House Of The Dead Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES
The dead walk...You run
The game has just begun!
You won't last the night
How do you kill something that's already dead? Any... way... you... can!
Are you dead or alive?
Humans versus zombies. Whose sides are you?
This film is a prequel to all of the The House of the Dead video games. Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity in the House of the Dead...
| Jonathan Cherry | Rudy |
| Tyron Leitso | Simon |
| Clint Howard | Salish |
| Ona Grauer | Alicia |
| Ellie Cornell | Jordan Casper |
| Will Sanderson | Greg |
| Enuka Okuma | Karma |
| Kira Clavell | Liberty |
| Sonya Salomaa | Cynthia |
| Michael Eklund | Hugh |
| David Palffy | Castillo |
| Jürgen Prochnow | Capt. Victor Kirk |
| Steve Byers | Matt |
| Erica Durance | Johanna |
| Birgit Stein | Lena |
| Uwe Boll |
2.00 out of 10 (11204 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Dire
posted on 26 Aug 2009Another video game-to-movie adaptation.A group of ravers travel to an island and meet the running dead.Quite possibly the worst movie of the year. I knew this horror film was bad after the first few minutes. It reminds me of those Friday 13th sequels: crap, boring, silly and not one bit scary. A major problem is that apart from one actress all of the other women in this movie are ugly. For some reason the zombies run rather than walk (done already in Return of the Living Dead). One good scene: the music video style shootout; however all that cutting to the dire video-game footage got annoying. That lead guy resembled Bruce Campbell.House Of The Dead is complete rubbish. The video game has older characters that make it more effective.
Oh man....this is bad...
posted on 26 Aug 2009I'm a big fan of splatter/horror films. Preferably from the 70's and early 80's. Films today just can't match the raw and gritty feeling of these early movies. I mean, not that they are award materials but anyone who is a fan of this genre knows what i'm talking about(i think). So, I have watched many a bad film and when i saw this film i was simply amazed. Mr Boll(BTW his last name directly translated in Swedish mean "ball", you know the round things that are used in almost every sport.) apparently had a fairly large budget and a somewhat skilled effects team(totally misused though). How in the h*ll did he manage to make such a crap movie? I simply don't know. What i do know is that he greatly surpasses ANY really bad splatter/horror movie from the past on the crap-o-meter. The acting is simply horrendous(where's the cue card anyone?), the effects are OK but as i said earlier totally misused and the only reason this movie didn't get one star from me. The script must have been assembled during some wild sex, drugs and play station evening. Please round up every copy of this movie and recycle them to make a re-release of "Plan nine from outer space".Stay WELL clear of this junk!
House of the dumb
posted on 22 Aug 2009Somewhere, somehow, someday, someone... is going to pay.The must appalling thing about this, is that morons went on to give Uwe Boll licence to mutilate both Alone In The Dark, and Bloodrayne. Some people should not be allowed near video game adaptations. He is one of them.In contrast, some people should never be allowed near Uwe Boll. For his safety. I'm one of them.However bad you think this movie is, it's worse. Do not rent it or anything even out of curiosity as you will only fund the believe they should make more crap just like it.KIND REGARDS, NEIL JAMES
DO NOT WATCH THIS!!!!!!!!
posted on 14 Aug 2009Surely the worst movie ever made!!! Everything is wrong: the plot, the dialogue, the acting... Every second of this movie is full of mistakes. The 'Matrix' scenes are awful. Every scene is a nonsense. How did the journal from that ship survived if that priest or whatever he was burned the ship? What was with the experiments he did on the island? That fish?! with teeth? And all those guns they had! It looked like they were ready to fight the dead! Incredible!!! Worst is a nice word for this movie. 1 is very big grade for this movie. So don't watch it! Don't lose a hour and a half of your life with it!
It's so bad!
posted on 12 Aug 2009House of the Dead is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I didn't finish the movie because I couldn't sit through it any more. The acting sucks the characters are stupid, the only thing that was OK was the music. I would not make someone I hate watch this movie, it's just so boring. I can't believe that someone thought this was a good idea to make into a movie.The video game is cool, so I thought the movie would at least be interesting. I was dead wrong. I am a big zombie movie fan, but this one sucks I would recommend watching Dawn of the Dead. I can only hope that the actors in this film can overcome how bad this was. Watch this movie only if you have nothing else to do, or you want to see just how bad it is. I give this movie a big fat F-!
