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House of The Dead is the film adaptation of the light gun arcade game video game of the same name. The film was directed by Uwe Boll and was poorly received at the box office. The film was released on February 15, 2003 in North America.

Tagline: The dead walk … You run

Plot summary

This film is a prequel to The House of the Dead video games. Set on an island off the coast of Seattle, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity in the House of the Dead.

Box office

The film had a poor response at the box office with earnings of only 3 million dollars. In 2004 Brightlight Pictures announced that a sequel would be made. An offer went out to Uwe Boll to direct but he rejected it to work on BloodRayne
.

Sequel

The sequel is titled House of the Dead 2
and premiered on TV in 2006. The film is directed by Michael Hurst and the story takes place days after the events of this film.

Trivia

Several clips from the original game can be seen in the opening credits.
The film is currently on IMDb's bottom 100 list.
At the end of the film the survivors are rescued by a helicopter. As it is landing two men dressed in trench coats get off the helicopter. This is a reference to the original House of the Dead video game in which the protagonists are two special agents in overcoats.
At the end, it was revealed that the last name of the protagonist is Curien, the villain in the first game.
During the rave, the Sega logo is displayed in the background.
Several shots during the bullet time sequence resemble those in the video game.

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Movies - House of the Dead

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