# Hollywood decides "House of the Dead 2" is a good idea. Here's my foot up your ass.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-decides-house-of-the-dead-2-is-a-good-idea-heres-my-foot-up-your-ass/276141
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 22, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-decides-house-of-the-dead-2-is-a-good-idea-heres-my-foot-up-your-ass/276141 "2004-11-22T18:14:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-decides-house-of-the-dead-2-is-a-good-idea-heres-my-foot-up-your-ass/276141/1 "2004-11-22T18:14:11Z")
Can I possibly remark on an idea so bad it will make “Big Top Pee-Wee” seem high-minded?
[The answer is no. No, I can’t.](http://chud.com/news/529)
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-decides-house-of-the-dead-2-is-a-good-idea-heres-my-foot-up-your-ass/276141/2 "2004-11-22T18:19:17Z")
No. Please _God_, no. _hides in corner_
The only thing I liked about the first one was the fact that when somebody died, you got that cool video-game-looking “Game Over” red screen. And then they stopped doing it about a third of the way through.
I think I’ll pass. I am, however, anxiously awaiting _Sleepaway Camp IV_.
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### Author:  [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-decides-house-of-the-dead-2-is-a-good-idea-heres-my-foot-up-your-ass/276141/3 "2004-11-22T18:26:57Z")
At least the first one had Erica Durance (Lois Lane from _Smallville_ – then credited as Erica Parker) in an extended topless scene. If I were running the production of this one, I think I’d send it straight to VHS, so at least I’d have something to blame for the crappy gross.
Come to think of it, those two words are exactly how I’d describe the first one.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-decides-house-of-the-dead-2-is-a-good-idea-heres-my-foot-up-your-ass/276141/4 "2004-11-22T19:44:09Z")
> [@Chastain86](#):
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> Can I possibly remark on an idea so bad it will make “Big Top Pee-Wee” seem high-minded?
Well, since you brought it up…
> [@USA Today](#):
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> Paul Reubens, the man behind the bow-tied, rouge-cheeked Pee-wee, is working on a script for a third Pee-wee movie, a belated follow-up to 1988’s Big Top Pee-wee…
[Linkitty](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20041109/en_usatoday/backtopeeweesplayhouse)
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-decides-house-of-the-dead-2-is-a-good-idea-heres-my-foot-up-your-ass/276141/5 "2004-11-22T21:00:02Z")
If I were Paul Reubens, I think I’d be lying low for another decade or so, just to make sure everyone had forgotten about my bad moment in the adult peepshow.
As to HOTD II… why? I was under the impression the first one didn’t make any money. Why make a sequel to a movie that wasn’t profitable? Or was it so incredibly cheap that it made money despite the fact that everyone seems to have thought it sucked?
At least if it’s a new director, he’ll have an easy act to follow…