The 10 Worst Movies Based on Video Games Ever Made

Movie producers take inspiration from just about every facet of life. They have made movies about serial killers, movies based on comic books, and also movies based on urban legends. With the advent of video games came ample opportunity for movies to be made on them—and to cash out on those sweet, sweet fandom dollars.

Sometimes, the movies that are made on video games can be great. (Final Fantasy, anyone?) Other times, the movies based on video games are cringe-inducing cash grabs that make you wonder what the heck producers were thinking.

For every Silent Hillthere is, there's a stinker. Here are the worst offenders to be based on popular video games, and why they failed at life so hard.

The 90s were the era of Mortal Kombat, and everyone had a favorite fighter. Kung-fu fighting heroes who hated one another for no apparent reason were huge, and every arcade had at least one Mortal Kombat machine for gamers to enjoy.

The Mortal Kombat franchise was a wealthy one, and the original Mortal Kombat movie was known for being goofy fun with somewhat decent special effects. As far as movie-based video games go, it was a good one.

Why the hit franchise pushed out this turd as a sequel is beyond us. The special effects were extremely low-budget. The acting was campy, as was the writing.

Overall, many would say this was what caused the annihilation of the Mortal Kombat franchise. Successfully rebooting Mortal Kombat will likely never happen.

The original DOA: Dead or Alive was a video game that was literally meant to be nothing but fanservice. It had scantily-clad women running around killing things, because that's totally what will happen in a zombie apocalypse.

The movie wasn't far off. The plot, action, and script were all so bad, it was laughable. Overall, the movie was very boobs. (Boobs is the nicest way we can describe this flick, since you'd have to be a tit of a person to watch it the whole way through.)

Uwe Boll has become pretty notorious for botching movies based on video games, and this is very true when it came to Far Cry. The video game involves rich storytelling about a lone man set in a "kill or be killed" situation.

Boll's version didn't involve typical Far Cry villains, but mutated humans. And a really mutated script. Boll's creation became laughably off-base, infuriating both gamers and casual movie-goers alike.

In theory, the 1994 release of Street Fighter as as movie was perfectly timed. In practice, it was so bad that actor Jean-Claude Van Damme still won't talk about it. (We think he was traumatized.)

Where to start with this disaster? Could it be the K-Mart quality costumes? The piss-poor fighting choreography? The classic "90s cheese" vibe that oozes out of every second of it?

We imagine this movie's filming went about as smooth as sandpaper. We send our condolences to Jean-Claud Van Damme, for the death of his faith in humanity following this film's making.

If Street Fighter didn't add in enough 90s B-movie cheesiness for your liking, you might want to check out Double Dragon. This was one of the only movie-based video games to be kid-friendly, and sadly, that just adds to its terrible quality.

Like the video game, this involves two brothers going through a cyber dystopian version of Los Angeles to save the day against a maniacal supervillain. Bad acting, cosplay-like costumes, and hilariously bad special effects are what make this a movie so bad, it's actually good.

The 90s were a gloriously awful time for movie-based video games, but then again, so were the 2000s. Much of this was thanks to Uwe Boll and his ability to trick video game franchises into signing over movie rights to him.

Seriously, the movie has people going on an island... for a rave. They then miss the boat to the rave, have to take another boat to it for an extra $1,000, and then they end up getting stalked by zombies.

Everything about this movie sucked, including the rave. (Seriously, the rave only had like 30 people in it anyway, so whoever threw it should fire their promoters.)

Oh, and uh, somehow two characters make out despite one puking on the girl's face an hour ago. In the world of Uwe Boll, all of this somehow makes sense.

House of the Dead was a film based on a video game involving zombies, vampires, and shooting them. Bad editing, bad writing, and no-name actors made this a serious box office flop, but that wasn't even the worst film he made.

Without a doubt, one of the worst movies based on video games had to be Postal. This Uwe Boll film was so bad, so mind-bendingly awful, it somehow managed to not even be remotely funny.

This was meant to be based on a PC video game that was totally based on off-kilter humor. This movie had a bunch of Hitler jokes, 9/11 jokes, and racism. On that end, it was at least true-to-game.

Unfortunately, none of the jokes were funny and it was way too late to make 9/11 relevant to pop culture. Times changed, people became enlightened, and no one wanted to deal with that low-quality humor.

BloodRayne was based on an Xbox game featuring a human-vampire hybrid hacking and slashing her way to... we really don't know what was the point of this. Just, you know, it was popular with emo kids back in the day.

The movie version played out much like a Hot Topic sale would: cheaply made, with the only real fans being kids who think they have problems because cheerleaders made fun of them.

This is the kind of movie that makes critics grab their My Chemical Romance albums and cry about the death of good movies. It's really that bad.

Only one person could create a movie this bad. (Oh, why yes! It is Uwe Boll! How'd you guess?!)

Need for Speed is one of the best racing video games you can buy, but that didn't translate into movies very well. The writers turned the script into a weird tale of an omniscient playboy billionaire who just wanted to watch everyone race pricey cars.

Even if you like expensive cars, this ended up being a very boring film.

This was one of the very first movies based on video games, and sadly, it still goes down in history as a prime example of everything wrong with the genre. They took the guy who played Mario in the Saturday morning cartoon show, and then put him into a terrifyingly noir live-action version of the video game world.

The Goombas look creepy. The entire introduction involves a nonsensical story about dinosaurs, a meteorite, and an alternate dimension. In the "mainstream" universe, the villains are mobsters who are creeping on Daisy.

Uh, what?

Yep. The lizard people look like humans, the women look like prostitutes, and King Koopa is a germophobe that pretends to be a lawyer. Everything about this movie makes no sense. The writing is piss-poor, and there's nothing good to say about the special effects.