History YMMV / HouseOfTheDead

*** ''Especially'' [[TarotMotifs Justice]]. To elaborate, one of Justice's attacks involve grabbing you, and you have to shake the controller SMG ''fast'' in order to break free of his grasp or he will lick you ForMassiveDamage. The [[BlatantLies lovely]] [[NightmareFace close-up]] of his face, especially with that '''tongue'''... *shudder*

** In fact, anything ''anyone'' says in ''House of the Dead 2'' (and there's plenty of examples in the other games as well). There's enough to fill [[Narm/HouseOfTheDead their own page]]. But how could anyone do that?

** It should be noted that in HOTD 3, each bullet a boss takes will empty more of its yellow BreakMeter every time it succeeds in attacking you; a boss has its maximum "stamina" level at the start of the fight. [[FakeDifficulty The Fool's stamina is initially -just barely- low enough to where it is possible to halt it the first time if every shot is accurate, done as fast as possible, and you begin with a fully loaded shotgun.]] As such, The Fool ends more games (or causes more continues) than even the final boss.

* AscendedMeme: ''Suffer Like G Did'' is a PS3 achievement where you need to be on your last life bar and then complete the level.

*** ''Especially'' [[TarotMotifs Justice]]. To elaborate, one of Justice's attacks involve grabbing you, and you have to shake the controller SMG ''fast'' in order to break free of his grasp or he will lick you ForMassiveDamage. The [[BlatantLies lovely]] [[NightmareFace close]][[Squick -up]] of his face, especially with that '''tongue'''... *shudder*

*** ''Especially'' [[TarotMotifs Justice]]. To elaborate, one of Justice's attacks involve grabbing you, and you have to shake the controller SMG ''fast'' in order to break free of his grasp or he will lick you ForMassiveDamage. The [[BlatantLies lovely]] [[NightmareFace close-up]] of his face, especially with that '''tongue'''... *shudder*

** One of The Fool's attacks consists of him shaking up the cage and raining corpses down upon you. Most of which will ''damage you'' if you don't shoot them out of the way.

* ThatOneBoss: Magician, Wheel Of Fate, The Fool, The Emperor, the list goes on and on, really...

*** ''Especially'' [[TarotMotifs Justice]]. To elaborate, one of Justice's attacks involve grabbing you, and you have to shake the controller SMG ''fast'' in order to break free of his grasp or he will lick you ForMassiveDamage. The [[BlatantLies lovely]] [[NightmareFace close-up]] of his face, especially with that [[Squick tongue]]... *shudder*

*** ''Especially'' [[TarotMotifs Justice]]. To elaborate, one of Justice's attacks involve grabbing you, and you have to shake the controller SMG ''fast'' in order to break free of his grasp or he will lick you ForMassiveDamage. The [[BlatantLies lovely]] [[NightmareFace close-up]] of his face, especially with that ''[[Squick tongue]]''... *shudder*

** With a plot involving teenagers going to a rave, in-game footage used as part of the movie, and only a brief cameo of the games' characters at the end, [[DisContinuity let's just say that movie never existed]]. Though, it's just bad enough to be great [[AlternateDVDCommentary riff]] material.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Some shots of the protagonists shooting at zombies were from ''the original game, with an "Insert Coin" message blinking on the screen!''

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: Has the dishonor of being the first game series UweBoll got to butcher.

* {{What An Idiot}}: Who keeps something important, like, say, a vital cure sample, on the ''back of their belt? Where it can easily get ripped off?''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Playing ''House Of The Dead 2'' for the first time and [[spoiler:reaching the Stage 5 boss provided that you played ''House Of The Dead 1'' in it's entirety beforehand]]
*** [[spoiler: Even better once you realize his lines aren't as [[{{Narm}} Narm-filled]] as the dialogue for the other characters.]]

** HOTD2's voice acting

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The Magician and Emperor's boss themes
** and in HOTD: Overkill, Jasper and Brutus' Boss theme (they share one).

** ''Overkill'' adds in exploding [[strike: zombies]] mutants, that, if you don't nail with a headshot, will damage you immediately. The last boss spawns them endlessly.

** The infamous "Suffer like G did." line in HOTD2. Would have been imposing if the creature hadn't presented it as a question.

** Done [[NarmCharm intentionally for such purpose]] in OVERKILL.

* {{Squick}} - Fat zombies that can have holes punched in them, incest in Overkill, open beating hearts...there's frequently stuff one shouldn't dwell upon. Some of the water zombies in HouseOfTheDead 2 look like they could be [[ReturnOfTheLivingDead Tarman's]] clone, and Tarman is rather Squicky to a lot of people.
** Then there's more of ''Overkill'' where we have macabre, disgusting bosses like the freaks in the Carnival, the Lobber and Mother itself. It doesn't help that when she spawn mooks from her...erhm... ''womb'' it looks like she's defecating. [[spoiler: Also Warden Darling kissing his old, withered mother on the lips and Varla after operation, with Mother's brain sticking out of her head.]]

** The second [[YourMileageMayVary was a decent movie]]. On its own it would have been good. This can be attributed to a director other than Uwe Boll being involved.
* {{What An Idiot}}: Who keeps something important, like say a vital cure sample, on the ''back of their belt? Where it can easily get ripped off?''

* ThatOneAttack: Ask ''anyone'' who has endured through The Fool's final attacks. It got nerfed in the Wii port, thankfully.
** Erm... no it didn't.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: For a game to be a first-person shooter with zombies, this is inviteable.

** Expecially for the zombies and bosses in the fourth game.

* {{Squick}} - Fat zombies that can have holes punched in them, incest in Overkill, open beating hearts...there's frequently stuff one shouldn't dwell upon. Some of the water zombies in HouseOfTheDead 2 look like they could be [[ReturnOfTheLivingDead Tarman's]] clone, and Tarman is rather Squicky to a lot of people.

* AdaptationDecay: The first movie. Your mileage may vary about the second but all you need to know about the first is that Uwe Boll was in charge.

** Done [[NarmCharm intentionally for such purpose]] in OVERKILL.