10 Most Notorious Uwe Boll Films

Here’s a movie you don’t want to make the mistake of watching at Christmas: set entirely within a prison, Stoic tells the story of three male prisoners who humiliate and torture their cellmate before faking his suicide.

Shot with hand held cameras and mostly improvised by the actors, Stoic provided Boll with a change of pace after years of adapting video games, and it’s a very different picture from the movies that made his name. He comes off as a filmmaker who’s good with actors and knows how to ratchet up the tension, which is not something you’d expect from the director of Alone In The Dark.

More horrifying than most horror films, Stoic is one of Boll’s darkest and most uncompromising films, and while it’s a (deliberately) difficult watch, it also never collapses into cliché and caricature. If credited to another filmmaker, the movie would’ve garnered some serious attention.