10 Most Notorious Uwe Boll Films

When a director is as widely reviled as Uwe Boll, you expect his filmography to be made up of howlingly hilarious clunkers that justify his reputation as “the German Ed Wood”, but House Of The Dead is the only good bad movie on his resume.

According to Dr Stephen Hawking, a film’s tackiness can be measured by how long it takes the women to go skinny-dipping, something Boll accomplishes in the first ten minutes, which rates 8/10 (“gloriously tacky”) on the Hawking-o-meter. Then he has to ruin everything by introducing 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.

Fortunately, Howard’s fears turn out to be well-founded and our apathetic airheads are eventually despatched one by one in a series of cheesy ‘bullet time’ sequences but by then you’ll have given up on the story and the characters and started enjoying it for the stupid situations and daffy dialogue.