Shameful Human of the Week (again): Uwe Boll

My initial goal was to not repeat Shameful Humans at all, and at the very least, never within the same calendar year. If anyone was ever going to manage to earn that title twice within eight months, however, it would surely be Uwe Boll. And here we are.

I originally declared the infamous German film director Uwe “Raging” Boll Shameful Human of the Week January 25, 2010. Back then, Boll was engaged in a bizarre email argument with Wired writer Chris Kohler for hating on his new film, Postal. Of course, the man’s record of disgracing video game franchises like House of the Dead and Dungeon Siege by turning them into unwatchable trash films didn’t help. Boll’s furious beat down of misled internet nerds during a boxing match in 2006 also contributed to my hatred of the man.

What has Uwe done to cause my anger to resurface? Well, it turns out the man has been hard at work on a new film called Auschwitz, which he claims “shows Auschwitz as this what it was: a meatplant for humans… a death factory.” In other words, Uwe is applying his clumsy and offensive touch to a movie about the holocaust. The NSFW trailer for the film makes it look like torture porn.

I don’t think I can say this any more clearly: the man who thought it was a good idea to splice game footage from House of the Dead into its corresponding movie is now directing a film about genocide.

Image: Adapted from Dungeon Seige (009) by Arbron under a CC-BY license.