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From botched storylines to terrible special effects, these horror game adaptations left fans screaming for all the wrong reasons! Join us as we count down our picks for the worst horror video game adaptations. Our countdown includes "Alone in the Dark," "Doom," "Five Nights at Freddy's," and more! Which adaptation disappointed you the most?
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the worst adaptations of horror video games.
00:17Given that the game features an intricate web of alternate paths based on your decisions
00:33and reaction time, any kind of adaptation of Until Dawn was bound to feel a bit watered
00:39down.
00:40And that's just what happened with this movie.
00:42Instead of trying to follow the game's plot, the movie instead puts a group of friends
00:46in a time loop of horrors.
00:48After each grisly death, they awaken to try and make it out.
00:54Both the cast of characters and the story are paper-thin compared to what players got
01:02to experience.
01:03It isn't offensively bad, but its gimmick gets old quickly.
01:08And since you're left with an adaptation almost in name alone, we have to wonder what
01:12the point of this was.
01:14When we die, like, for real, do you think we get a chance to do it all again?
01:22I'm not.
01:26Number 9.
01:27Five Nights at Freddy's Protecting these cuddly critters and the proprietary technology that
01:32brings them to life is now your sacred duty.
01:36The thing that made Five Nights at Freddy's fun to begin with was its chilling simplicity.
01:41Creepy animatronics hunting you from the shadows.
01:44And while we appreciate the production design of the 2023 adaptation, it loses sight of what
01:49makes the premise work.
01:59Weighed down by a bloated, overly complicated narrative, the movie was stuffed with unnecessary
02:03plot points that took away from what should have been the main stars, the animatronics themselves.
02:09This diluted form of the game's iconic baddies, spread thinly out over the runtime, does them
02:15a disservice.
02:16Instead of the tight focus that made the game so enjoyable, the movie went in directions not
02:20many cared to see.
02:22We'll touch on the infamous movie franchise later, but Netflix's series adaptation of
02:36Resident Evil also got a fair amount of deserved criticism.
02:40I'm not saying he was right, or even good, but he could have been worse.
02:47It may have sounded promising since it was to deal with the outbreak of Umbrella's virus
02:58and maybe be a bit more in line with the game lore.
03:01Even still, splitting the focus across two timelines caused neither to be fully fleshed
03:06out, nor that entertaining.
03:08Tonal inconsistencies with its writing also mounted up, combining for an ultimately uneven
03:13and disappointing eight episodes.
03:15I don't think you can kill them all, so we have to learn how to live with them, like
03:20we do AIDS or Ebola or anything else that's trying to wipe out the human race.
03:26Fans of the games were particularly unkind, and it became one of Netflix's lowest rated
03:31shows ever.
03:32Unsurprisingly, it was cancelled after its first season.
03:35He won't do anything to me.
03:38What's hurting me hurts Umbrella, and let's face it, Umbrella is all you have.
03:45Number 7 Dead Rising Endgame
03:48You gotta be kidding me.
03:52Number 7 Dead Rising Endgame
03:56Following the equally disappointing Watchtower, this direct-to-streaming sequel stripped away
04:01the signature humor and over-the-top gameplay Dead Rising is known for.
04:05Instead, you're treated to a generic thriller that seems to have zombies as an afterthought.
04:10Hooray.
04:11First time around I didn't have any gear either, but I survived.
04:17We need to remember the reason we're down here.
04:191.5 million lives, and we're running out of time.
04:23Shoved into the middle of the game series, the plot and its one-note characters do little
04:27to hold your interest.
04:28Nothing here holds the same humorous edge found in the game series, nor the chaos that comes
04:33from crafting wacky weapon combinations to mow down hordes of the undead.
04:38They manage to take something as violent and zany as Dead Rising and make it a boring,
04:43routine zombie movie with nowhere near the same level of heart, which is a sad accomplishment.
04:49I'll come back for you.
04:51If I beat the clock.
04:53You will.
04:56Number 6 Doom
04:58Look I got an idea, why don't you ask your CO what your orders are?
05:03To contain and neutralize the threat, protect the civilians and retrieve UAC property.
05:11We've finally done here because I've got a job to do.
05:15Here's where we start to get to the truly terrible.
05:18With a simple but very effective premise about a space marine battling demons from hell
05:23on Mars, the adaptation takes everything exciting about Doom and throws it out the window.
05:29Instead of demons, there are genetically enhanced humans.
05:32Instead of a lone warrior tearing through hordes, the movie is full of bland, forgettable characters
05:37despite being led by Carl Urban and Dwayne Johnson.
05:40I have lost four soldiers.
05:45What are you people experimenting with up here?
05:50It all comes off as very generic sci-fi when the source material is a trailblazer of video games.
05:56In fact, the best moment is a first person sequence filmed to look like the games.
06:02Everything else surrounding it will only bring fans disappointment.
