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Director Uwe Boll has a reputation as one of the worst film directors of all time. In the mid-2000s, he helmed a string of well-publicized but critically savaged video game adaptations that immediately sunk to the bottom of cineastes' estimations. In 2003, he made "House of the Dead," and followed that in 2005 with both "Alone in the Dark" and "BloodRayne." He chased those with "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," "BloodRayne 2: Deliverance," and "Postal" all in 2007, and capped off his run in 2008 with "Far Cry." Fans of the games on which those films are based were incensed that Boll should so clumsily handle the source material, and fans of the cinematic medium were incensed that

Despite his critical reputation, Boll has remained prolific, sometimes helming multiple pictures a year. He directed "First Shift" and "Bandidos" in 2024, and is set to release "Run" in 2025.

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As part of his comeback tour, embattled actor Armie Hammer is ready to gear up and dole out some justice as the star of Uwe Boll‘s latest feature, The Dark Knight. Principal photography for Boll’s vigilante thriller begins in Croatia on January 27, with Hammer eager to step into the scene.

According to Variety, The Dark Knight is based on an original script by Boll, with Hammer playing Sanders, “who takes justice into his own hands as he sets out to hunt down criminals. While his crusade transforms him into a social media sensation and a hero in the eyes of the public, the local police chief sees him as a menace to society and aims to take him down.”

“The story of ‘The Dark Knight’ couldn’t be a more current topic, and I’m excited to bring it to life with this excellent cast,” said Boll about his latest endeavor.

After missing out on the chance to play Batman in George Miller's defunct Justice League Mortal, Armie Hammer will finally get the opportunity to suit-up as The Dark Knight. Well, a Dark Knight.

Hammer, whose career came to a screeching halt in 2021 following some pretty disturbing allegations of sexual misconduct, is set to play the lead in a movie called The Dark Knight from director Uwe Boll, who has previously helmed classics such as BloodRayne, House of the Dead, and Alone in the Dark.

The Lone Ranger and The Social Network star was accused of sexual abuse (involving cannibalistic and Bdsm fetishes) by several women, but The Los Angeles County D.A.’s office decided not to file any charges against the actor following a lengthy investigation by the LAPD.

Based on an original script by Boll, Hammer has signed on to play Sanders, a man "who takes justice...

While Tarsem Singh is currently enjoying the The Fall, Distribution Woes, and the Next Chapter”>recent restoration of his cult classic The Fall, he’s still seeking distribution for his last film Dear Jassi. In the meantime, he’s moving on to his next project, set to begin shooting next year. Deadline reports he’ll direct Dev Patel in The Journeyman, a crime thriller scripted by the husband-and-wife duo of Bryan and Alexis Roberts, aka The Roberts. The film will tell the “story of a struggling pro tennis player who is lured into an illegal match-fixing ring to support his family and finds himself trapped in a ruthless world of corruption and violence he may never escape.”

In a small update, Julia Ducournau is in production on her mysterious Titane follow-up Alpha and a report from France gives a few more details, noting the title is the name of the female main character,...

A good portion of Paul W.S. Anderson’s filmmaking career has consisted of video game adaptation, with his writing and/or directing credits including Mortal Kombat (1995), Monster Hunter, and six Resident Evil movies. Now, Deadline reports that Anderson is adding another video game adaptation to his filmography, as he is set to write and direct a film version of the Sega game The House of the Dead. Originally released in 1997, The House of the Dead spawned a franchise that includes several sequels and spin-offs, as well as a remake. Uwe Boll directed a film adaptation back in 2003, and that received a sequel in 2005 that was directed by Michael Hurst.

In the game, players take on the role of Ams agents, a government agency tasked with thwarting the conspiracies of organizations that threaten the world. The title comes from the bureau they work for, because their life expectancies are brief. Anderson...

If you've ever set foot in an arcade, then you'll probably have encountered The House Of The Dead, Sega's legendary light-gun shoot 'em up. Famed for bringing running zombies to the turn of the millennium and helping spawn the zombie horror gaming boom alongside Resident Evil, the mainline Hotd franchise has spanned five games — and two woeful movies — to date. But, per Deadline's reporting, the undead hordes are now preparing to run back to the big screen once again courtesy of game-to-screen veteran Paul W.S. Anderson, director of Mortal Kombat, Monster Hunter, a fistful of _Resident Evil_s, and of course Event Horizon.

