Over the years, Uwe Boll has participated in a bunch of our critics polls. He’s a reader of this site, so let’s all be nice to him—or, at least, pretend to be.
In case you didn’t hear, Sega is rebooting “House of the Dead” without Boll’s participation, instead directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Isabela Merced, and he’s absolutely pissed about it—so he’s decided to fundraise an “unofficial sequel” called “23 YEARS LATER: Return to Zombie Island.” Boll also calls Paul W.S. Anderson “the very bad director … not the good one.”
Boll describes “23 Years Later: Return to Zombie Island” as “a real horror sequel, made the old-school way — practical effects, real blood, real locations.” He also apparently only needs to attain $20,000 to make it.
Boll is best known for his notoriously ill-received video game adaptations of the 2000s, all of which were critical and commercial disasters. He retired from filmmaking in 2016 to become a restaurateur but has since returned. His films “House of the Dead” and “Alone in the Dark” both proudly sit on IMDb’s “Bottom 100” list. At one point, he referred to Ain’t It Cool’s Harry Knowles, one of his most vocal detractors, as a “retard.”
A few years ago, Boll proclaimed himself to be “the only genius in the whole fucking [movie] business” and declared that directors like Michael Bay and Eli Roth are “fucking retards.” And really, how could he not have that kind of confidence? Especially after releasing 2011’s “Auschwitz,” which he called his “masterpiece.” It was the most serious and sober film of his career—a peculiar, 73-minute Holocaust movie that only a filmmaker like Boll could make.
When Wired magazine published a negative review of “Postal”, Boll responded with an infamous email:
You don’t understand anything about movies and you are an untalented wannabe filmmaker with no balls and no understanding what POSTAL is. You don't see courage because you are nothing. and no go to your mom and fuck her ...because she cooks for you now since 30 years ..so she deserves it.
This all led to Boll “challenging” his critics to “put up or shut up.” In June 2006, he challenged his five harshest critics each to a 10-round boxing match. One of them was Jeff Sneider. Boll won all five bouts.
In October 2016, Boll claimed that “Rampage: President Down” was his last film. Yet here we are, nearly 10 years later, and he’s made three films since then, including the upcoming “Citizen Vigilante,” starring Armie Hammer. However, he now desperately needs to counterattack Sony’s “House of the Dead” sequel—and needs your help to make it happen.