10 Behind-The-Scenes Movie Stories Better Than The Actual Plot

Here's the Uwe Boll story you were promised, and it will not disappoint - unlike an Uwe Boll film.

Let's set the scene: Post-production was still undergoing on Boll's film House of the Dead, arguably one of his best films with a 3% on Rotten Tomatoes. Boll decided he wanted to make a film based on the classic game Alone in the Dark.

Rights are purchased, writers are brought in to fashion a treatment - writers familiar with the game franchise. All the while, they keep checking out Boll's earlier films, which he had proudly sent them on VHS (this appears to have been in 2004, mind you). With each round of e-mail correspondence between them and Boll they became increasingly frustrated - what was a game about atmospheric tension and being 'alone in the dark', Boll wanted to turn into an action-packed schlog.

The writers asserted that Boll specifically told them to steal ideas from other movies - citing the fact it also seemed to be a motif of his earlier films. One writer, Blair Erickson, related that Boll's movie Sanctimony is just a rip-off of the movie Se7en, but as an "inept, half-assed, cliched pile of confusion".

In the end, Boll secured Christian Slater, Tara Reid, and Stephen Dorff to star in a film that scored a whopping 1% on Rotten Tomatoes. Erickson's article about working with Boll is far-and-away better than any of Boll's actual films.