Pitched as a real-time horror emulative of the experience of playing a House Of The Dead game, Anderson's movie — which the director will produce alongside longtime collaborator Jeremy Bolt — is set to follow the plot of the third game in the series. Speaking to Deadline,...

After an infamously disastrous version in the early 2000s, House of the Dead is getting a second chance at an adaptation from Paul W.S. Anderson. The Sega action-horror franchise puts players in the shoes of a variety of protagonists as they make their way through a house full of zombie-like creatures, utilizing an on-rails system to keep the player moving through each level. House of the Dead was previously adapted by Uwe Boll in 2003, but is regarded as one of the worst movies of all-time, holding a 3% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Deadline has brought word that Anderson is teaming with Sega for an adaptation of House of the Dead. The filmmaker of Resident Evil fame will be writing, directing and producing it alongside his partner Jeremy Bolt, Sega's Toru Nakahara, Story Kitchen's Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Dan Jevons, while Timothy I. Stevenson will executive produce.

Over 20 years after Uwe Boll turned the video game The House of the Dead into a horror movie, Deadline reports that Paul W.S Anderson is making a House of the Dead movie of his own.

Paul W.S Anderson will write and direct the new adaptation of Sega’s zombie game, which debuted back in 1997 and spawned a franchise as well as a remake in 2022. That original game, along with Resident Evil, is credited for kickstarting the zombie resurgence of the time.

Deadline recaps, “In the arcade game, players take on the role of Ams agents, a government agency tasked with thwarting the conspiracies of organizations that threaten the world. The title comes from the bureau they work for, because their life expectancies are brief.”

“I’ve loved the video game since the nineties,” Anderson tells Deadline. “Back then I was a big player of video games in arcades, which...

Exclusive: Paul W.S. Anderson will write and direct The House of the Dead, an action-packed feature based on the legacy Sega franchise.

Anderson will produce alongside his partner Jeremy Bolt, Sega’s Toru Nakahara will produce along with Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Dan Jevons. Timothy I. Stevenson will be executive producer.

Anderson and Bolt have brought several game franchises to the screen successfully, including Mortal Kombat, the Resident Evil franchise, and most recently Monster Hunter.

The House of the Dead debuted in 1996 as an “on-rails shooter” game, fast-paced action/horror with a groundbreaking zombie premise. That included the innovation of giving its undead villains the ability to run, something that inspired films from Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake and Marc Forster-directed World War Z. It was The House of the Dead that first evolved the flesh-eaters from the lumbering stumblers that...

It’s an interesting time to write about video game adaptations, especially in light of the Borderlands disaster.

The entire point was to talk about the colossal leap forward in game adaptations from the days of the Bob Hoskin Super Mario Brothers absurdity to Amazon Prime’s Fallout.

The latter is sitting on 16 awards and nominations, while the former remains the butt of jokes, memes, and gifs to this day.

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Once upon a time, Hollywood just wanted to cash in on a popular video game franchise.

Quality be damned. While the money factor hasn’t changed, Tinseltown now knows the audience is hypersensitive to adaptations of beloved franchises.

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For many gamers, the mere mention of The House of the Dead series evokes a strong sense of nostalgia. This classic light gun shooter franchise from Sega has been a staple in arcades and home consoles since the mid-90s, introducing countless players to the thrill of mowing down hordes of zombies with pinpoint precision.

Now, as fans eagerly await the release of The House of the Dead 2: Remake on Nintendo Switch, a growing sentiment has emerged within the community—the series is long overdue for a proper VR installment! The fast-paced, visceral gameplay and immersive environments seem tailor-made for the VR experience, yet Sega has yet to capitalize on this vast, untapped potential.

Another Rating Appears, Hinting at an Imminent Release The House of The Dead: Remake was released in April 2022. | Image Credit: MegaPixel Studio S. A.

Megapixel Studio and Forever Entertainment first announced The House of the...

Konami may get a bad rap for having squandered the Silent Hill franchise in the years leading up to the recent series renaissance (which is set to culminate in both a big budget remake of Silent Hill 2 as well as a new Christophe Gans film), but there was a time when the company was criticized for releasing too much Silent Hill media in an attempt to keep the IP fresh in consumers’ minds.