House of the DREAD
posted on 10 Aug 2009House of the Dead is one of the worst dvd's I've rented in quite awhile! I skipped this one at the theater (for good reason!). How can I sum this pile of excrement? Let's see........ 1.The actors here make the Friday the 13th actors look like Oscar Winners. 2. It's slow, boring, and it takes way too long to get to the gore and carnage. 3. During the "orgy fight between human and the dead", you hear a rap song repeat the lyrics over and over. You'd swear your ears are hallucinating.....but they're not. 4. I love Horror films, but calling this one a "Horror" film can only be true if you make reference to the amount of time you are wasting your life with this film. In conclusion, imagine a monkey with a typewriter, and a cockroach with a movie camera. Yell "Action!", bore the audience, End credits.
Makes Gigli look like The Godfather
posted on 31 Jul 2009This is by far one of the biggest piles of crap I have ever seen. The acting was terrible and there were so many clichés it was ridiculous. This was supposed to be a horror flick but I laughed the whole way through it. The only reason this movie didn't make me want to burn down the director's house was Ona Grauer's cleavage. Other than that, this was a complete flop due to the terrible music, random video game flashbacks, horrible dialogue, and numerous other details that anybody whose IQ is above room temperature would know to leave out. One thing I would like to know is how and why the Spanish went to Oregon?!?!?!?! Do you have any idea how many supplies you would need for a trip that long? That trip involves going around South America and back up the coast of it, Mexico and most of the U.S. To sum it all up, this movie sucks.
Gilligan's Island meets Shaun Of The Dead
posted on 27 Jul 2009Laid up and drugged out, as a kidney stone wended its merry way through my scarred urinary tract, with absolutely nothing better to do than let the painkillers swoon me into semi-oblivion, I happened to catch this movie on cable. I wouldn't want anyone to think that I paid to view it in a cinema, or rented it, or – heaven forfend! – that I watched it STRAIGHT.Having played this sensationally gruesome video game and avidly trod the doomed rooms and dread passageways of The House, battling Chariot (Type 27), The Hanged Man (Type 041), and other impossible sentinels, my curiosity was piqued as to how the game would transfer to the movie screen.It doesn't.The banal plot revolves around a group of "crazy kids" – a la Scooby Doo – attending a remote island for a world-shaking "rave" – whatever that is. (You kids today with your hula-hoops and your mini-skirts and your Pat Boone…) After bribing a boat captain thousands in cash to ferry them there (a stupidity which begs its own network of rhetoric), they find the "rave" deserted.Passing mention is made of a "house" – presumably the titular House Of The Dead – but most of the action takes place on fake outdoor sets and other locales divorced from any semblance of haunted residence.A fallen video camera acts as flashback filler, showing the island in the throes of a – party?! Is that it? Oh, so this "rave" thingy is just a "party"? In the grand tradition of re-euphemizing "used cars" as "pre-owned", or "shell shock" as "post-traumatic stress disorder", the word "party" is now too square for you drug-addled, silicone-implanted, metrosexual jagoffs? It is learned that the party was broken up by rampaging zombies. Intelligent thought stops here…I don't think the pinheads who call themselves screenwriters and directors understand the mythos behind zombie re-animation. Zombies can't die – they're already UN-DEAD. They do not bleed, they know no pain. Unless their bodies are completely annihilated, they will continue being animated. At least, that's what my Jamaican witch priestess tells me.Which means that a .45 shot into their "hearts" is not going to stop them, nor will a machete to the torso. And a shotgun blast to the chest will certainly NOT bring forth gouts of blood. At least in the video game's logic, the shooter pumps so many rounds into each monster that it is completely decimated, leaving a fetid mush that cannot re-animate itself.Yet each actor-slash-model gets their Matrix-circular-camera moment, slaying zombies on all fronts with single bullets and karate chops to the sternum. Seriously, these zombies are more ineffective than the Stormtroopers from "Return Of The Jedi", who get knocked out when Ewoks trip them.I suppose the film's writer, Mark Altman, having penned the not-too-shabby "Free Enterprise", felt compelled to insert a Captain Kirk reference, in the character of Jurgen Prochnow, who must have needed milk money desperately to have succumbed to appearing in this aromatic dung-swill. There is also a reference to Prochnow's primo role in the magnificent "Das Boot", when one of the untrained B-actors mentions that he "looks like a U-Boat Captain". ". I wonder how many of this movie's target audience of square-eyed swine picked up on ANY of the snide references to other films, as when Prochnow declares, "Say hello to my little friend", presaging his machine gun moment. Aimed at a demographic who have not the wherewithal to comprehend the Sisyphean futility of the video-game concept (i.e. the game ends when you die – you cannot win), this is merely a slasher film for the mindless and mindless at heart. Accordingly, everyone dies in due course, except for a heterosexual pair of Attractive White People.A better use for this film's scant yet misused budget might have been to send the cast through Acting School, although Ona Grauer's left breast did a good job, as did her right breast – and those slomo running scenes: priceless! I especially liked the final scene with Ona trying to act like she's been stabbed, but looking like she's just eaten ice cream too fast.Attempting to do something more constructive with my time, I pulled out my Digitally-Restored, 35th Anniversary, Special Edition, Widescreen Anamorphic DVD of "Manos: The Hands Of Fate." Ah, yes! – the drugs were suitably brain-numbing - now HERE was some quality film-making…(Movie Maniacs, visit: www.poffysmoviemania.com)
