Another hilarious interview with Dr. Boll over at Bloody-Disgusting:

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/features.php?id=57

Another fun tidbit from Dr. Boll on Alone in the Dark:

"This movie isn’t shit and whoever says it’s shit doesn’t like horror movies."

http://www.creature-corner.com/?type=news&id=349

This guy is so stupid his interviews make for a good laugh. He has no idea the level of crap he's churning out!

$2.5 million and #14 on opening weekend (shown on 2,124 screens):
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/...einthedark.htm

IMDB was 2.0/10 (393 votes). This movie may make the bottom 100!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369226/

I seriously want to know how Dr. Uwe Boll keeps getting hired. Like not because I think he's a hack but the entire universe thinks he's a hack.

Dr Uwe Boll? What does he hold a Doctorate in again?

Well, I *LOVED* house of the dead. If Alone is just as good as House was, I'll have to see it right away.

* Minor disclaimer - I make no attempts to pass off HotD as a GOOD film - just that it was so astoundingly, amazingly bad, that it had a MST3K quality about it.

The funny thing he has the nerve to comment on other movies so freely like his films are gold or the standard. He said he "didnt mind" Resident Evil: Apocalypse but thought the 1st was better. Man, RE2 was 100 times better than any of his films and thats not saying much cuz i didnt think RE2 was all that anyway!

He's not really hired. What he has is some crazy German financiers who feed into his company, the Boll KG or something (I forget the name). This group buys the licenses and makes the movie. At least that's the case for Alone and Bloodrayne. He might've been hired for House. Nonetheless, each of his films are independant films, which truth be told probably have made all their money back before they're even released. Not big profit, but enough to warrant them being made.

But after the pure disaster that was Alone in the Dark's opening weekend, I'm not sure any distributor will put up the funds to release his next one. At least not theatrically. Who knows though, they might think it has enough starpower to dump into theatres regardless.

I saw this tonight... Honestly, I don't see what the big deal is. It's not as bad as people are saying - I can only attribute this to the notion that most people haven't even seen it. It's not good - that's for sure, but it's no worse than Daredevil, X-Men 2, Resident Evil 2, or Hell Boy... all of which I didn't like much either. And I can think of several films that were heaps worse than this.

I only have this film to go by, but Uwe Boll isn't completely untalented. He exhibits some skills in cinematography and pacing, but lacks a way to bring his skills towards a cohesive vision. Actually, the three biggest problems with this films are the source material, the script and Tara Reid. Uwe Boll did an average job on this considering what he had to work with and I don't find him worth mentioning in the same breath with Ed Wood as if he's got a corner on the market of contemporary schlock. Boll is simply average.

I give this film a 4.5/10. They loosely based the film on the most recent Alone in the Dark game which was a bit of a departure from the series. As a game, it was pretty decent, but as a movie it's just stupid. As many people have said, it's not bad in a fun way - it's just lousy.

There's a bit of humor here though - Tara Reid. She's the worst, most horrible actress ever. All of her dialogue was simple three word sentences usually starting with "it's..." or "what's..." to help explain things to the audience. What's more, her lines were delivered as poorly as reported - as if she was reading off a cue card. Also, there wasn't really any point to her character at all. She offered nothing to advance the plot or develop other characters and yet she would just tag along the whole time. Also, a fun thing to do is watch her bandage... halfway through the film she is injured on her arm and throughout the rest of the film her magic bandage moves around and/or disappears. Sloppy filmmaking perhaps, but it could also be that she was doing lines before her scene and forgot to put the bandage back on before stumbling back onto the set.

I can't say I'd recommend anyone go see this, but it's not as bad as all that. Sure, there's alot to nitpick here, but there's not enough awfulness here I don't think to earn Boll notoriety as "worst" anything. I mean, if this is someone's idea of the "worst film ever" or whatever, then they need to see more movies. It's far from the worst.

You really should watch House of the Dead. And, your review makes me sad. I really am hoping this movie is as awfully idiotic (and henceforth ridiculously funny) as HoTD was. Seriously, watch House of the Dead. It's awful. It's embarassing. And, well, it's pretty damn funny too. Plus it's got gore and boobies.

nonetheless, I'm not sure I'd say Uwe is the worst filmmaker ever. But based on HoTD, which is the only film I've seen of his, he's defiantely the worst of all the filmmakers putting films into actual theaters.

On the other hand, reading your opinions, I'm getting the sense we wouldn't find too much common ground when it comes to genre fare anyway. No offense intended, your opinion is certainly valid and your own, but I wouldn't put XMen 2 in anywhere near the same category as Daredevil and RE2 which, I agree, were bad. But XMen 2 I thought was excellent, and hellboy was...well, it was ok.

Yeah - I'm curious to see HotD, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Hope it comes on cable soon, cuz I don't wanna rent or buy it.