While some of these franchise expansions were obvious cash-grabs, others experimented with the cursed town in ways that we’ve yet to see again. And in honor of the new Silent Hill experiences set to grace consoles and cinema screens in the upcoming year, today I’d like to look back on a collection of forgotten spin-offs from the 2000s that I think (mostly) deserve more love.

The idea of visual novel ports and primitive mobile...

For every horror movie that turns into a massively profitable hit, there are plenty more that didn't light up the box office. In fact, they continue to be made with such frequency in part because their budgets are usually low enough that it's pretty easy to recoup expenses with anything other than a total disaster. Still, there are plenty of times when horror films don't perform as well as expected. Sometimes they are reassessed years after release with much more favorable results, and the horror genre is rife with box office flops that became cult classics and underrated "masterpieces."

But then you've got the true, out and out stinkers. The films that couldn't even keep up the pretense of being merely a disappointment, and led their studios to pull them from theaters prematurely in an effort not to send good money after bad. Their downfall could have been a result of controversy,...

Recent reports suggest Capcom is preparing to remake more Resident Evil games. It’s hardly a surprising report given both the quality of those recent remakes and the cultural power of the Resident Evil franchise. However, it is a reminder that Resident Evil has historically achieved a level of success that has eluded pretty much every other horror game franchise. The genre has long lived in the wake of Resident Evil, and it’s been that way since the ’90s when the first Resident Evil made such a seismic impact that much of what followed was called a clone.

Because of that, some of the earliest and most fascinating horror games have largely been ignored or otherwise forgotten about. They may not have come anywhere close to replicating Resident Evil‘s success, but if you ask me, these forgotten ’90s horror games are more deserving of a remake than any...

With five seasons and a movie, Bungo Stray Dogs has been running just long enough for anime fans to want to make sure they know what they’re getting into before they start. No worries! Not only can I assure you that Bungo Stray Dogs is worth catching up on, but I’ll also be breaking down the different storylines and even calling out the flashback arcs and episodes you might want to watch first if you want to binge the anime series in chronological order. Stick around to learn more about the different timelines and how to watch Bungo Stray Dogs in order so you can figure out the best way to enjoy the series. How to watch Bungo Stray Dogs in order Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Welcome to Yokohama (Episodes 1-7) Facing the Port Mafia (Episodes 8-11) Bungo Stray Dogs Season 2 The Dark Age American Expansion A Day...

The recent critical acclaim for HBO’s The Last of Us and the box office success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie have sparked a wave of optimism. Could this be a turning point for video game adaptations?

Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller in The Last of Us

For decades, such adaptations have struggled to capture the essence of beloved games and translate them effectively to the cinematic medium. Despite Hollywood’s persistent efforts to turn popular video game characters into cinematic heroes, the vast majority of these adaptations have fallen flat.

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While some triumphed, most of them were unsuccessful. We share 10 of the worst video game adaptations to date.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (2010)

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The best disaster movies on Prime Video depict humanity facing nature's wrath with thrilling, high-stakes stories. Disaster films show characters trying to save the world or survive amid a natural disaster, offering huge thrills. From survival tales to apocalyptic comedies, the diverse approaches to disaster films on Prime Video provide intense entertainment.

The best disaster movies streaming on Prime Video tap into one of humanity's greatest and most revealing fears: the inevitable end of the world due to natural causes. Indeed, though highly overplayed in Western cinema, natural disaster stories perfectly lay the groundwork for characters and plots that tackle the very limits of human perseverance. In the face of Mother Nature's wrath, only the strongest survive - yet even those resigned to their doomed fates have stories worth telling. As seen with some of the genre's offerings on Prime Video, there are a lot of approaches to such a story.

If you’ve been keeping up with The Test of Time, you have probably learned what the rules are in terms of what we tackle. Those rules, of course, are that there are no rules whatsoever and we cover whatever sounds good or we think would be an interesting topic. In the Mouth of Madness (watch it Here) came out in Italy in late 1994 and that means, gulp, that movie is now 30 years old. It came during an interesting time in the master of horrors career when he was running flop after flop and being disappointed by studios interference and stars that weren’t willing to be true collaborators. It’s the ending of a loose trilogy and in some people’s estimation his last great film. Is In the Mouth of Madness a tale that stands the Test of Time, or should it be put in the bargain bin...