House of the Dumb
posted on 25 Jul 2009There are actually two kinds of game-adaptation movies: good ones, like Resident Evil, for example, and bad ones, like... like House of the Dead. However, this was not simply a bad movie: it was more like strange, stupid, pointless, AND bad. Oh, and let's not forget dumb - from all angles.First of all, the story... let's see. A few kids are running up and down, chased by zombies, and eventually getting caught only to die a completely meaningless and unnecessary death. And this is not a plot summary, this is the whole story! I imagine the screenplay didn't have much more details than this. Then, the acting. Now that was funny... except for Jurgen Prochnow the actors were young "talents", but they didn't show much, mostly ran around screaming or shooting, before ending up dead. Fortunately the characters had no details and dimensions at all, so I didn't feel sorry for them when all of a sudden they died the most stupid way they could (one moment they were fighting like combat marines, the next they were zombie food, like if the director decided it was their turn to sacrifice themselves for nothing).Other than those, there were a few remarkable effects in the movie I can't help mentioning. Before anyone starts to guess how much it resembled the game, I tell you: a hundred and ten per cent. First of all, there were scenes cut out directly from the arcade version of the game and placed into the movie one-in-one. This means you see the kids shooting, then for a sec you get a shooting scene from the game, then you see the kids again. There were plenty of such 'tricks' here and there - how very original, artistic, and incredibly DUMB of the director... Otherwise, fights were exactly the same as in the game, but seeing it in an arcade is more entertaining than in a movie. Imagine kids with huge guns, totally unaware of their lives being at stake or their friends getting killed time after time, shooting at countless zombies swarming around them (really, there were lots of scenes where you saw one of the "heroes" in slow-motion, shooting at a zombie running at him, while there were dozens of other monsters just running around, clearly without any intention to attack). Then, throw in a few bullett time effects (or something remotely alike), where there is your hero shooting/kicking/grinning, and the camera goes around him like in the player selection of any prestigeous arcade game. This looks good in the one-millionth episode of the Mortal Kombat series, but come on, are we doing a movie here or what? Dumb again.Finally, a few words about the genre... just to see clearly. Horror... there was a significant amount of blood for sure, but the zombies looked more like old men and women, and seeing them chewing on the characters was laughable at most. Thriller - why so? I was not afraid a bit, only astonished by all this movie had to give. Mystery, now that's true: in the last 10 minutes or so, the remaining heroes uncovered an old legend connected to the zombies, which, however, didn't play any role at all in the plot. It just... WAS. And, to say the least, it was DUMB. Action? I give you that. There was plenty of it, from all kinds: all-out, frontal, gunpowder-smelling, sweaty, bullett-timey, arcade action. Dumb and pointless, that's true, but actionindeed.What else should I say? I would recommend this movie to any who wants a good laugh at a stupid zombie flick with poor acting and no story. Otherwise - you may as well skip it and see a real horror movie.No secret: 1 of 10
Use your money for the arcade game
posted on 21 Jul 2009Thank god I saw this movie for free. I feel sorry for someone that payed a dollar for this, let alone full price.I went in with low expectations. I figured it would be slightly worse than Resident Evil, which was bad but semi entertaining.This movie makes Resident Evil look oscar caliber. It's really, really bad. The dialogue is bad. The acting is bad. It's just a mess.Clint Howard tried too hard to be a bizarre character. And Ellie Cornell, who was beleivable in the Halloween sequels, seems to be struggling to remember her lines.Intersplicing video game footage with battles was lame. Having bad music pumping during battles was lame. Having casual chit chat between battles was lame. And c'mon, a Sega rave party on a deserted island! If this was made in the early 80s I guess it would be an Atari break dance party.And talk about overusing the bullet time effect!! Hello, 1999 just called, and they don't want you anymore. Feel free to join us in 2003 at any time really.
