Orson Welles once said that making a film was “the biggest electric train-set a boy ever had!” Dr. Uwe Boll is definitely among the pantheon of the great auteurs, the directors who took control of their films and made every aspect of production their own.

Boll (his first name should be pronounced ‘you-vaaa’) started out of film school directing thrillers but he made his name adapting videogames, starting with the arcade shoot-em-up, House Of The Dead in 2003; a bright and silly rip-off of every zombie movie you’ve ever heard of but with more teens and bullets. He followed this adaptation with Alone In The Dark in 2005, a broad bastard of H.P. Lovecraft, Aliens and Tara Reid.

Both films got execrable reviews, one reviewer going so far as to say that he serves as a benchmark for all purveyors of bad cinema.  Certainly popular opinion is damning: four of his films currently grace the Internet Movie Database’s mythic ‘Bottom 100’ list, a stratified voting chart of exactly how far below the bottom of the barrel it’s possible to scrape.  And yet, there is so much to love about the man they call The Master of Error.