Ah the early 2000s. The Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube were the hottest videogame consoles around. Limp Bizkit, Smash Mouth, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, and Usher were ruling the airwaves and little did we know we would be blessed with tons of horror video game movie adaptations as well. Granted, some weren’t that great, looking at you House of the Dead, Doom and Alone in the Dark. But there also were some fun films from this genre…Silent Hill and Resident Evil. At the time, both weren’t exactly loved by critics, but they did have their fans and have each spawned sequels. Today, we’re looking at the first Resident Evil (watch it Here) on this episode of Horror Revisited.

Let’s start back in January 1997. Resident Evil had already released on the Playstation One to critical fame as well as being adored by gamers. A German Production...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

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Leonardo as Creature from the Black Lagoon Figure from Neca

Leonardo as Creature from the Black Lagoon will join Neca’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles X Universal Monsters toy line in January. Pre-order are up for $34.99.

Packed to the gills with accessories, the 7” scale action figure comes with six interchangeable hands, two harpoon katanas, attachable wrist bone blade, and turtle. It’s packaged in a window box with opening flap featuring art by Daniel Horne.

This is the line’s eighth release, following Raphael as Frankenstein, Leonardo as Ygor, Michelangelo as The Mummy, April as Bride of Frankenstein, Splinter as Van Helsing, Donatello as The Invisible Man, and Casey Jones as The Phantom.

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Sony's upcoming Gran Turismo movie will blend gaming and real-life experiences. Based on the acclaimed PlayStation video game franchise of the same name, the coming-of-age racing film is inspired by the true story of Jann Mardenborough. When offered the chance to take part in a real professional race, the avid Gran Turismo player wins a series of video game competitions to live out his dream. Voyagers' Archie Madekwe stars as Mardenborough, and Stranger Things' Police Chief Hopper David Harbour portrays his trainer Jack Salter.

Speaking with Total Film (via GamesRadar), Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp explained how his new film will blend gaming and real life. In an attempt to translate Mardenborough's love and proficiency of the Gran Turismo video game into real-world racing, Blomkamp revealed he virtually "overlays" the character's perspective into reality. Read what the director said below:

“I was trying to think of a way to...

Historically, horror movies have tended to have lower budgets than films in other genres. A large part of this is probably due to the origins of the genre. Slasher films become something of a cultural phenomenon in the 1970s, when movies like "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and "Halloween" in many ways revolutionized the film industry. Such films were usually made on the cheap and relied on clever practical effects and location shooting to deliver the onscreen goods. But what really made these films so influential is that from these modest origins, they killed at the box office, revolutionizing the genre as we know it today.

Since the 1970s, movies of all genres have gotten more expensive to make, and not all of these films can earn back their production costs. While horror has remained an extremely popular genre both in the States and worldwide, scary movies are just as...

With The Super Mario Bros. Movie pulling in record breaking numbers this weekend, we wanted to know what movie based on a video game has been your favorite. If you don’t see your favorite, click “Other” and let us know in the comments.

Favorite Video Game MovieSuper Mario Bros. (1993)Double Dragon (1994)Street Fighter (1994)Mortal Kombat (1995)Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)Wing Commander (1999)Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)Resident Evil (2002)Lara Croft: Tomb Raider- The Cradle of Life (2003)House of the Dead (2003)Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)Alone in the Dark (2005)Doom (2005)BloodRayne (2006)Silent Hill (2006)Doa: Dead or Alive (2006)Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)Postal (2007)Hitman (2007)In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)Far Cry (2008)Max Payne (2008)Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)Tekken (2010)Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)Need For Speed (2014)Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)Warcraft (2016)Assassin’s Creed...

Video games have been a huge part of popular culture for decades now, particularly following the home console boom in the '80s. In all that time, few games have endured quite like "Tetris" has. It's become an absolute staple of this era, with people playing the simple yet addicting game for hours on end on the original Game Boy, the Nes, or at their nearest arcade. So, perhaps it's only fitting that, in an era when video game movies are finally starting to click in a real way, this beloved title would finally get the big screen treatment. No, it's not an adaptation. Rather, it's more of a biopic in the form of director Jon S. Baird's "Tetris," which arrives on Apple TV+ this week. In a roundabout way, it instantly earns its place as one of the greatest video game movies to date.

"Tetris" is an incredibly...

