10 Most Notorious Uwe Boll Films

It doesn’t matter if you plan on watching Uwe Boll’s latest film or giving it the widest berth possible – the German filmmaker swears that Rampage: President Down will be his last movie.

Dubbed the “dark god of bad video game movies” by Time Magazine, Boll’s retirement was greeted with predictable cheers and caustic comments that drowned out his message. “The market is dead,” the director said. “You don’t make any money anymore because the DVD and Blu-Ray market worldwide has dropped 80 percent in the last 3 years.”

Describing streaming as “just a big wave of movies flooding around” where “you have no impact”, Boll paints a grim picture of filmmaking in 2016. If an established (and it must be said accomplished) filmmaker struggles to finance, release and make a living from his own movies, what future is there for up and coming independent filmmakers? Or diversity in film in general?

Are we heading for a Transformers future? Watch this space.

In the meantime, here are the 10 movies Boll will be remembered for, from the good to the bad to the so bad they’re good.

Max Seed is one of those huge, brutal, unstoppable killers you see in dime-a-dozen slashers, but Boll isn’t interested in making that kind of picture – he’s making a “serious” movie about man’s inhumanity to man (or something).

The results are often unintentionally funny. After going to the chair for 666 murders, Seed digs his way out of his grave and, despite an unfortunate resemblance to Leatherface, manages to wander around Vancouver without being seen. In the opening moments, the character is introduced to the viewer watching real footage of animal abuse that an onscreen caption explains is intended to make a statement about humanity.

One of the most bizarre scenes is a dream sequence where Detective Matt Bishop (Michael Pare, a Boll regular) finds himself riding on a bus with the masked killer - in broad daylight, no less. Despite his appearance, Seed is playing with the child of a fellow passenger who ignores Bishop’s warnings until – and this is where most audience members walk out – Seed smashes the child’s head against a handrail.