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House of the Dead (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• The movie is set before the events of the first House of the Dead video game.
  
  
• Thirty-two video clips from the original game appear in several parts of the movie. Twenty-six appear during the 10-minute battle in front of the house. The remaining 6 are used as transitions prior to the battle.
  
  
• The fisherman with the hook (gaff) at the beginning of the movie is a reference to the killer in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).
  
  
• At the beginning of the movie, Greg says, "Who's the U-boat captain?" when he sees Capt. Viktor Kirk (Jürgen Prochnow). Prochnow was the captain in Das Boot (1981)
  
  
• The Sega logo is in the background during the rave. Sega produced the "House of the Dead" video game.
  
  
• Jonathan Cherry burned 30% of his hand on the second day of shooting. The scene on the bridge, where he hurts his hand, was shot later, to explain the bandage he had to wear.
  
  
• Reviews were so bad that Danish cinemas refused to buy it.
  
  
• House of the Dead is the last film to use the turn-table technique for 360° shots. The risk of actors being hurt or killed by the fast-moving camera was too much.
  
  

• SPOILER: At the end, the survivors are rescued by a helicopter. Two men in trench coats get of the helicopter as it lands. This is a reference to the original House of the Dead video game, in which the protagonists are two special agents in trench coats.
  
  

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