20 Video Game Movie and TV Moments That INSULTED Fans

Nobody loves adapting video games for the big screen more than director Uwe Boll, unfortunately he’s not any good at it. Over the last two and a half decades, he has brought us bargain bin versions of Bloodrayne, Alone in the Dark, Dungeon Siege, Postal, Far Cry and, of course, horror rail shooter House of the Dead.

Now, arguably House of the Dead is the best game series for Boll to helm, because it was always something of a Resident Evil knock off, and yet the film manages to be just bad bad, rather than cheesy, fun, so-bad-it’s-good bad. We join a trip to the Isla del Morte, where students Rudy, Simon, Greg, Alicia, Karma and Cynthia (Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Will Sanderson, Ona Grauer, Enuka Okuma and Sonya Salomaa) get more than the all-night rave they bargained for. Arriving late and finding the site trashed and abandoned, it becomes apparent that zombies have taken over, and they’re going to have to fight if they want to get home.

This disaster of a B-movie does enough wrong to merit pretty much any moment being singled out for ticking the game’s fans off, but the most egregious issues actually involves the games themselves. And that’s because Boll opted to intercut the action with actual shots from the video game, jarringly snapping between the film’s reality in a universe where the games don’t exist, to some other, non-diegetic space where they do…