Not only do we have reunited once-lovers, but they are faced with a global threat that taxes their rekindling love to a point that is all too honest, all too true a metaphor in this day and age where the speed of life leaves little room for the more important things. These actors perfectly grasp the subtleties of the complex character dynamics that exist. Rather than using merely one famous B-Horror famous name, we have a cast of proven talent: Christian Slater, Tara Reid and the omni-present Stephen Dorff, just to name a few. Watch Alone in the Dark, however, made two years later and you can see the leaps and bounds made by a director into this realm of the chilling Horror Thriller Genre. Let me be the first to say House of the Dead was perhaps not the best work (financially successful though it was) that was made by a director with little experience and few contacts. Granted, such a film with actual clips from the poor-graphic shooter vid were clunky, and a plotline about kids going to a rave on a zombie-infested island may be a little too basic, so basic in fact that one can, without much derision, carry forward an opinion of a man's work to the next production (and the next and the next). Not many critics have given Uwe Boll a real chance since seeing his mediocre work displayed in his first video-game based film production, House of the Dead (2003).
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