10 Movies Made For Terrible Reasons

Uwe Boll will forever live in infamy for directing a number of atrocious movies, especially a widely lambasted run of video game adaptations that included House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and Bloodrayne.

Despite Boll's movies typically flopping both critically and commercially, he nevertheless continued to keep making them, even receiving a stonking $60 million budget to produce 2007's Dungeon Siege movie In the Name of the King.

However, it eventually transpired that Boll was able to finance his dud movies by exploiting an arcane German tax loophole, whereby investors were able to write off their entire investment and only pay tax on any profits produced by the movie.

However, Boll's abuse of the loophole ultimately only drew attention to it, and by 2006 the German government had closed it up, ensuring Boll had to then seek more conventional funding methods, such as his own money.

As such, it's little surprise that Boll never saw a $60 million budget again, with most of his subsequent movies costing just a few million dollars each and largely failing to secure major theatrical releases.

Boll retired from filmmaking in 2016 to become a restaurateur, citing diminishing financial returns, though announced a return to the director's chair last year, with several new projects currently in the works.