WOMG they made a house of the dead 2!!

edited January 2007 in Movies and Shows
Seriously! I just watched it on the SciFi network. It was better than the first one, but it would have needed a Herculean effort to make a worse movie than the original house of the dead.

I missed the begining of the movie, but it seemed to be about a military team sent into a college campus to retrieve a sample of blood from zombie patient zero. Oh by the way, they alternated between calling them zombies and hypersapiens. It was ridiculously cliche and I don't think there was a single casualty that wasn't taken out by a zombie cheap shot coming from off screen. You think after the third or fourth time they'd learn to watch their backs.

Highlights include:

Two men walking around in a zombie infested library, they see a guy sitting in the dark, alone, looking at a book. Somehow they deduce it's a survivor and go to get him. "Careful man, it might be a zombie". "Zombies don't read!". It was a zombie.

"Oh man they got the Sarge! They got the Sarge man! They got 'im! If they can get Sarge they can get anybody! It's over!" This character was later tackled by a zombie that ate through all of his skin and what looked like a bullet proof vest to rip out his heart in about 5 seconds.

Electrifying zombies to death!

Two characters locked in a sealed room. The door just kinda randomly opened and they never said why.

Out of ammo, the last two survivors are armed with a combat knife and a fire axe up against a group of zombies. The fight scene was helarious. Best part was one of them hid under a table and swiped at zombie feet with her knife. I guess zombies can't duck, reach under furniture, or turn over a table.

Trapped in a room, one guy guts a dead zombie and smears blood all over him. Somehow, this tricks the other zombies into thinking he's one of them and they let him walk around unmolested.

And finally, two unarmed characters literally walk right through a huge group of zombies without getting bitten. Zombie incompetence in this movie was at an all-time high.

Comments

  • jcjc
    edited January 2007
    Man, this thread is SEVERELY not about what I thought it would be.

    But now it is.

    SUFFER LIKE G DID?
  • edited January 2007
    THERE WAS NOTHING WE COULD DO.

    Also, there's nothing in your silly sequel that could possibly beat the part in the first movie where the zombie jumps into the air with an axe, then lets go of the axe while rotating forward and the axe slowly moves forward while also rotating. This part was a few seconds before the girl jumps up and shoots him with a shotgun, but is way more awesome than the shotgun part. Also the zombie projectile vomit part was good.
  • edited January 2007
    Sadly, no, though the zombies don't read part was pretty good. The first movie may have been comiclly bad, this one was just bad.

    That does remind me of one really confounding part though. The team's trapped in a room with zombies at the door and a single grate into a ventillation duct. For whatever reason, they can't open the grate from that side, so the guy smears himself with blood to blend in and walk to the other end of the duct. There, he opens that grate and yells for the other two to climb through. Somehow, the other grate is now open and they climb inside as zombies break the door.

    The only thing I can possibly think of, is that they meant they could open grates from the outside, but not from the inside, even though one of them had a shotgun. I prefer to believe that is was just a horrible movie with the worst script in the world.
  • edited January 2007
    I liked how the first 2 casualties on their team were completely unnecessary and totally avoidable. The guy intentionally attacked the zombie with bare-hands. After the zombie is down, he doesn't grab his weapon and finish it, he waits for it to regain its composure and sticks his hand in its mouth. Then none of these experienced special forces realize that he's infected.
  • edited January 2007
    Sci-fi original movies are the best thing ever in the history of everything.
  • edited January 2007
    Yeah, House of The Dead 2 wasn't expecially wonderful. Has anyone ever noticed that everyone in Sci-Fi original movies are really snarky, and the dialogue is kinda back'n'forth douche baggery?