Victoria Pratt (10/05 House of the Dead 2)
Excerpt from Bloody Disgusting 10/31/05: Victoria Pratt | House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim
‘House of the Dead 2′ Posters Show Some Flair
By Bloody Disgusting Staff on October 31, 2005
Coming next Spring from Lions Gate Films is the non-Uwe Boll sequel House of the Dead 2 (becoming a zombie set report, which stars Sid Haig, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Sticky Fingaz, James Parks, Victoria Pratt and Ross Patterson. Today the in-progress teaser posters were released for the film, which was directed by Mike Hurst and written by Mark Altman, Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer. Picking up where the last film left off, government operatives investigate the island and the mysterious house.
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Excerpt from UGO 1/06: Victoria Pratt
Victoria Pratt of House of the Dead 2
Interview by Troy Rogers, contributing editor
More zombies. More mayhem. And yes, Sid Haig. There will be blood. House of the Dead 2 premieres on SCI FI Channel on Saturday, February 11th, 2006. Get down with the sickness as we interview the gorgeous Victoria Pratt, screenwriter Michael Roesch and review this attempted comeback from the dung heap that was Uwe Boll's House of the Dead. The hot chicks of horror and sci-fi don't get any hotter than the butt-kicking beauty Victoria Pratt. Coming from the world of sci-fi/fantasy television on such shows as Mutant X, Cleopatra 2525 and Xena, Victoria recently made the transition to film (of the TV variety) with House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim, debuting February 11th on SCI FI Channel. With so much sci-fi and fantasy on her horizon, we got a chance to sit down and talk to the ex-mutant about her zombie-killing skills, what she does to keep that rock-hard body in shape and the allure of oysters.
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UGO: How do you feel about being known as a sci-fi/horror chick? Are there any fears of being typecast?
VICTORIA: I don't think so. Fantasy television had a real run, it was a big thing for a while and the way that I look at it is that it's something you can only do when you're young and there's going to come a point when they're not going to want to see me swinging around in next to nothing. I had a blast doing it and I've been able to do cool stuff afterwards, so I don't worry about getting typecast at all. That just means you've been working.
UGO: Lately your career has ramped up with a lot of projects. How often do you get to train these days?
VICTORIA: Fitness has always been a part of my life since I was a little kid. There's never been a time in my life where it hasn't been a big deal. I ran track for 15 years, I did kickboxing and I did the whole fitness thing. I work out in some form or another almost every day. I've really gotten into volleyball. It's actually called "wallyball," and we play on a raquetball court. It's crazy exercise and we play almost every day for two hours. I do lots of hiking and I just got back into my kickboxing again, which is great. I'm always active, it's the one thing that I can count on. When I was in New Zealand, I did some Thai kickboxing and it's ridiculous, unless you want to kill someone or be killed, it's so violent. It was all about grabbing someone's head and ramming it into your knee.
UGO: Do you still practice Shotokan Karate?
VICTORIA: I just do the North American kickboxing right now. It was really frustrating for me, you'd get a series and then move to another country or city and whatever program you were in, you'd have to stop and then start the whole belt process over again. I hated the stopping and starting. Now I've found something that I can just come back to all of the time and not have to worry about the belts, because I was obsessed with it. I just love it, but I can't devote that much of my time to it.
UGO: How did you prepare for your role of Henson in House of the Dead 2?
VICTORIA: I didn't have a lot of time to do any preparation for Henson. Charlie [Parrish] our gun guy was a real stickler for holding it right and knowing how to use the guns and stuff, and I love guns, so I was a very happy student. It was all about learning how to hold the gun, how to stand and run with it and stuff like that. As far as everything else, it wasn't a character that was so different from roles that I've already played. She was a tough, kick-ass woman and I didn't have to reach too far into my pocket to find that character.
UGO: Mark Altman also wrote the first film. Does he have a specific approach to zombies?
VICTORIA I don't know, I think he probably has it in his head what these zombies are all about. I don't think that he's only about zombies. He is kind of becoming the horror guy, which is funny because when you meet him, he's just so adorable that you can't imagine these psychotic things would ever come out of him. It's always the quiet ones.
UGO: House of the Dead is a huge video game property. How much of a gamer are you?
VICTORIA: You know what, I'm not allowed to play video games. When I did Cleopatra 2525, we shot that over in New Zealand and my friends gave me a Gameboy to take over on the plane and I got addicted to it. Tetris, that's all it was. It was just that one game and I got so completely pie-eyed obsessed with this game that I actually gave myself migranes and it was changing my vision. We didn't sleep over there because we were just working all the time and we had to be in the make-up chair by 5AM, so that meant getting up at 3:15AM to workout and a 45-minute drive to the set, it was ridiculous. At midnight I'd be sleeping and you know when you wake up to roll over, well, I would say, "Oh, I can't sleep, I better go play my game." There was a point on the show where I was looking at myself and I had these bags under my eyes and I was just exhausted, and it's because of that damned game. I can't do the games, man, because they'll take over. They just get me, I'm weak. I love them but I've got to control myself.
UGO: Your scenes with James Parks in House of the Dead 2 were pretty funny.
