Allegedly based on the popular videogame franchise of the same name, “House of the Dead” is all the proof you need that movies based on videogames are a bad idea. We also quickly learn that director Uwe Boll, the man behind several film adaptations of videogames including “BloodRayne”, is one of the worst filmmakers out there.

This movie is supposedly based on the popular arcade shooter of the same name but it seems to have as much connection to it as any other zombie movie. If it were not for the constant clips of the videogame popping up, one could easily be fooled into believing they were watching something not inspired by a computer game.

The acting in “House of the Dead” is terrible but it’s not even the amusing type of terrible. Nobody in the film is memorable and the zombies couldn’t possibly hope to pick them off fast enough. The dialog is all absolutely atrocious and it’s amazing to think a human being wrote the script. The zombies in this film look incredibly generic and are therefore woefully bland. None of them look anything like the ones from the videogame and that presents a real issue when we’re constantly reminded of what the ones from the games look like.

The aspects of the film that just tipped me over the edge were the appalling special effects and the editing; whoever edited this film doesn’t just need firing, they need locking in an insane asylum. “House of the Dead” is certainly worse than “BloodRayne” and it’s probably the worst adaptation of a videogame I’ve ever seen and that’s saying something when a movie is up against “Max Payne” and “Silent Hill: Revelation”. “House of the Dead” is so bad that you feel as if you’re the victim of a crime and not a single person (living or dead) should have to sit through it.