Then the adults 'come in and clean up the mess,' making for a serious horror flick.

Apparently this is all part of their subtle plan, for the idea is to have the audience think they're getting a strange remake of Night of the Creeps with more breasts, then have the zombies show up and crash the party. They showed the trailer for the film, which painted it as an odd cross between the Dawn of the Dead remake, Aliens, and, oddly, Porky's. This statement was greeted by applause from the audience, which filled the room to perhaps one third capacity. 'Uwe Boll has nothing to do with this film,' he assured the room. Altman pointed out that Hurst was a flesh and blood human and not, as some people had feared, Boll under a pseudonym. Universally panned by critics and pretty much ignored by everyone else, the first film wasn't able to recoup its modest production and marketing costs in its theatrical run. Altman (who, along with actress Cornell is the only one of two survivors to make it to the second film) stated that the intent of the panel was to get the crowd excited to see House of the Dead 2, adding 'as hard as that will be.' There's good reason to want to find plenty of space between this film and the Uwe Boll-directed original House.

The House of the Dead 2 Comic-Con panel, starring writer/producer Mark Altman and director Mike Hurst, and also actors Ed Quinn ( Starship Troopers 2), Emanuelle Vaugier ( Wishmaster 3), Ellie Cornell, and Cam Powell, plus director of photography Raymond Stella ( Escape from New York), kicked off things by trying to distance this film from its predecessor. In 2003, it made the transition to the big screen, joining other such sterling videogame adaptations as Super Mario Bros., Resident Evil, and Mortal Kombat: Annhiliation. House of the Dead started life as an arcade game, giving people an opportunity to blow the brains out of zombies, a pastime as American as apple pie.

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