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Possibly the worst movie I've ever seen.


*few spoilers*

Yeah - I went to a blockbuster last sunday, and saw this film in the shelf. Well, the cover art was pretty cool and the back side of the box promised a bloody zombie shootout. Also, it was a sequel to supposedly one of the worst movies ever made, so the premise sounded like a fun sunday night time killer.

Well - turned out I was wrong. I wasn't exactly looking forward to some art movie spectacle, but this one was just horrible.

First off, there was hardly any shooting in the movie and very little - if any - gore either. When the very idea of the movie is to be a gory zombie shootout but there's hardly any gore or shooting involved, I can't but shake my head.

Most scenes were incredibly stupid, like where they go to take a sample from the zero specimen and the college kids can't hear the horde of zombies creeping behind them? What about the supposed special forces, who are armed to the teeth that can't take out few walking corpses? Or the fact that the other people in the squad are infected when a zombie takes a glance at them, but the the two main characters survive despite being buried under a horde of them and hit with a freakin Tomahawk missile? Oh man - retarded retarded retarded.

The plot - well, there really was not a solid one to speak of, but then again, I was not even expecting one.

The dialogue was incredibly cheesy, although I would not have minded about that either, If the movie was a brainless zombie shootout I was expecting it to be.

The characters - laughable. A bad-ass rapper leading some special combat unit, a stupid yellowbelly, two strong female characters and a "good guy" with bad intentions plus some tough and clever pretty boy. That's original.

I can't believe that this was actually trying to be a half-serious movie. I hope I never even hear of this again.

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You should watch the first HotD and u will immediately change your opinion.This will be one of your worst movies,but definately not THE WORST.
Compared to the 1st,this is oscar-worthy material.

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Lol. I totally agree. When me and my brother saw this we just started to laugh.
How the hell could someone make a movie like this and then realise it?!
Some of the zombies was just white in the face even.
And they way all the characters just died in one moment, and the hole story, and etc....

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The first one actually isnt the worst movie ever either.
There is a movie called Camp Slaughter that will blow you away. Fantastically funny.

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couldn't have said it better

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How about the whole plot device of "sterilizing" the outbreak scene with a missile being a blatant rip-off of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse", not to mention, how is this missile supposed to destroy all the zombies that have been shambling around an entire college campus and the surrounding area when it barely destroys one building? Or the plot point that this mission occurs "29 days" after the outbreak? Another blatant rip-off. If this movie had made any money at all, Danny Boyle would've sued their arses.

Vae Victis

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So? You can't sue for stuff like that. The nuke thing has been in various zombie lore or situations before RE used it. Also check out more independent horror. They always mimic what is popular. Night of the Dead, the title rips of the obvious but it is almost identical in story to Reanimator but not as interesting at all and terrible acting. Snakes on a Train, what does that sound like? There are alot of them that do that sort of thing.

I am not saying that you are wrong, what you mention is what they stole from though. No denying that. Its just not uncommon at all.

Plus this one was awesome compared to the original.

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Can't be worst than Hostel or the Grudge 2...

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This movie is really bad, but a million times better than House of the Dead 1

tHe MuRdER CaPiTaL oF thE woRLd

"walk into this world with you head up high"

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What about the part near the end when Nightingale & Ellis are trying to make their way to the van? They are completely engulfed by zombies, yet neither one of them gets bitten!!!!

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I think you all missed the point of these movies, TO ENTERTAIN, yea the acting is bad, the special effects low budget, the story pretty sad, but the question is, did you watch it? yes! Did you laugh? Most likely. Did you enjoy it even if only to laugh at how bad it was? Yes deep down I bet you loved it.
See then the movies were good.

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People like IceWulf shouldn't be allowed to comment on horror movies. Hostel was brutal, exploitative and great. Yeah... the trailer for the first HoTD movie actually made it look kind of cool, but when I saw the retarted shots directly from a video game inserted into the fight scenes, I realized that the director needs his testicles nailed to a board, and then eaten off by rabid weasels.

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Oh believe us - it is "worst" than Hostel & Grudge 2

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I so agree, this movie is beyond awful.
You can see some of the worst acting EVER in just
a few first minutes of the film, as well as
the worst boob job ever.

STUPID MOVIE. WASTE OF MY TIME. And I'm a huge zombie flicks fan, btw.

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Lets be fair, the movie may not be one of the best but is by no means one of the worst. At least in this one we did not have to endure ill fitted scenes from the game through out.
I think we need to remember that this is a cheesy horror movie and is in no way ever likely to be reality so surely we can forgive the lack of realism. I was actually quite entertained and for me that is what a film should do so I think it served it's purpose.

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Terrible movie. The soldiers were some of the most stupid i've ever seen and the dialogues... wel... never mind. Not worth mentioning.

however, The two most stupid things were :

1. the missile. It barely distroys the house, and then you here Allis say to Bart "there are more missiles to come" (or something like that). In my opinion, when you want to annihilate something, you don't send one missile en than a second a half hour later. You send them together.

2.They take a sample of blood and they lose it. They go back and they take another one which gets broken. Why the hell did they take but one sample? Why not several, in cause one got broken or lost as was the case? Stupid morrons.

Also when they go back the second time, they walk around like they are doing groceries . Isn't the missile gonna strike in a few minutes?

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They both sucked!!

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Make sure you see HOUSE 1 for an even worse zombie movie. And for the worst horror film ever made, check out AX EM.

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