Video game adaptations: one of cinema’s most hated-on subgenres. Whenever another beloved controllable franchise is announced for moviegoing treatment, eyes roll. Critics quiver. Visions of Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne or Uwe Boll’s crimes against both gamersphere credibility and audience standards montage a hard-fast argument for such scoffs.

Fantastical play-alongs turned theatrical try-hards have long become the butt of many online jokes, and while titles such as Detective Pikachu and both Sonic the Hedgehog films disprove “cursed” trends, I’d argue that not all video game adaptations are created equal.

Horror video game adaptations maketh the best video game adaptations, and that’s by an Arklay country mile.

“But Matt…House of the Dead?”

Holster your light pistols and lower your torches. No subgenre is free of a few spoiled Yoshi eggs. Yes, Alone in the Dark should have been left alone, in the dark. House of the Dead...

Its retirement is long overdue anyway, but the raves given to HBO's The Last Of Us should finally kill the all video game adaptations "suck" argument to rest. Video games are still a relatively young art form, and it took a little time for them to reach their storytelling potential. First and foremost, a game should entertain with its mechanics and gameplay, but titles such as Silent Hill 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Red Dead Redemption and many more proved they could tell fantastic stories too. In 2013, the original The Last Of Us game joined that list.

On the surface, The Last Of Us may have looked like another zombie apocalypse game, but aside from its absorbing gameplay, it featured great acting and a heartbreaking narrative too. It didn't take long for rumors of a movie adaptation to arrive, but despite filmmakers like Sam Raimi being attached, a film version didn't come together.

Boll is marking his return after seven years with an action thriller titled ‘12 Hours’.

German director Uwe Boll is making his filmmaking comeback with two features in the works.

After a seven-year hiatus from the industry, that included setting up a restaurant in Canada, Boll is marking his return with an action thriller titled 12 Hours. The feature follows a man who returns with his family to Cape Town, South Africa, for his mother’s funeral, only for his whole family to get kidnapped, leaving him with 12 hours to kill five people to get his family back.

It will be produced through Boll’s outfit,...

Among many other things, the Game Boy line of handheld hardware legitimized the concept of gaming on the go. The quality of the original Game Boy hardware itself inspired developers everywhere to pursue ambitious new ideas that changed the handheld gaming landscape forever. Of course, just because the Game Boy legitimized the handheld gaming scene doesn’t mean that there weren’t plenty of developers looking to use that legitimization as an excuse to get weird with things.

Yes, while so many of us spent our years with the Game Boy line playing classics like Tetris and Pokémon, those who ventured off the beaten path may have discovered a few oddities that defied logic. Whether those games got you through long car rides and waiting rooms is something only you can answer. What I can tell you is that anyone who played some of the wildest and weirdest Game Boy games likely never forgot them.

The new year is continuing apace at Hulu. The streamer’s list of new releases for February 2022 is highlighted by one very interesting project.

Pam and Tommy is set to premiere on Feb. 2. Perhaps the Groundhog Day release date is intentional as the show will cover a particular moment of celebrity, sex, and exploitation from the early ’90s that seems to have repeated itself over and over. Sebastian Stan and Lily James star as Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson and the series follows the events and fallout of their homemade sex tape being stolen and unleashed on a nascent internet. If nothing else, getting the promo photos of Stan and James as the ’90s stars was worth it.

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Fernando Díaz’s Machaco Films and Roxana Ramos’ Aramos Cine have partnered to set up a joint venture: La Puerta Roja, focused on horror and fantasy movies as well as working with prominent genre directors from Ibero-America. Both companies are based in Buenos Aires.

The idea sprang from Machaco and Aramos’s co-production partnership on Demian Rugna’s next project “When Evil Lurks.” Machaco had already produced Rugna’s “Terrified,” awarded at the Austin Fantastic Fest among a flurry of international kudos, and whose remake rights were acquired by Guillermo del Toro.

A cinema-tv production company, Machaco Films was founded over 20 years ago. Productions include Fernando Díaz’s “Soul’s Square,” and Rossana Díaz Costa’s “Trip to Timbuktu” and “A World for Julius,” based on Alfredo Bryce Echenique’s same-titled novel.

As for Aramos, it has raised international expectations with Alexi Tolstoy’s short story adaptation of “Vurdalak Blood,...