Worst zombie movie ever... The very bottom of the barrel
posted on 21 Jul 2009Stupidest movie I ever seen and believe me, I've seen a lot of bad movies. This isn't even a bad movie that's funny because it's bad, it bad plain and simple (even painful to watch really). The story is very basic and there is no such thing as suspense or unexpected events it isn't even scary. I particuliarly couldn't believe the scene where the teens go back to some sort of abandoned house on the island and they start to kill the zombies... the scene is on slow motion with cheap matrix like effects and it goes on for at least 5 long, very long minutes. This movie was apparently based on a video game (I don't know the title)and the producers keep flashing in-game footage throughout the film. If you're a Romero fan, avoid at all cost. If you're a stupid teen who wants to see gore and a few pairs of boobs... well I don't care. I sincerelly can't believe I paid to rent this...
So bad its......
posted on 19 Jul 2009Actually reasonably enjoyable, but in a comic book, silly kinda way. This is by no stretch of the imagination a good movie in any sense, but you cant help but laugh yourself silly through most of it. Plot line is this: A group of ravers travel to an island near Seattle, an island known as Isla del Morte (Island of the dead, and my Spanish spelling is likely incorrect). Once they arrive, they find the biggest rave of the year deserted. Why? they find out once they stumble upon survivors and are shown video footage of what happened. This is really an elementary movie, poorly written by Mark Altman (who did one of my favorite films, "Free Enterprise") and equally poorly acted by the mainly unknown cast. Along with Jurgen Prochnow, Ellie Cornell ("Halloween" 4 & 5) and Clint Howard (Ron's brother) are the only names I recognized. I really don't expect much from Clint (and he certainly delivered in that area) but Ellie and Jurgen usually do a little better than they showed here.Johnathan Cherry is really dull as Rudy, Tyron Leitso's Simon is an irritating little weasel, Ona Grauer's Alicia is really nice to look at, but not much else...so on and so forth.Lots and lots of pop culture references, including a mention of George A. Romero and the possibility of a 4th "Dead" film. See this one if you're a Romero fan...please...its a zombie movie and if the industry thinks thats what we want, then we'll get George's final vision that much sooner. This is just not a good movie, but if you're like me and enjoy giving the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" treatment to bad films, you should see this one. 1/2 out of 5
A good 'bad' movie
posted on 19 Jul 2009Some say that making a video game into a movie premise is simply not possible. Video games just have a harder time since A) Nothing has changed peoples minds about the issue about video game movies being trashy throw away entertainment and B) Video game movies thus far HAVE primarily been trashy, throw-away entertainment. But look what else has been turned into movies successfully: Pirates of the Caribbean (a theme park ride), Transformers (a line of toys), Alvin & the Chipmunks (a high pitch vocals singing Christmas songs), etc... Whether you liked the films or not, these examples have all been commercially successful, meaning that, with enough ingenuity and a good writer(s), ANYTHING can be turned into a 'successful' movie. Maybe video game movies have just doing something wrong all these years...'House of the Dead' first of what has been (and is sure to be) the rocky marriage between video game movies and filmmaker Uwe Boll. Based on a rail-shooter (where the movements and directions are predetermined by the game, all you have to do is point and fire), 'House of the Dead' is not a particularly deep game to begin with. The premise of the video games is typically a detective looking for someone, fighting their way through hordes of the undead and the undead's friends. Mr. Boll's film is about teenagers going to a rave and eventually find themselves fighting an zombies. Rather than using an original idea, Boll and the writers go for a well-worn, tried and true 'horny and stupid teenagers up to no good, find selves in supernatural trouble' path. Everyone in the film is a stereotype, and the actors know it. In the first two minutes upon character introductions, you can tell who lives and who dies. The premise, though over used, works for the film, in a super trashy way.The parts only equal the whole in the film, because most of the parts are so small compared to the glue which holds them altogether; the jaw droppingly inane, over the top action sequences. Yes, the movie is missing direction, acting is sub-pare, and special effects are hilariously bad. But it all works! The movie has recently been re-released as a 'funny' version of the movie. I have yet to view it, but there is nothing as charming as the original film: it takes itself seriously and is completely UNself-aware. For 90 minutes of brisk 'bad' movie fun, you can do a lot worse, but a viewing with a few friends, it could be one for the ages.