VICTORIA: He's the bad guy, of course. If you met James [Parks], you'd be like, "How can you be so psychotic?" He's the nicest guy you'll ever meet. We had this great relationship when the cameras weren't rolling, chatting and laughing, and as soon as the cameras started rolling we had to hate each other, it was so bizarre.
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Excerpt from All Things Zombie 1/29/06: Victoria Pratt
More Zombies Premiere in February on Sci-Fi
Sunday 01/29/06 by Dead Kev
House of the Dead 2 coming to the Sci-Fi channel...Uwe Boll is not.
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Next month, on Saturday February 11th, they'll premiere the Uwe Boll-less House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim. It stars Emmanuelle Vaugier (Saw II), Victoria Pratt ("Mutant X"), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), Mircea Monroe (All Souls Day), and Sticky Fingaz. Sticky Fingaz? You mean, the barbecue restaurant? You can already pre-order the DVD HERE. The DVD is set for release on March 21, 2006.
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Excerpt from Joblo 2/4/06: Victoria Pratt
House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim (2005)
Written by: The Arrow
Director: Michael Hurst
Starring: Emmanuelle Vaugier/Alex
Ed Quinn/Ellis
Sticky Fingaz/Dalton
Victoria Pratt/Henson
PLOT-CRUNCH A College is taken over by peeved Zombies and its up to a Special Unit of badasses to cleanse the premises while attempting to get a sample from a first generation undead in the name of developing a cure. Let the bodies hit the floor!
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Victoria Pratt (Henson) had the sexy bod and the chops for the part.
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Excerpt from Beyond Hollywood 2/5/06: Victoria Pratt
House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim (2005) Movie Review
05 February 2006 - by Nix
The film’s standout comedy sequence has Bart cajoling superior officer Henson (Victoria Pratt) into taking his picture with a recently killed female zombie.
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Victoria Pratt: 2/8/06 Sci Fi Wire
Dead Is Ambassador's Last Shot
Victoria Pratt, who stars in the upcoming SCI FI original movie House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim, told SCI FI Wire that the movie shot in Los Angeles' shuttered Ambassador Hotel, the last production in the historic building. "We got to shoot in the Ambassador Hotel, which is probably one of the most famous hotels in the world, and it was the last film that got shot there, because they're actually tearing it down," Pratt said in an interview. "And the cast was ridiculously fun. It was like just out-of-this-world crazy good times, with lots of laughing. Plus, I got to tote a big-ass gun around and [be] a big old hero. It doesn't get much more fun than that." (The Ambassador Hotel, home of the Cocoanut Grove and site of the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, was torn down last month to make way for a new school building.)
Pratt, who spent several seasons playing Shalimar Fox on the syndicated SF television series Mutant X, co-stars in House of the Dead 2 alongside Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed Quinn, Sticky Fingaz and Sid Haig. The actress plays one of several military types and government operatives/scientists who spring into action when zombies threaten to take over the planet, starting with the students at a college campus. "The zombies were really freaky," Pratt said. "They did a great [job] on the makeup, so you didn't feel like you were being, you know, a horrible person by shooting a human being. You could really believe that these things were going to tear you apart if you didn't do what you had to do. And I love guns, which made it even more fun. Charlie, our armorer, he's done his stint in the military, and he loves guns, and he loves women who love guns! So it was great to be able to shoot some cool guns." House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim premieres Feb. 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Excerpt from Blog Critics 2/15/06: Victoria Pratt
Sci-Fi Channel Movie Review: House of the Dead 2
Written by Chris Beaumont Published February 15, 2006
The acting is better than in the first film, and average for your typical DTV zombie film. The cast is led by Emanuele Vaugier, of Saw II fame, she is convincing as our team leader, Alex. She is supported by Victoria Pratt (Cleopatra 2525, Mutant X) as one of the military unit.
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Excerpt from Victoria Pratt Online 3/15/07: Victoria Pratt
House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim (Lions Gate)
Air date: to be determined
Director: Michael Hurst
Starring: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed Quinn, Sticky Fingaz, James Parks
This is a whole new cast and production team. The only carry over from the 1st movie, is the source of the infection. When an outbreak occurs in the lab of a university, the military is sent in to control the outbreak. The effects are unreal!!!! So creepy! It won't be out for a while, but I'll keep you posted.
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Excerpt from Horror Asylum 5/26/09: Victoria Pratt
House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim (2005)
Review by Ryan McDonald Review Date: 26 May 2009
Ed Quinn and scientist Emmanuelle Vaugier are joined by hardened soldiers led by Sarge (Sticky Digits...er...Fingaz), and including buff (yet undeniably sexy) Victoria Pratt, misogynistic a-hole James Jean Parks, and sensitive rookie Nadine Velazquez.
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More scenes developing the characters played by the stunning Pratt (I’ll take her over Jenette Goldstein any day) and Velazquez (who in my view, have seriously romantic/sexual feelings for one another. I can’t see it just being my imagination…well, not entirely), and also genre faves Cornell (“Halloween 4 & 5”) and Haig (“The Big Doll House”, “House of 1,000 Corpses”), would have helped immensely (In fact, the two leads are so useless and bland, I’d have had Pratt and Velazquez as the leads).
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