It’s summer, everyone! And with its relatively sparse list of new releases for July 2021, Hulu seems to be subtlety imploring its subscribers to go outside.

Don’t get us wrong: Hulu’s library offerings get a big upgrade this month. July 1 sees the arrival of great films like Galaxy Quest, Fargo, and Caddyshack. Bill and Ted Face the Music premieres on July 2 and its followed by Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar on July 9. Not bad stuff! It’s just that, outside of the library titles, there isn’t much to go off of.

Hulu’s only major original release this month is the FX on Hulu production American Horror Stories on July 15. As its name implies, the show is a spinoff of American Horror Story and will feature self-contained horror episodes rather than a season-long arc. If you’ll allow this geriatric millennial to deploy one truly ancient meme: “Yo dawg,...

Doom is, without a doubt, one of if not the best First-Person Shooters (Fps) of all time. The highly influential game arguably kick-started the entire shooter genre, and its latest games are about to do the same again. The franchise’s cinematic outings, however, are nowhere near as good. Despite being one of the most important games ever made, Doom inspired note one but two underwhelming live-action adaptations.

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They may not be as terrible as the second Silent Hill movie, but many see Doom and its Direct-To-Video reboot Doom: Annihilation as more fodder for any arguments made against video game movies. But let’s cut these movies some slack; after all, they did some things better than Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead. So without further delay, here are five things that Doom did right and five things that Doom: Annihilation did better.

Hulu is kicking off the new year with a mix of new and old movies and TV shows that will be added to the streaming service in January.

Reality series including “The Bachelor,” “Project Runway” will release this month, along with “Cooks vs. Cons” and “Cutthroat: Kitchen.”

On the film front, “13 Going on 30,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Forrest Gump” and “Little Miss Sunshine” are arriving early in January.

Several children’s classics will be added on the platform as well. “Dennis the Menace,” which stars a young Mason Gamble as a neighborhood hooligan, and the animated saga “An American Tail,” starring an adventurous mouse named Fievel, will be available to stream.

See a complete list of movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in January 2020:

Jan. 1

Bring It!: Season 4

Brockmire: Season 3

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Deputy: Series Premiere

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Yes, folks, you read that header correctly, the original House of the Dead and its sequel are officially getting the remake treatment.

News of Sega’s classic arcade games being revived first made headlines last week via Polish website Graczpospolita, which stipulated that studio Forever Entertainment would be overseeing the series’ return to the limelight. The developer has since confirmed via social media that it has in fact signed an agreement “regarding remakes of the games,” though sadly, not the platforms on which the pair will appear.

“No platforms or release dates have been confirmed,” reads the statement, adding “unfortunately we can’t say anything more for now. Please keep fingers crossed for us and follow our official channels.” That final sentence is a strange one, for sure. From the wording, it’s clear that the remakes are either in the early stages of development or work is yet to commence,...

Video game arcades might be a thing of the past but as anyone pushing the age of 30 or older could tell you that they used to be plentiful. Lightgun shooters, in particular, are no doubt responsible for consuming the Gdp of a small country in coins during their heyday and one developer, it seems, is keen to remake a classic of the genre.

Sega’s long-dormant House of the Dead series is one such member of the largely dead sub-genre, but that looks set to change in the near future. Forever Entertainment, the studio currently hard at work on remaking another historic Sega intellectual property, Panzer Dragoon, for Nintendo Switch, is said to be eyeing up the original House of the Dead and its sequel as the next to receive a much-needed facelift.

The news comes by way of Polish website Graczpospolita, which reports that both titles will boast completely...

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Secrets of Sinister House takes us back to Red Rain Batman just in time for Halloween.

Fifth weeks are odd beasts in the comics world. They throw off the natural rhythm of comic publishing, with one book every two or four weeks, and end up stacking some months ane leaving others barren. Fortunately, comic companies have found fun and creative ways to deal with them. Like having Bill Sienkiewicz ink a John Romita Jr. drawing of Vampire Batman from Red Rain chasing down a possibly envampired Joker.

Secrets of Sinister House is, like all of DC's seasonal anthology books, 80 pages of short stories, in and out of continuity, with mix and match creative teams that let us get introduced to some new creators and duck back into favorite continuities. Included in this anthology are:

- Rafael Scavone and Rafael Albuquerque telling a story with the above-mentioned...