I disagree that he's the worst filmmaker putting films in theaters. Whoever directed Bourne Supremacy sucks much worse IMO for example. I'm fully aware my opinions aren't shared by many - especially around here - but most people here have only seen one film of his and that's hardly enough to label him the worst at anything. If it was, then I'd say the same about the director of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... but that would be a mistake because he also directed Blade and Death Machine (I admit it wasn't good, but I liked it) and even worked on Hardware (which I also admit I liked).

Anyway, perhaps Uwe has yet to hit his stride with these video game films. Or maybe he just sucks. He's certainly not good. He'd be good as an assistant director or a second unit I think. I found a few things in Alone in the Dark that I liked. Some of the effects were really good... the CG work was awful, but the practical effects turned out great. I also thought he had a good eye for composing some of his shots. And for what it's worth, I thought his matrix-style stuff was kinda cool. I mean, this is about what one would expect from a B-grade sci-fi movie. People are trying to hold him up against Cameron or Scott or Spielberg or something.

Yeah, I'd say our tastes are pretty divergent. I quite enjoyed Supremacy, so I can't really agree with that assessment.

But, well, I think Boll is the worst myself. I can't think of anyone releasing films theatrically that are of such bargain basement stupidity. Seriously, even bad films like Catwoman or Batman and Robin I can see better things in than HoTD. Of course, I find those films utterly boring, and not nearly bad enough to make me laugh. HoTD succeeds in that. So, while I think Boll made the absolute worst theatrically released film I've ever laid my eyes on, I also find it more entertaining than most bad movies. If that makes sense to ya.

I guess that's why I've kidna softened to the idea of him making more films. I actually look forward to indulging in some substance abuse and popping Alone in to my DVD player. And then Bloodrayne.

But, I've seen films that are just as bad as Boll's, but they're all of the straight to video variety. Cyborg Cop comes to mind.

Man, the Bloodrayne trailer is up and it looks so horrid I actually felt bad for all the actors, it looks like it has a lower budget than an Angel episode. http://www.chud.com/ has the trailer up.

I believe that "Angel" song someone mentioned was played during the credits. Sounded like some overproduced Eurodrivel to me, a the time I just figured it was from a DJ that was like brothers with the director or something

Couldn't they afford to put makeup on Bloodrayne? Looks like a movie to pass up... can't say I get the whole "worst movie ever" vibe that everyone else seems to get.

Just heard a classic bit on the radio. The DJ said "Tara Reid, that great thespian, has a new movie out. It's called 'Alone in the Dark.' It's the story of someone sitting in a movie theater watching a Tara Reid movie."

Well, the wife and I were visiting friends up in Atlanta this weekend. We got caught in the icestorm and everything. Anyway, Saturday night we wanted to go see a movie, any movie. After driving around for about an hour, past closed Regal and AMC theaters, we found a little independent operation complete with well-stocked arcade. The only movie that was about to start was "Alone in the Dark". An hour and a half later, feeling a bit dazed from the celluloid turd that had just bludgeoned our sensibilities, we saved the evening by playing a few rounds of DDR-Extreme in the arcade.

High points - Christian Slater. He's even watchable in dreck like this.
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Low points - everything else. I had problems with the communications tech "Crash" wearing her uniform cap backwards. "Commander, all circuits are jammed, yo!" Tara Reid was, well, Tara Reid. Dorff phoned in his performance. The 713 troopers with the t-shirts and bicycle helmets were tedious at best. It was bad, but IMHO not bad enough to be funny.

Uwe, please consider retraining to be a StaplerFahrer.

Went to see this last night, intentionally... Like most others, was hoping for HoTD-style entertainment. Nope, this was bad enough to be completely boring, but not bad enough to be fun. Not much to laugh at, just dull. I want my $6 back, so I can go see a successfully bad movie!

Holy crap! Seriously? At that point, isn't it someone else's job to correct her?!?! Doesn't a director or someone say "Excuse me Tara... it's pronounced..." I blame the director just as much. Maybe because he's German he doesn't realize she's saying it wrong? I can't believe they let that through to the final version.

Regarding Boll's upcoming movies - anyone else notice that they're mostly all based on video games? From HotD to AitD and now Far Cry and Bloodrayne - these are all video games for crying out loud. I think Hunter may be too. That should tell everyone something right there. It doesn't get much lower than movies adapted from VGs, as we're all learning.

Far Cry (2006) (announced)
Hunter: The Reckoning (2006) (pre-production)
Bloodrayne (2005) (post-production)
Alone in the Dark (2005)
House of the Dead (2003)Heart of America (2003)
Blackwoods (2002)
Sanctimony (2000)
Erste Semester, Das (1997)
Barschel - Mord in Genf? (1993)
Amoklauf (1992)
German Fried Movie (1991)

Yup Hunter: The Reckoning is a video game as well.

Here's the music video from Nightwish (w/o the "Alone" footage).

Wish I Had an Angel (Quicktime)

Ha, the problem with these films is not that they're based on video games. He could be basing his stuff on the latest Tom Stoppard screenplay and I'm sure it'd still be a trainwreck. He's just bad. His films make Tomb Raider look intelligent.

Wow! This movie made IMDB's bottom 100 already (#10).
http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom