10 Zombie Films You Should Die Before You See

1. House Of The Dead

House Of The Dead Uwe Boll achieved instant notoriety with this video game adaptation, which if nothing else has a shot at being the best bad movie of the last twenty years. When they€™re not drinking beer or wandering around naked, a group of €˜teenagers€™ recruit a sailor named Captain Kirk and his hook-handed assistant to take them to Isla Del Morte (€œthat€™s Death Island in case you don€™t speak Mexican€), little realizing that their rave has been interrupted by the dead returning to life. This leads to randomly inserted video game footage, cheesy €˜bullet time€™ effects ripped off from The Matrix and voice over intended to plug gaps in the narrative, all of which suggests a straight-to-video movie that lucked out with a theatrical release. If you forget the plot and just enjoy it for the stupid situations and dumb dialogue (€œYou created it all so you could be immortal €“ why?€ €œTo live forever!€), then House Of The Dead is by far Boll€™s most entertaining film. In a perfect world, all €œbad€ movies would be this much fun.
 
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'