It wasn’t that long ago that the Resident Evil series fell out of favor with both the fans and critics alike. After the massive success of Resident 4, the developers seemed to lose sight of what made gamers fall in love with the series in the first place.

Resident Evil 5 and 6 were not well received and both games instead decided to focus on blockbuster-style action and set pieces rather than horror. Even though the games played similarly to Resident 4, they lacked any of the tension and excitement of that game.

Resident Evil 4 was a landmark title that was an influence on titles like Dead Space, Gears of War, and even the Uncharted series. Unfortunately, the cost of trying to replicate the success of the fourth title came at the price of innovation and by the time Resident Evil 5 was released it already felt old and clunky compared to newer titles.

Looking for something Halloween-y that is currently streaming on HBO Now? You're in luck, because HBO has released a list of films streaming on the app all month long, including Hannibal (2001), Predator (1987), It (2017), Alien vs. Predator, and much more! Also: details on Johnny Gruesome's original song "Dyin' Tonight" by Robby Takac from the Goo Goo Dolls, Sleep Tight's crowdfunder, and release details for Valentine DayZ and Butterfly Kisses.

HBO Now's List of Currently Streaming Halloween Movies: Press Release: "This October, HBO Now has a whole cauldron of the spookiest horror flicks to keep you in the Halloween spirit all month long including film franchises such as Hannibal Lecter, The Omen, Wrong Turn, and more. Fill up your plastic pumpkin with candy galore, grab a caramel apple and bring on all the scares with these killer Halloween blockbusters.

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The summer of 1989 takes a terrifying turn when Pennywise, an evil...

Uwe Boll is the quintessential go-to when talking about the worst directors working today, rightfully being called the modern-day Ed Wood. Between movies like Alone In The Dark, House Of The Dead, Bloodrayne and In The Name Of The King the man has more movies that have gotten under 10 percent on Rotten Tomatoes than any filmmaker should, and he’s become the scorn of movie bloggers everywhere. He’s not exactly one to stay quiet about his work or criticisms of it, but the...

If you are a horror fan from the early-2000s, you’re probably familiar with the infamous Uwe Boll. The filmmaker rose to prominence in the decade as the go-to guy for low-budget horror adaptations, with films like “House of the Dead,” “Alone in the Dark,” and “BloodRayne.” However, after a string of bad reviews (more like vicious reviews), the director decided to steer into controversy with a string of films that were meant to shock, offend, and generally piss people off.

Continue reading ‘F— You All: The Uwe Boll Story’ Trailer: The Infamous Director Reflects On His Career Of Offending Audiences at The Playlist.

Before we roll into August, we have one last round of July home media releases to look forward to, even if this week is one of the lightest weeks I’ve seen all year, with only three horror titles making their way home on Tuesday. Scream Factory is giving Piranha II: The Spawning a Blu-ray release, Vinegar Syndrome has resurrected The House of the Dead on Blu-ray, and Warner Archive has given Village of the Damned (1960) an HD overhaul as well.

The House of the Dead

Four tales of intrigue and horror await anyone brave enough to enter the House Of The Dead... When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he's taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses: a scornful teacher whose students teach her a fatal lesson, an amateur filmmaker with a deadly muse,...

Video game movies have a bad reputation because, well, there are very few that we’d call “good.” At their best, at least so far, the big screen versions of video games have been fun and trashy entertainment. At their worst, however, they’re as bad as anything else we’ve ever seen in a movie theater.

So let’s rank ‘em!

41. “Postal” (2008)

The pinnacle of director Uwe Boll‘s string of horrendous video game movies (he has five that qualify for this list by getting theatrical releases somewhere), but to be fair it’s probably still a better work of art than the game it’s based on.

40. “Alone in the Dark” (2005)

“House of the Dead” briefly tricked us into thinking Uwe Boll was a camp master, but his next video game movie, “Alone in the Dark,” was such an incomprehensible slog that I have never been able to...

Uwe Boll, the filmmaker who has brought us a slew of films that a lot of people think are terrible such as BloodRayne, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Far Cry, House of the Dead, and more, is completely pissed off at Dwayne Johnson's big screen adaptation of the classic video game Rampage. He's so raging mad that he is threatening to sue Warner Bros.

So, why is Uwe Boll so pissed off? Because he also made a movie called Rampage. It has nothing to do with this movie, but the fact that it has the same title has made him go crazy!

