As Greg and Cynthia are about to make out in a tent, the former leaves to urinate. Alicia, Karma and Simon leave the site to go find anybody around while Cynthia and Greg stay behind. A boat captain named Victor Kirk ( Jürgen Prochnow) and his first mate Salish ( Clint Howard) offer them a ride on their boat.Īrriving at Isla del Morte, they find the rave site messed up and deserted. When the five arrive at the dock, they find that they are late and the boat that is supposed to take them to Isla del Morte has already left. A sequel was released to home media in 2006, with only Cornell returning.Īfter booking a boat trip to attend a rave on an island located off the coast of Seattle named "Isla del Morte" ("Island of Death"), two college students, Simon ( Tyron Leitso) and Greg (Will Sanderson) meet up with three girls: Alicia ( Ona Grauer), Karma ( Enuka Okuma) and Greg's girlfriend Cynthia ( Sonya Salomaa).
The film performed better commercially, grossing $13.8 million on a $12 million budget. Upon release, House of the Dead was universally panned by critics, giving Boll a negative reputation that would continue throughout his career. House of the Dead was Boll's first film to be released theatrically, in addition to his first video game adaptation.
Based on the video game franchise of the same name, it is not an adaptation of the individual entries Boll described the film as a prequel to the original 1996 game. The film takes place on a fictional island infested by zombies, forcing survivors to fight their way off. It stars Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer, Ellie Cornell, and Jürgen Prochnow. House of the Dead is a 2003 action horror film directed by Uwe Boll from a screenplay by Mark A.