The Worst Horror Movie Ever Made
posted on 13 Jul 2009For the love of God, avoid this like the plague. I'm a horror movie fanatic, and own tons and tons of really bad, cheesy stuff along with all the classics. So believe me when I say: This is easily the most excruciating 90 minutes I've ever spent. Do not waste your time or money. I pity the poor suckers who paid 20 or 30 bucks to BUY this on DVD. ouch! Putrid. One of the worst movies ever made - how on Earth this can get a major theatrical release, while a great film like "MAY" plays in only a few theatres with barely any publicity is beyond me.
OMG!
posted on 05 Jul 2009Its completely sad and pathetic that reading the user comments and bitter soliloquies about HOUSE OF THE DEAD is waaaaay more entertaining than the damn movie! The movie WAS all of the things everybody has mentioned so far, and the video game was SO much better and had a more coherent/believable storyline. The inexplicable cuts to the video game, especially when the clips are from the future if you're trying to follow the story at all, were aggravating to say the least. I don't know how theaters work around the world, but I'm glad that I was able to get my money back, if not my wasted time. If you're a fan of killer tomatoes and Ed Wood then you MIGHT appreciate this schlock, but if you were looking for a good/decent horror movie, STAY AWAY!
OH! MY! GOD!
posted on 15 Jun 2009Please, let me be the last person to watch or write about this KRRRRRRapp. There is nothing - NOTHING - good about this. I guess they had too much money to spend, so they made this.Oh yeah. SPOILERS ahead. But who cares. There's nothing surprising or twist or revelation or anything here.How many times have we seen the characters at the begining being warned not to go to a particular place but still do? Too F#$@ing many! Are you Americans THAT stupid? Don't you feel offended when people made movies like this? Oh, it's ok because this balances out what you have potrayed Red Indians, Germans, Russians and Arabs?oh yes, Guiness Book of Records. I think you may find THE longest AND POINTLESS shoot out ever in a film in this one.I bought this movie because I thought I wanted to give this a chance, like I did with Resident Evil. Although a flop, but still enjoyable, IMHO. I feel violated when watching this. Oh, how I cleansed myself right after!So, no. No matter what people say. No matter what your heart says. DON'T GO NEAR THIS RUBBISH.
the return of ed wood!! RUN!!
posted on 05 Jun 2009After watching this "bollwork" three times to see all the goofs and laugh my belly hurt i decided to warn all the people out there, NOT TO WATCH this piece of uninspired and awful movie(does't even earn this word!!)workAs an Austrian it is always nice to see Europeans doing a good job in Hollywood, Ballhaus, Emmerich, Petersen etc..and now it is really a shame, that this man calling himself a doctor..is making movies one after another. To my mind he should stop it, now!..it can't get worse and i am sure, it can't even get better...he won't learn it anyway!!This movie is full of goofs...weapons changing from one cut to the other, horrible dialogs, embarrassingly done action scenes..and the best of all: this "director" tried to invent the style of game-based movies in a different, new way..there are scenes from the GAME..graphics rendered by the old arcades cut between the scenes..completely foolish!!! So, if your party is getting boring and your guests need something to laugh about..take house of the dead..and they willa) never come back again b) need heavy medication c) die of laughing their lounges outthis movie should have the subtitle: plan 10 from outer space Peter KriegPS: UWE, if u should read this: go get yourself the DVD of "exhibitionisten attacke", made by a man as "professional" as u are: JOCHEN TAUBERT. it is almost better than your piece of crap!
Makes the game look like an Oscar winner. No, seriously.
