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REVIEW OF "HOUSE OF THE DEAD" IN VARIETY

Variety, the daily film industry trade paper, has reviewed "House of the dead" at the premiere at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival.
Read here some excerpts of the Variety-Review.

"Most videogame-derived movies have failed because attempts to graft conventional character/story onto purely sensory original material didn't take. But director Uwe Boll's German-financed, Vancouver-shot, English-language bigscreen version of popular Sega game "House of the Dead" really makes no attempt at character or story development. There's establishment of premise, introduction of cannon-fodder leads, then action, action, action -- making "House" as close to vidgaming as cinema has gotten. Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on just how much 14-year-old boy you've got in ya. More hectic than scary, but for sure not dull (and perhaps preferable in its frank cartoonishness to pretentious fantasy behemoths like "Daredevil"), this loud, dumb, bloody effort should have a long home-viewing shelf life among its youthful target demo. Theatrical runs are likely to be much briefer, with some territories requiring gore trimmed before pic can get an "R" equivalent."

Read the complete review by Dennis Harvey on www.variety.com !