House of the Dead II

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Movie
German title House of the Dead II
Original title House of the Dead 2
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK No youth approval
Rod
Director Michael Hurst
script Mark A. Altman ,
Michael Roesch ,
Peter Scheerer
production Mark A. Altman,
Mark Gottwald
music Joe Kraemer
camera Raymond Stella
cut Joseph Gutowski
occupation

House of the Dead II is a 2005 American horror film directed by Michael Hurst . The video game adaptation is based on motifs from the successful Sega game series of the same name , which previously served as a template for House of the Dead (2003).

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The crazy Professor Curien researches the “secret of eternal life” at Cuesta Verde University and secretly experiments with corpses. With his illegal attempts, he wants to bring the dead back to life, unsure of his self-developed serum. One day, however, he was denied access to the morgue, so he simply murdered an attractive student. He injects his mysterious agent into this killed woman, whereupon the test person awakens to new life as a so-called “ hyper sapiens ”, a zombie . The trial victim shows cannibalistic traits and instinctively kills the professor, transforming him into a living dead. The nearby university campus is quickly contaminated with murderous invaders.

29 days later, a special unit of the government, consisting of soldiers and scientists, is searching for the origin of the infectious plague in order to develop an antiserum from blood samples obtained from first-time infected people that could save all of humanity. At the same time one looks for possible survivors. Lieutenant Jake Ellis and scientist Dr. Alex Morgan, nicknamed " Nightingale ", are given the delicate mission that will lead them to the devastated university campus. There the two, supported by an armed team, are supposed to rescue a first-generation infected person in a very lossy operation within a very short time. Otherwise, the government plans to bomb the entire area for general security.

In a race against time, the government units realize that almost the entire university campus, which is connected by underground tunnels, is in the hands of the zombies. To make matters worse, the organizations involved in the mission, the health authority AMS and a military unit, are not well-disposed to each other and pursue conflicting goals. While the AMS needs a sample of the hyper sapiens for the scientific evaluation, the shady soldiers work on their own account for a profitable pharmaceutical company. The number of fighters decreases rapidly with increasing duration of the enterprise. Nevertheless, Nightingale and Ellis manage to advance to a building that houses the biochemical laboratory of the teaching institute. There they meet two survivors, who inform them of the latest events before they are killed by onrushing beings. Nightingale and Ellis manage to fathom the origin of the zombie plague. Curien is the father of Rudy, who had to fight the undead in the first part of "House of the Dead". Through him Curien came across the "secret of eternal life". The AMS people manage to take a sample from a person who was infected for the first time, but they lose it in a renewed fight against the omnipresent undead.

Against the backdrop of an impending rocket fire, the three remaining members of the Nightingale strike force, Lt. Ellis and Lt. Henson back into the building and retrieve a new sample for the scheduled analysis. In this mission, Lt. Henson bitten and thus infected. The sample is later destroyed when Lt. Ellis has to give one of the greedy soldiers the sample and Nightingale shoots him. The film ends for the two survivors Dr. Alexandra Morgan and Jake Ellis as well as for all of humanity in a gloomy end-time scenario. The people of a neighboring city are overrun by the zombies. Attempts to stop them fail, so simply isolate the areas in hopes of finding an antidote soon.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film is a "sequel that concentrates entirely on the essence of the trivial genre" and that it spreads "fear and horror in a technically mature manner."

The Cinema wrote: "With good masks and a little self-irony, director Michael Hurst raises the undead junk above the level of its predecessor, staged by trash pope Uwe Boll in 2003."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ House of the Dead II. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Cinema.de: film review