It’s Not Borderlands, the Worst Video Game Movie Stars Christian Slater With a Horrendous 1% Rotten Tomatoes Score

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It’s Not Borderlands, the Worst Video Game Movie Stars Christian Slater With a Horrendous 1% Rotten Tomatoes Score

The video game curse strikes again! While gamers and movie fans alike are still reeling from the spectacular failure of Borderlands at the box office, it’s worth remembering that Hollywood’s obsession with adapting interactive entertainment has produced far worse results.

The Eli Roth-directed Borderlands adaptation starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart may have crashed and burned with a dismal 10% Rotten Tomatoes score, but it’s practically Oscar-worthy compared to the absolute bottom of the video game movie barrel.

That dubious honor belongs to a film so terrible, it makes Borderlands look like a masterpiece.

When you’re alone in the dark, the real horror is the movie itself

Long before Borderlands disappointed audiences worldwide, a pioneering survival horror game called Alone in the Dark revolutionized gaming in 1992. This groundbreaking title featured 3D characters against pre-rendered backgrounds and established many conventions that would later define the horror genre in games like Resident Evil.

Fast forward to 2005, when director Uwe Boll decided to adapt this beloved game into a feature film starring Christian Slater as paranormal investigator Edward Carnby.

The result? A cinematic disaster of epic proportions that earned an almost impossible 1% score on

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—making it officially the worst-rated video game movie adaptation of all time.

With a $20 million budget, Alone in the Dark managed to recoup only $12.7 million at the box office. Critics savaged the film for its confusing plot, laughable special effects, and particularly Tara Reid‘s wooden performance as an archaeologist. One reviewer famously asked if the film was “more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch”—and concluded it wasn’t even close.

What makes this failure especially tragic is that the original screenwriter later revealed his script was far more faithful to the source material. However, director Boll reportedly demanded numerous changes that ultimately destroyed any connection to what made the game special in the first place.

The king of terrible video game adaptations

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While Borderlands represents a recent high-profile failure in the video game adaptation space, Uwe Boll has built an entire career on creating spectacularly awful game-to-film conversions. His filmography reads like a graveyard of beloved gaming franchises.

Beyond Alone in the Dark, Boll’s video game adaptation resume includes House of the Dead (3% on Rotten Tomatoes), BloodRayne (4%), and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (4%). This consistent track record of failure has earned him a reputation as perhaps the worst director to ever tackle video game adaptations.

What’s particularly fascinating is how Boll managed to continue securing funding for these projects despite their critical and commercial failures. His Far Cry adaptation (12%) in 2008 made less than $1 million on a $30 million budget—a financial disaster that would end most directors’ careers.

Ironically, while Hollywood continues to struggle with video game adaptations, the Alone in the Dark franchise itself received a well-received reimagining in March 2024. This

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features David Harbour and Jodie Comer in the lead roles, proving that sometimes the source material deserves better than what the silver screen offers.

What’s your pick for the worst video game movie adaptation? Does Alone in the Dark deserve its rock-bottom rating, or is there another contender for the crown? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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