Fuck this new fake Rampage movie. Uwe Boll is going to sue Warner Bros. asshole. Totally serious. Will update soon.

— Uwe Boll (@UweBollRaw) March 23, 2018

Ok. Press Release on front page of https://t.co/zGaQq3Kxa1 ''Uwe Boll goes on a Rampage against Warner Bros.

Matthew Byrd Jan 16, 2018

Zombie shooter sim House Of The Dead is returning to arcades, as Sega announces Scarlet Dawn...

There's nothing quite like a House Of The Dead arcade game. Try as they might, the many console ports of the franchise haven't been able to replicate the magic of a true House Of The Dead arcade experience.

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It seems that Sega might just agree with that sentiment as they've just announced that they are developing a brand-new House Of The Dead arcade game.

It's called House Of The Dead: Scarlet Dawn, and you can play it at Sega Akihabara Building 3 in Tokyo from January 19th to January 21st. Sega has not announced any plans to expand the availability of this game beyond that initial limited release.

We hope they find a way to...

Matthew Byrd Jan 12, 2018

The best way to experience one of the worst games ever? Watch an expert blitz through it in a matter of minutes...

The annual Awesome Games Done Quickly event gives speedrunners everywhere a chance to showcase how fast they can beat some of the best games ever made. However, one of the highlights of the event has long been the early hours of the morning the event's organizers devote to speedrunners who have mastered some of the worst games ever made. This block - affectionately known as awful games done quickly - proves that some truly bad games are way more entertaining when they're beaten really fast.

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The highlight of this year's awful games done quickly block...

It's finally that time of year! AMC is going wall to wall with scary movies as Fearfest 2017 kicks off today with a Halloween marathon! Check out the full schedule of what's in store below, and continue reading:

Monday, October 23, 2017

9:00 am Halloween

11:00 am Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

1:00 pm Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

3:00 pm Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers

5:00 pm Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later

7:00 pm Halloween II

9:30 pm Halloween

11:30 pm Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

1:30 am Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

3:30 am Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers

9:00 am House on Haunted Hill

11:00 am House of Wax

1:30 pm Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later

3:30 pm Halloween II

6:00 pm Child’s Play

8:00 pm Curse of Chucky

10:00 pm Cult of Chucky

Wednesday,...

Simon Brew May 9, 2017

From on-rails shooter House Of The Dead came the finest typing tutor videogame of all time...

When Sega first released The House Of The Dead into arcades in 1996, and subsequently onto the much-loved Dreamcast console a year or two later, there were few signs that it would give mutate and give Mavis Beacon a run for its money. The original game – and its sequels - was an on-rails light gun shooter. You pointed your pretend gun at the screen, you shot zombies, stress melted away almost as fast as the coins left your pocket. Until it got to the really hard bits and boss battles. Subsequent sequels would follow a similar pattern, until enthusiasm for zombie-blasting lightgun games seemed to peter out.

But before it petered out, it took one of the strangest left turns in videogaming history (I don’t say that lightly), as House Of The Dead...

Today we learned that one my favorite television actors, Dominic West, is joining the cast of the rebooted Tomb Raider franchise. You probably remember him best from The Wire, where he played Jimmy McNulty, the protagonist of the show and a character with many personal and intriguing demons. He stamped his mark on society with this character because The Wire is considered one of the best written shows of all time, and the last time I remember West was in the only decent Punisher movie ever made where he played the iconic Jigsaw.

According to THR, West will be playing Lord Richard Croft, the father of Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot. This role was originally played by Jon Voight in the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies a decade ago. We know Voight is Jolie's father in "real life," and while West can't claim that over the current...

Super Mario Bros. Street Fighter. Mortal Kombat Annihilation. House Of The Dead. Not only are these terrible videogame movies, there are some of the worst movies, period. And the list goes on! Double Dragon, Dead Or Alive, Alone In Dar – I mean, you get the idea. Hell, let’s add Assassin’S Creed and (presumably) Resident Evil: Final Chapter to that list as well. So why is that?... Read More...

Even after all of these decades I Still play Altered Beast and that’s why I’m elated that Variety is reporting that Stories International has partnered with Circle of Confusion to produce adaptations of Sega’s video games Altered Beast and Streets… Continue Reading →

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