Showing posts with label island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label island. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

House of the Dead

Bro, check it out - Seriously huge rave on Zombie Island tonight! Seriously! A bunch of us are going over there. Why do they call it "Zombie Island?" Dunno. Think we should ask? Directed by the cult classic, Uwe Boll.

There's a big rave on an island off Seattle. Captain Kirk calls it "La Isla De Muerte"...lol, wasn't that used in Lost World? The movie features a lot of zombie ass-kicking in true video game style. When some of the characters die, their screen even goes red just like in the game. At first, there's an entire mob of people presumably killed at the rave. Then the movie picks up following a small batch of survivors (Rudy, Liberty, Hugh) along with a group of late-comers (Greg, Simon, Alicia, Cynthia, Karma). Plus there's a captain, skipper and a zombie-hunting police officer and we have ourselves a cast. Let the games begin!

Ding, Ding, Round 1!

Ravers Matt & Johanna (plus dozens of others) die in the opening 20 minutes. Matt and Johanna wander off to the lake to go skinny dipping. As Matt bashfully decides not to get naked, a zombie offs him off-screen. Johanna turns around and goes looking for Matt and ultimately gets killed too off-screen. We then see another anonymous couple having sex in the woods right before getting attacked and killed off-screen.

Skipper Salish is wandering around alone in the woods when he gets attacked and killed off-screen.

Off-screen zombie killings: 5++


Ding, Ding, Round 2!

The late comers have arrived to the island via boat, only to find the rave has been ravished. But that doesn't stop Greg and his girlfriend Cynthia from initiating sex. While Greg runs off to pee first, Cynthia is swarmed by zombies and bitten.

The other late comers bump into the last survivors of the rave and then find Greg trapped in the porta-john. When out of nowhere, Zombie Cynthia springs from the woods, and snaps Hugh's neck before being shot by Casper. We hardly knew anything about Hugh except that he had a video camera.

Round 3. The survivors flee to the coast to escape, but find that Captain Kirk's boat is already overtaken by zombies. Kirk, himself, is safe on land when everyone is attacked. Kirk gets bitten and Simon gets burned in the cheek by zombie spit. Later, Casper decides to go elsewhere for help and she takes Greg along with her. Greg doesn't survive the journey.

Round 4. The zombie battle of all zombie battles. This round is just relentless with shotguns, karate kicks and plenty of Matrix slo-mos. During the attack, Liberty, the red, white and blue little Asian chick, succumbs to zombie bites. And Casper gets her legs ripped off as they finally enter an actual house in this movie. Hopefully it's the house of dead.

Round 5. They've made it into the house. Captain Kirk takes a 2nd bite and decides to sacrifice himself with a stick of dynamite. The remaining four survivors wander through the labyrinth where they are attacked by pirates, oh wait, I mean zombies. Simon decides to be a hero and sacrifice himself so the others may escape.

The final three escape down more dark hallways when more zombies try to eat...or bite them. The writers decide that yet another character should sacrifice themselves so Karma screams for the others to GO as her futile attempts at fighting get her killed.

Final round. Rudy and Alicia (ex-lovers) have escape the house that they escaped into earlier. Then I think there's a sword fight (?) between Alicia and a zombie and the zombie impales Alicia right through the center of her chest. She should be dead at this point, but test audiences must have wanted a female to survive the movie so in the voice over we here a vague remark that she might not be dead.

Rudy is basically the sole survivor. He actually tells us this at the beginning of the film, that everyone but him died.

In a Survivor movie it's a big no-no to reveal who survives at the beginning, regardless of how predictable it is otherwise. So for that I give House of Dead just 2 torches.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Eliminator

Seven people. One Island. Hunted Alive. One Winner.

*orgasms*

Synopsis: Ex-Navy SEAL, Dakota Varley risks his life when he is chosen to be a "contestant" in a 10 million dollar winner-take-all hunt to the death. To win this ultimate game of survival, you just have to be the last man remaining alive. Fighting for his life in a jungle as dangerous as the hunters he faces, Varley must call upon all the training he has ever known, but still, nothing has ever prepared him for this. In this game of survival, you can't get voted off the island, you can only die there...

*Spoiler Alert* the most dangerous thing found in this "jungle" might be poison ivy.

The Eliminator is not a good movie. It's so bad that it's a GREAT movie! I was entertained through every minute. The hilariously bad acting from Paul Logan is B-Movie gold. It's topped off by the so over-the-top acting from G. Anthony Joseph (he's not one of the contestants). Most of the "actors" in this movie are stunt doubles and they even include a UFC fighter. Fans of horribly great B-movies will love The Eliminator.

The Eliminator came out three years before The Condemned. The only difference between both movies is this features contestants being hunted, whereas in The Condemned they must kill each other. The Condemned was probably better just due to the fact that The Eliminator was straight to DVD. Everything else feels pretty much the same right down to the music played on the DVD menu.

The game of survival features 7 people captured against their will to be hunted alive on an "island" (The "island" is only an island from the CGI aerial shots). Each hunter is only given two bullets. Each contestant's survival is being gambled on by a group of big-shot millionaires. Chances are the winning contestant will not get a dime as we learn in the opening scene that the diabolical man running this, Miles Dawson (Michael Rooker), does not like to pay up. The stakes are high for the rich gamblers because once their contestant is eliminated, they lose their bets. While there's a lot of neck-snapping action down on the island, the gamblers get busy snapping at each other with insults and conspiracy theories.

Contestants:

Jesse Jenkins (Paul Logan). He's a Kendo Expert and a DEA from Central America. He got sold out on the job and captured to compete.




Santha Torres (Danielle Burgio). She's a freedom fighter who trains men and women to kill. She's also a rebel insurgent and an expert at Guerrilla warfare. Not to mention she claims she killed 14 men before they could capture her. (wow, this is hilarious!)


Tonya Coyne (Vicki Phillips). A special forces drill instructor. She's an expert at hand-to-hand combat and explosives. It's Bazooka Barbie!




Seth Kwong (Phi-Long Nguyen). He's an undercover police officer and Wu Shu specialist. He was my pick for winner.




Darius Blake (Jamal Duff). He's a convict taken from a prison in Kosova. They couldn't find any other black guy I guess.




Salvador Montoya (Marco Ruas). He's a Medy Yeins drug cartel (a what?) and interrogator.




Dakota Varley (Bas Rutten). A desert storm Huey pilot according to his bio. An Ex-Navy SEAL according to the plot synopsis. So he's just simply amazing. He enjoys kickboxing, cage fighting and long walks on the beach.




Movie Clip:



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This photo was taken from the Making-Of DVD Featurette. I think it explains everything...