10 Biggest Video Game Movie Flops
9. House Of The Dead
Budget: $12 million
US Box Office: $10, 249,719
Senselessly intercut with video game footage, full of actors who look like they wish they were somewhere else and loaded with hilariously awful dialogue, House Of The Dead is the Citizen Kane of bad video game movies. It deserves to be resurrected on the midnight movie circuit alongside Troll 2 and Plan 9 From Outer Space.
The story (cough) involves a group of pinheads who not only think nothing of attending a rave on Isla Del Morte (“that’s Death Island in case you don’t speak Mexican”), but also hire Clint Howard’s hook-handed sailor and Jurgen Prochnow’s Captain (named Kirk) to take them there. Does Death Island live up to its name? Do you even have to ask?
What The Critics Said: “Bafflingly bad to the point of being oddly charming.” (Austin Chronicle)