The first “House of the Dead” film was a true abomination because not only was it a completely horrendous film but it had next to nothing to do with the games. “House of the Dead 2” is a more generic bad movie that at least feels like the makers were at least vaguely trying to capture a few elements of the games.

A team comprised of scientists and soldiers is sent to a university campus to hunt zombies and rescue survivors after a terrible outbreak. As the team make their way through the corridors and blast through endless hordes of the undead, they find what may potentially be the means of developing a cure for the virus.

The acting in the first movie was truly horrifying while the acting here is more conventionally underwhelming. Probably the worst performance in the whole film comes from Sticky Fingaz (“Flight of the Phoenix”, “Next Friday”) as Dalton. Sid Haig (“House Of 1000 Corpses”, “The Devil’s Rejects”) has a small role as Professor Curien, who you may remember as the villain in the first game. The zombies are very generic and unimpressive. Thankfully, they don’t repeat the issue from the first film where they kept flashing up images from the games to remind us how the zombies looked nothing like the ones from the arcade games.

“House of the Dead 2” is just another bad zombie movie. It blends in with the endless sea of 2000s zombies films such as “Land of the Dead”, “Against The Dark” and the “Resident Evil” movies. Maybe it was a good thing that director Uwe Boll (“House of the Dead”, “BloodRayne”) did not return for this sequel because it is undeniably better than the first. If you really love zombie films then maybe you’ll get a few kicks out of this but that’s it.