posted on 01 Jun 2009"House of the Dead" is a great game. It may have ripped off "Resident Evil," but by that logic, you can say "Resident Evil" ripped off George A. Romero, and so on. So when I INITIALLY heard that they were making a movie based on one of my favorite first-person shooter games, I was excited. But then I read over and over again how horrible it was, and decided to wait until it was on cable rather than blow money on it in the theater. When I finally saw it, I realized that there were no words to describe how horrible it was. Since it's based on a video game, I never expected an Oscar winner, but for God's sake - I've seen some BAD movies based on video games, but this one is even worse than "Double Dragon," and believe me, that's pretty bad. You almost have to TRY to make a movie this bad.Uwe Boll, you need to stop making movies. Seriously - I think people go to Hell for making movies this bad. After seeing this, "Alone in the Dark," and "BloodRayne," I'm convinced that directing just isn't for you. In the meantime, here's a reality check:1. Using the Sega logo at the rave was pointless. Honestly, what band is going to have Sega as a sponsor? The New Kids On The Block reunion tour? 2. Placing young rave-goers in a sudden horrific predicament doesn't automatically make them highly-trained counter-terrorism operatives.3. The game is called "House of the Dead," not "Shack of the Dead." The house in the game is an enormous mansion, not some dilapidated pile of crap in the middle of no where.4. Having Clint Howard repeat his dialog in a weird voice was just annoying as all Hell, not creepy or funny, whichever you were going for. Just let Clint Howard be Clint Howard.5. I got the "U-boat" and "Captain Kirk" jokes concerning Jürgen Prochnow. THEY SUCKED. In fact, not a single joke was funny in this movie.6. If people want to see scenes from the game, they'll pay fifty cents to play it, not six dollars to see them as cut scenes in a movie.7. The zombies didn't run in the game. Why should they in the movie? Face it, Boll - you're no Zack Snyder.8. Making zombies the leading authorities on tree-grabbing doesn't make them scary.9. Chances are that ancient Spanish explorers would be speaking Spanish to each other, not English. Ever hear of subtitles?10. The mere mention of the genius of George A. Romero in this cinematic waste is almost unforgivable.As for my fellow movie-goers - especially compulsive lovers of zombie films, such as myself - if you have absolutely NOTHING else to do, you might want to check out "House of the Dead" for a few laughs. Nothing else. And for the love of God, if you have to see it, see it on cable; don't rent it. I've seen plenty of excellent zombie films as well as plenty of excessively cheesy ones, and I'll tell you right now, S. William Hinzman's "Flesheater" was better than this one. At least that one didn't try to be something it wasn't - a cheesy zombie film. A comatose barnacle could make something better than this. The very fact that Uwe Boll didn't direct "House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim" implies that there may actually be hope for it.
This movie was so bad that...
posted on 28 May 2009Other IMDb denizens have done justice to this steaming turd, so I'll just say this: UB's HotD was so bad that the SciFi Channel (an American cable channel who'll play just about any low-budget shlockfest) should be supremely embarrassed if they ever put this on their rotation. It continues to stun me into weakened submission that anyone in their right mind would hand this retarded gibbering baboon the money to film a *radio* commercial, let alone any studio movies. Save yourself some supreme agony and rent Super Mario Bros instead - that was a masterpiece of video-game-filmology compared to pretty much anything Boll is capable of dreaming up.
Simply...terrible! - SPOILERS
posted on 26 Aug 2009This has to be one of the worst films ever made in American history. I would sit through it, awaiting an actual scene of originality, and unfortunately come about nothing. Acting, quality, story ( wait a second...what story?!), and every other aspect of film seemed to be diminished to lowest possible level anyone could possibly think of.Five teenagers, request a boat trip over to the island cleverly known as "Isla de Muerte" or "The Island of Death"(by the way, that was sarcasm). When they arrived to the island where the party of the year is supposed to be located at, they find absolutely no one (what a surprise!). The extremely smart teens think not too much of the disappearances before they are attacked by zombies that appear to be normal people with a little make up on (which they are!), and before you know it, they are in a situation of life and death in which seems to be more visible. As you can see, this is a story you have never before seen.The film is supposed to be based on the video game by the same title, which I have to admit is wildly entertaining, but the movie highly lacks the same feeling. It is so awful that you begin to laugh at the story and actions the people begin to take. The captain holds his wet finger up to determine the appearance of a storm, the cop named Casper and her partner with the name McGuyver, and of course the pathetic zombies that appear to be lost on set, all add to this humor that I speak of.One of the incidents in the movie I thought was funniest is a moment where Greg is with Casper and they are suddenly attacked by a swarm of zombies. Casper, the armed one, tells Greg to run and save himself. Of course Greg runs away and is chased by many zombies, and in the end doesn't make it ( If you think I spoiled a part of the plot, I didn't. You find out who dies within the first five minutes of the movie.). Casper returns to the group and is asked about Greg and she can only respond with "He didn't make it." If Greg had just stayed with the person who had the gun, he would have lived like she did. Then you begin to realize that she must have just sent him away to take the zombies away from her. This is what happens after you watch the movie. You try to make more sense than there actually is. You try to make it more clever and simply hope that people couldn't have made a movie as bad as it is!Whatever you do, do not wastes 90 minutes of your life on this film in which your IQ will literally drop as you watch it.