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House of the Dead (2003) – Awfully Good Horror Movies

By Cody Hamman

Posted 4 years ago

Uwe Boll is planning to Return to Zombie Island with a "sort of" sequel to his 2003 video game adaptation House of the Dead

Last month, our new video series Awfully Good Horror Movies got started with a look at the awful-but-good 1993 cult classic Leprechaun. Now the second episode is online, and with this one we’re pointing out the awfully good charms of 2003’s House of the Dead (watch it HERE). The movie that began director Uwe Boll‘s streak of video game adaptations. To find out what we had to say about this one, check out the video embedded above!

Directed by Boll from a script crafted by Mark A. Altman, Dan Bates, and Dave Parker, House of the Dead has the following synopsis:

Simon and Greg meet a group of friends and set out to attend a rave on a remote island. When they miss the ferry, they decide to ride with Kirk, a smuggler. They find the island deserted and discover that the partygoers have been killed by zombies. Now, the group must evade the deadly creatures and try to find safety. However, the only means of escape — Kirk’s boat — has been overrun, forcing the survivors to ward off the undead.
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The film stars Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer, Ellie Cornell, Will Sanderson, Enuka Okuma, Kira Clavell, Sonya Salomaa, Michael Eklund, David Palffy, Jürgen Prochnow, Adam J. Harrington, Colin Lawrence, Steve Byers, Erica Durance, Jay Brazeau, Bif Naked, Kris Pope, and Elisabeth Rosen.

With the Awfully Good Horror Movies series,

we take a journey through the world of “so-bad-it’s-good” cinema in the horror genre. We’ll provide you with some fun trivia, details on the production, and some food/drinks to go with it. So join us for some schlock as we go through the who’s who of terrible horror cinema!

The House of the Dead episode of Awfully Good Horror Movies was Written by Emilie Black, with Tyler Nichols both Editing and Narrating. The show is Produced by John Fallon and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

The first episode of Awfully Good Horror Movies and a sample of a couple of the other shows we have on the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel can be seen below. To check out more of our shows, head over to YouTube – and subscribe while you’re there!

Over on the JoBlo Originals YouTube channel, they’ve been running a series called Awfully Good Movies for a while – you can check out the playlist at THIS LINK.

Source: Arrow in the Head

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About the Author

Cody Hamman

Horror News Editor

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Favorite Movies: The Friday the 13th franchise, Kevin Smith movies, the films of read more George A. Romero (especially the initial Dead trilogy), Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, FleshEater, Intruder, Let the Right One In, Return of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead, Jaws, Tremors, From Dusk Till Dawn, Phantasm, Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, Back to the Future trilogy, Dazed and Confused, the James Bond series, Mission: Impossible, the MCU, the list goes on and on

Likes: Movies, horror, '80s slashers, podcasts, animals, traveling, Brazil (the country), the read more Cinema Wasteland convention, classic rock, Led Zeppelin, Kevin Smith, George A. Romero, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Richard Linklater, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, James Bond, Tom Cruise, Marvel comics, the grindhouse/drive-in era

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