10 Most Sacrilegious Video Game Movie Moments

6. House Of The Dead - The Whole "Rave" Thing

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If you thought Alone in the Dark was bad enough, be grateful that you may not have sat through this.

Uwe Boll's first disastrous attempt at game-to-screen should have warned anyone off letting this man sign a multi-film contract (looking at you, Ubisoft). But here we are with House of the Dead, AKA The Dance Party Backstory Nobody Ever Wanted.

Whilst making a movie adaptation in spooky dwellings would have smacked of "Resident Evil rip-off", why Boll thought the pretext to the events of the game should be set on an island hosting a rave is anyone's guess.

Sure enough, we got treated to some backstory about the island being home to a naughty 15th century Spanish pirate. One that dabbled in zombies and immortality serums, before some dastardly kids decided to host a rave, which awakens him and his horde.

It's all a big load of garish guff that's tenuously setting up one of the characters to be the big bad from the games, but the execution is just awful.

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