The House of The Dead - RELOAD!

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What do The Bushwackers, Borderlands 3, The Matrix, and Zorro have to do with the 2003 "cinematic experience" that is Uwe Boll's first video game adaptation: The House of The Dead?

Squidge and Jay sat down to discuss Uwe Boll's The House of the Dead. Is this movie worth watching? Is it even any good? What's with the LED eyes? And did SEGA really sign off on all of this?

psst. we've actually done a bunch of these "goes to the movies" episodes. Check this page to see all of the released specials.

Here's a sample of the full show notes - make sure to click through and check them out.

Content Warning

Due to the nature of the movie we talk about in this episode, we’d recommend that you don’t listen to this one with little ones around.

This film (whilst also being pretty dreadful) contains nudity, swearing, violence, and pretty badly acted out zombies.

We've also left in all the swears, as it's an episode about a horror film.

Please listen responsibly.

Show Notes

Our amazing intro was performed by Morgan Ritson, definitely check him out for similarly amazing stuff

We decided to change up the format of our "goes to the movies" episodes. Instead of working through the plot, we decided that it would be much more fun to focus on a handful of scenes from the movie. This serves the double purpose of:

• Simplifying our episodes, and getting to the gags quicker
• Not having to discuss the plot which this movie doesn't have

With that said, we jumped to jump straight into a description of this movie...

Basic Info on the Movie

We didn't even get through our introductions before Jay started complaining about this movie

The dynamic range compression in this movie is almost non-existant
- Jay

In fact, the audio issues in this movie made Jay "do The Bushwackers thing", which is the walk that the legendary pro-wrestling tag team did on their way to the ring.

Squidge sets the scene by reading the IMDB plot summary for this "cinematic experience":

A group of college students travels to a mysterious island to attend a rave, which is soon taken over by bloodthirsty zombies
- Squidge

and that's about all that really happens in this movie, to be fair. However, the 1978 movie with a similar name sounds pretty good:

A 1978 film consisting of four short stories about a man who takes refuge from a thunderstorm in the residence of a mortician
- Squidge

Initial Thoughts

Remember that this movie is based on a 1996 on-the-rails arcade shooter which takes less than 26 minutes to get through. Sure, there was a story but it was essentially:

On December 18, 1998, AMS Agent Thomas Rogan receives a distress call from his fiancée Sophie Richards from the Curien Mansion. Rogan and his partner "G" fly to Europe and arrive at the estate, finding it overrun with undead creatures, which Dr. Curien unleashed

Like, that's literally it.

Seriously, there's so little plot in this game that the arcade cabinet takes 28 minutes to get from booting to completion.

The ADR (Additional Dialogue Replacement) in this movie is off the charts:

This is ADR: the movie
- Jay

With all of the important dialogue being recorded on set, with a microphone which was located two galaxies away, and all of the un-important dialogue - the grunts, screams, and such - being replaced with ADR.

And if you want to read Jay's notes, you can by clicking here. Warning: he took this notes whilst watching the movie, and was several beers in by the time he got to the 36th minute mark.

it was the only way to survive this "cinematic experience"
- Jay

Full Show Notes

Make sure to check out the full show notes for more discussion on the points we raise, some extra meta-analysis, some out-of-context screen grabs from the movie, and some links to related things.

Are you a fan of the Silent Hill games? Have you seen this movie before? If so, what did you think to it? Would you fling it into a tree? If not, are you likely to watch it now?

psst. we've actually done a bunch of these "goes to the movies" episodes. Check this page to see all of the released specials.

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Links

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• House of The Dead on IMDB
• houseofthedeadmovie.com
• Double Dragon - Witty Remark Here
• Our other Goes to the Movies episodes
• Trancers

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