the entire scene 

Yeah, OK, we get it. Shit stinks. Naked bosses make people uncomfortable. But does he really need to whine and yell and stick his fingers up his nose like nobody ever does in order to get that across?


 
62 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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