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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Ethan Shattock and Gerard Rooney from Disconnected Talk, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead.

In this adaptation of the beloved arcade shooter game, a rave on a remote island goes horribly wrong. A small group of friends arrive late to the party of a lifetime, only to find it has become a literal dead zone.

At time of recording, it was ranked 8th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded and released especially for Halloween.
• Recorded 17th August 2019.
• House of the Dead at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Listen to Ger and Ethan on their Disconnected Talk podcast.
• John Schwartz at The New York Times profiles Uwe Boll during the production of Postal, May 2008.
• Darryn King at Vanity Fair profiles Uwe Boll during the production of Rampage: President Down, March 2017.
• Phil Hoad at The Guardian traces Uwe Boll’s career, February 2007.
• Kate Connolly at The Guardian reports on the reaction to Uwe Boll’s Auschwitz, November 2010.
• Uwe Boll talks to Wired, August 2007.
• Uwe Boll talks to Vancouver Magazine about opening a pizza restaurant in the city, May 2015.
• Uwe Boll responds to Wired‘s review of Postal, August 2007.
• Uwe Boll talks to Sean O’Neal at The A.V. Club, September 2007.
• How Did This Get Made? discuss Gamer, October 2016.
• Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku mounts a defense of Uwe Boll, December 2008.
• Colin Campbell at Polygon looks at the history of moral panic around video games, March 2018.
• Henry Jenkins writes on HenryJenkins.com about his involvement with video game culture, April 2017.
• Paul Tassi at Forbes on the difficulty adapting video games to other media, February 2018.
• Chris Baker at Wired reports on the infamous “Raging Boll”, December 2006.
• Jess Sneider at The Wrap reports on the inevitable Raging Boll documentary, September 2010.
• Iain Gray at The Telegraph reports on the petition to stop Uwe Boll from making any more movies, April 2008.
• Liz Lanier at Variety takes a look at F%!k You All: The Uwe Boll Story, September 2018.
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