06:05If you killed the kid, we're all killers, Reaper.
06:10It's what they pay us for.
06:14Number 5 Resident Evil The Final Chapter
06:18While there are a lot of them, you could argue there isn't a single good Resident Evil movie.
06:24And you wouldn't find many who would argue against you.
06:27But to avoid having the franchise take up half the list, we're going with the particularly
06:31sour note that Paul W.S. Anderson's run ended on with the final chapter.
06:36My satellites show there are 4,472 humans remaining on the surface of the Earth.
06:42They will cease to exist in under 48 hours.
06:46It is a dreadful slog across the finish line and a definitive example of style over substance.
06:53Not that the style is good to begin with.
06:55The over-reliance on CGI effects and chaotic editing choices leaves the action as muddled and messy as the plot.
07:03Although knowing you'll get nothing resembling the games in the final chapter, the movie even fails to be a satisfying conclusion to its own storyline.
07:11The antivirus is airborne, spread by the winds.
07:15It could take years for it to reach every corner of the Earth.
07:18Number 4 Silent Hill Revelation
07:22I don't think you should go.
07:23What?
07:24I think your dad's right. I don't think you should go to Silent Hill.
07:27I need to find him.
07:28You read his notebooks. He wants you to run.
07:30While the first live-action Silent Hill movie had some issues, when it comes to tone and visuals, it was a pretty entertaining horror flick.
07:38But there's no one out there defending the sequel.
07:41Unlike the first movie, it couldn't even get the tone of the source material right.
07:45Gone was any sense of psychological depth, replaced by a nonsensical plot that prioritized cheap jump scares with painfully bad 3D effects.
07:55You're the only part of a lesser that feels love.
07:59You balance her hate.
08:01But you should never have come back.
08:03It was truly hard to follow along.
08:06With too much messy lore and exposition dumps, the story felt like an afterthought that was overstuffed to compensate.
08:13It was genuinely painful for fans to sit through, watching iconic symbols like Pyramid Head paraded around with little to no thought given to purpose or context.
08:23And sacrifices have to be made.
08:27Go to hell!
08:28Can't you see?
08:31We're already here.
08:32Number 3
08:33Dead Trigger
08:35If you don't know the Dead Trigger game, it's a free-to-play mobile zombie shooter.
08:46And yeah, you wouldn't expect a mobile game to turn into a good movie, and obviously you'd be right.
08:52The simple premise of shooting zombies was stretched out to a truly dull hour and a half.
08:57It's almost impressive that it manages to be less entertaining than tapping on your phone screen for the same amount of time.
09:03There's enemies like no other this country has ever faced.
09:08Our friends, our neighbors, our families.
09:17These kids are the only chance this country has to survive.
09:21Characters are entirely forgettable, and the disorganized plot is stitched together by generic action scenes that hold no weight.
09:28Awkwardly paced, and with nowhere near the budget needed to back up any good effects,
09:33Dead Trigger seems more like a low-cost cash grab than a worthy cinematic venture.
09:38It could happen.
09:41If I can't do it, you'll do it for me.
09:44Promise me that.
09:48I promise.
09:48Number 2
09:50House of the Dead
09:51It was my fault!
09:53It was my fault!
09:56Were you here?
09:57Did you see it?
09:58Director Uwe Boll holds a lot of notoriety among players due to his horrid video game adaptations.
10:04In 2003, fans of Sega's light gun zombie shooter had to suffer as Boll took the House of the Dead IP
10:10and dragged it through the mud.
10:12Following an island rave ruined by a zombie outbreak, it quickly earned a bad reputation.
10:17It took the silly but satisfyingly violent mayhem of the arcade game and turned it into a mess of bizarre
10:23creative choices, cheesy dialogue and performances, and an unpleasant visual style made up of horrendous
10:29effects and makeup.
10:30It's one of the worst game adaptations in existence, let alone a horror one.
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11:011. Alone in the Dark
11:18Alone in the Dark
11:19Game deserves respect as a pioneer in the survival horror genre.
11:23But how that legacy has been treated over the years is downright heartbreaking.
11:27At the top of the terrible pile is this Uwe Boll adaptation from 2005 starring Christian
11:33Slater and Tara Reid. It is, without a doubt, the director's most egregious crime against video game fans.
11:46Nowhere is the game's atmospheric dread or intricate mystery.
11:51Instead, viewers are forced through a convoluted plot, laughably bad CGI monsters, and poor lighting.
11:58It's wall-to-wall terrible, panned for its low-budget look, wooden performances,
12:02and a strong desire to be anything unlike the source material.
12:07House of the Dead is awful, but this is Boll's magnum opus.
12:11The answers I've been looking for my whole life could be on the other side of this thing.
12:15Some doors are meant to stay shut.
12:17Which of these poor adaptations did you have to sit through?
12:20Share your thoughts in the comments, and we'll see you next time.
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