10 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Horror Movies
6. House Of The Dead
When your film’s not just bad, it’s bad for a video game adaptation, you know you’ve done something wrong. Directed by Uwe Boll, possessor of one of cinema’s worst resumes, House Of The Dead set out with the lofty ambition of accurately capturing an arcade classic in which you shoot hordes of zombies with a light gun.
To its credit, the film achieved that. If watching waves of faceless ghouls getting shot to bits is your idea of a good time, then this is the movie for you. Boll dismissed criticism of the film on the basis it’s faithful to its source material, and it is - there’s a lot of guns, and little substance beyond that.
Enjoyably, the characters behave like they’re playing a video game, too: after they adjust to the shock of finding themselves on an island crawling with the undead, they quickly resign themselves to the situation, and get on with the gunplay. There’s very little horror movie tension - just a group of teens perfectly happy to spend their weekend blowing monsters to bits.