House of the Dead is a 2003 action horror film directed by Uwe Boll, from a screenplay by Dave Parker and Mark Altman.

Based on The House of the Dead video game franchise, it stars Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer, Ellie Cornell, and Jürgen Prochnow.

Upon release, House of the Dead was universally panned by critics, giving Boll a negative reputation that would continue throughout his career.

Victor Kirk, a boat captain, and his first mate Salish agree to ferry them despite knowing the location when they are offered a huge sum of money to leave fast rather than be inspected.

He then created an immortality serum which he injected himself with, allowing him to live forever and return dead souls to life and support his cause.

Liberty and Casper are killed in the ensuing fight and Alicia, Rudy, Kirk, Karma and Simon manage to take shelter inside the house.

The man is revealed to be Castillo Sermano, who then orders a horde of zombies to restrain Alicia and Rudy in an attempt to kill them and use their flesh for his own purposes.

Elisabeth Rosen, who appeared in director Uwe Boll's previous film Heart of America, plays Skye.

Sega of America President Peter Moore and House of the Dead game producer Rikiya Nakagawa make uncredited cameos as zombies.

A feature film based on the video game The House of the Dead had first been in development in 1998 at DreamWorks Pictures, with Jesse Dylan directing and Mark Verheiden writing the screenplay.

Representatives from Sega shot alongside the production to secure images, motion capture, and gather other materials for The House of the Dead 4.

A music video for the song "This Is Real" by Swiss pop singer Rey Thomas was also released as part of the publicity campaign.

This parody-like part was contrasted in a parallel montage of numerous, extremely violent scenes featuring the original cast, which caused many broadcasters to refuse to play the clip in heavy rotation.

All tracks are written by Reinhard BesserHouse of the Dead was shown at the San Diego Independent Film Festival on February 15, 2003.

The site's consensus reads, "A grungy, disjointed, mostly brainless mess of a film, House of the Dead is nonetheless loaded with unintentional laughs.

[11] IGN gave it three out of five stars, citing it as "an unabashed B-movie that does an incredibly decent job with a limited budget, unknown cast, and routine storyline.