It wasn't that bad, not that low budget either. Who liked it?

I agree, for a buck or $3, it's worth a watch. I just got to thinking how 'we' all got so jaded in what we like and what we don't like and what it takes to shock/scare us, to like a film, and what qualifies as a 'cult classic' in our mind. Certainly, seeing hundreds, if not thousands of films, over 25 years, can affect the way one sees/appreciates a film, so you can see how we can differ in our opinions on various movies.



"The Film which you are about to see is an account of a tragedy that befell a group of five youths.."

Totally set up for a younger audience, true.....





"Now, I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a coupla titties!"

And then you've also got people defending the movie for preying/taking advantage of a certain demographic who haven't had the exposure to movies that are actually of decent quality.

"This movie is generally crap, but all the suckers out there who haven't seen decent films on the same subject matter may like it so I respect the film for that."

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I had the 'pleasure' to watch this flick last night.

I can relate with you I_Madman, to some extent. I, too grew up watching Romero´s 80´s movies, (and the other Living Dead series you refer to) etc and will always be thinking of Romero´s zombie movies as THE zombie movies. And that already shows that I may not be 100% objective here...But here it goes;

You´re entitled to like this movie as much as you want (what a cliche thing to say, I know. Especially here). But what struck me in your original post was, when you said; "It may even rival Dead/Alive..." Respectfully I have to say I find that ludicrous. For the body count and imaginative deaths, it´s nowhere close. Maybe I missed a few 'imaginative' deaths as I did lose couple of times (for some seconds) my concentration when my cat started to cough fur-balls. And as a longtime horror movie fan, and I understand you are also, I totally agree that there isn´t much more anything to shock us, the older viewers.

You think it´s not that bad nor that low budget, and that´s cool. I´m just wondering where the h3ll did the 7 mil budget go? Royalties for the game makers I presume....?! As I just can not see the SFX taking much of that cash. But I´m no movie producer.

I love campy horror. I love movies which are unintentionally bad/funny. There was a point I was telling myself, "Naah, Boll has made this just to f#ck around, as a joke. NO WAY he´s being even a little serious with this". But as more minutes rolled by, I had to accept that this was just utterly, completely, unimaginative poor movie making. What else can it be? If it was meant to shine through some tongue-in-cheek feeling, it completely failed in that one as well.

Like so many here, I have to agree with them that this movie is a disgrace for the zombie genre. Ok, ok, I gotta cut Uwe Boll some slack as HOTD is not the only rotten apple out there. But man oh man how this sucked!

PS. HOTD was my first Uwe Boll movie. I´ve been reading about Uwe Boll movies for quite some time, and just thought of finally watching at least one of his works. I wanted to make my own judgement about at least one of his movies. I seriously doubt I will watch another Uwe Boll movie. Well, maybe if someone pays me to ;) No pun intended.






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It's watchable. Jurgen Prochnow is the highlight, he certainly has the best role in the film, and has the perfect acting chops to pull it off.

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