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Oct 10, 2003 · DOA: Dead or Alive. June 15, 2007. Four beautiful rivals at an invitation-only martial-arts tournament join forces against a sinister threat. Princess Kasumi is an aristocratic warrior trained by martial-arts masters. Tina Armstrong is a wrestling superstar. Helena Douglas is an athlete with a tragic past. Christie Allen earns her keep as a ...
2006 1h 29m Not Rated. 4.7 (1.6K) Rate. TV Movie. After he's bitten by a scorpion carrying a zombie virus, a tough soldier survives the infection, becoming only half zombie. Once back in the US, he finds himself fighting his former comrades in arms, all of whom are turning into zombies! Votes 1,597.
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College students Simon Cruz and Greg book a boat trip to an island rave party at Isla del Morte, an island located off the coast of Seattle, Washington. Joining them are Simon's crush Alicia, Karma (who has a crush on Simon), and Greg's girlfriend Cynthia. They discover that their boat has already left for the island; Simon bribes Captain Victor Ki...
Karma (Enuka Okuma), Alicia's close friend, who has a crush on Simon.Development
DreamWorks bought the rights to The House of the Dead from Sega in 1998. The project was to be the directorial debut of Jesse Dylan, the son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The story, penned by Dylan and writer Mark Verheiden, took place in a small college town where zombies are "the hippest and most popular kids in school". After the deaths of their friends, a woman named Jenny and "a group of nerdy 'necro-warriors'" seek revenge.The project never materialized and DreamWorks lost the rights....
Casting
Jürgen Prochnow, Will Sanderson, and Clint Howard were cast as Boll had known them for "a long time". Prochnow played Captain Victor Kirk as a homage to his role as the U-boat commander in Das Boot. Boll complimented Prochnow for "[playing] a scene 10 times perfect, always [being] on his marks". Howard had roles in Boll's previous films Backwoods and Heart of America, while Jonathan Cherry had acted in the then-recent film Final Destination 2. Ellie Cornell, who plays Jordan Casper, was frien...
Filming
Filming in Vancouver commenced on May 8, 2002. The shoot was marred by rain, freezing water temperatures, and a burn injury Cherry sustained on the second day, which required the bridge scene (where his character hurts his hand) to be shot later in order to explain the bandage he had to wear.A bullet also smashed the middle of a camera lens; the team liked the shot and kept it in the film.
Reportedly, Sega planned to develop a light gun video game adaptation of the film. The Hollywood Reporter described it as separate from the then-upcoming The House of the Dead III, developed "in close cooperation with the filmmakers", and possibly using the voices and likenesses of the film's actors. The House of the Dead development team WOW Enter...
Critical reception
House of the Dead was panned by critics. On Metacritic, the film holds a 15/100, meaning “overwhelming dislike”. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 3% based on 61 reviews, with an average rating of 2.55/10. The site's consensus reads, "A grungy, disjointed, mostly brainless mess of a film, House of the Dead is nonetheless loaded with unintentional laughs."As of December 12, 2023, the film ranks #66 among the site's worst rated films of all time. IGN Movies, however, gave t...
Box office
Despite House of the Deadbeing one of few Uwe Boll films that made a profit, it was nonetheless a box office bomb. It fared better with DVD sales and rentals.
A tie-in comicserving as a prequel to the film was written and illustrated by Eli 5 Stone and published by Artisan Comics Group.
A director's cut of the film was released on DVD on 9 September 2008. The new version "features new dialogue, alternative takes, pop up commentary and animation from the original video game."
According to scriptwriter Mark Altman, the original script had numerous elements that were not featured in the movie due to budget and time constraints:This film featured Erica Durance in one of her earliest roles before she became known for playing Lois Lane on Smallville.Mindfire Entertainment has announced that principal photography for the upcoming movie based on Sega's House of the Dead series will begin in mid-May in Vancouver, Canada.
Oct 14, 2004 · Mark A. Altman, Chief Executive Officer of Mindfire Entertainment, has announced today the launch of its CFQ Films division along with the beginning of production on “ALL SOULS DAY: DIA DE LOS MUERTOS” this fall; the first in a slate of moderately budgeted genre films from the company’s CFQ Films label, a spin-off of its magazine brands Cinefantastique and Femme Fatales, which the ...
May 17, 2006 · The popular video game, Fear Effect is being turned into a feature film for Mindfire Entertainment. The action-driven movie will be faithful to the direction Eidos has taken Fear Effect, but it ...
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In 2002, Clarke contacted Mark A. Altman, the president and chief operating officer of Mindfire Entertainment, a film/TV writer and producer, the former editor-in-chief of Sci-Fi Universe and a regular contributor to both Cinefantastique and Femme Fatales, allowing Mindfire to take over their publication.
