LordMangusZombie writes in the following review, "Is being a while since I wrote something in English, so that means I'm very, very rusty.
This past Saturday I got a chance to see the premiere here in Puerto Rico of House of the Dead. The good news is that the movie is very funny and entertaining, but is not perfect.
The story is about this kids that go to this island to celebrate the biggest rave party ever. But of course they don't know that the undead is roaming the island craving for some young, tender and drunk human flesh.
Now what makes this movie different from the rest of the zombies movies in the market? First of all this suckers can move, I mean every time the zombies where going to attack they where running all the time and jumping long distances.
So don't wait some slow moving hungry undead moaning all the time.
Another thing is that you don?t turn into a zombie if you get bite by one. I mean, isn't that like a zombie rule? How do they turn you into a zombie? Well lets just say somebody has create a....zombie potion...I can't wait to buy one of those.
Changing the subject, for some reason the directors of the movie decide to put parts of the video game into the movie, especially between action scenes. Why they decide to do this? Well is beyond me, but they slow down things. Actually everybody in the movie theater was laughing when this 'interesting' gaming scenes appear.
That had to tell you something.
Mmmm, now that I think about it, is funny how a couple of young kids can turn from the scary type into the "let's kill everything that moves types."
You can see this from the start of the movie until the turning point. All of them are scared and are only thinking of a way to escape from the island alive. But, as soon as they get their hand on some good ol' guns they suddenly feel like Arnold Schwarzeneggerr in Commando.
This is actually the coolest part of the whole movie. You have around six people with all type of guns trying to reach this house. What's the catch? Well around 60 fast moving zombies are guarding the house. What is the result? Heck a lot of mayhem, blood and fast violence hampered a little bit by the over use of the Matrix Slow Motion effect.
The acting is surprising good from this type of movie and you cared for them as soon as they start shooting any rotting moving corpses on site.
What?s the final verdict? If you are looking for a gory, bloody, disgusting zombie movie, then rent Zombie.
If you want a fun movie that you can go and enjoy with your friends then House of the Dead is for you."
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This movie was terrible. I was ready to walk out but my girlfriend wanted to stay and watch it. The video game cut scenes were ridiculous, the actors weren't acting. It was just a all around bad movie. i give it a 3/10. the three for the few hotchicks that got topless and thats about it
This movie sucked badly, all of the suuden they get guns and for some reason some of them became martial arts masters out of nowhere, ill give it a 2 stars since some of the girls looked good topless!
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"A lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths." Deep Throat.
Wrong, so could the "zombies" in the equally pathetic "28 Days Later".
This movie was such a horrible hack job. They took the storyline from the live action "Scooby Doo" movie, threw in some cheesy Matrix bullet time cinematography, added some sterotypical "raver" kids, and some nudity. Nothing new at all.
I'd almost recommend "Cabin Fever" over this, even though it is a hack of "evil dead", "28 Days Later", "Wrong Turn", and wasn't anywhere near as scary or gory as billed.
this move is gets a one our of ten from me... the one chick i wanted to go topless didnt. the video game thing sucked. the ridiculous 360 camera angles during the gun fight sucked. the zombies looked like thriller music video takes two. everything that can suck in a movies sucked in this one.
the only good that can come fom this movie, is to get really ****ing drunk and watch it iwth your friends... or make a game out of it, like every part that everyone thought was ridiculous take a shot... you would be smashed and pasted out by the time the movie in half way over.
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