Notoriously terrible director Uwe Boll has retired from film

His career saw petitions for him to stop and boxing bouts with critics

So bad it’s good So bad it’s often terrible but occasionally hilarious director Uwe Boll is to stop making movies because he’s run out of money.

The Canadian said he was increasingly unable to secure the budgets he needed for his action films and isn’t willing to go back to making small-scale ones.

He blamed the decline of the DVD market, which makes sense given his cult hits In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Alone in the Dark and more were all very Blockbuster bargain bin territory.

“The market is dead, you don’t make any money anymore on movies because the DVD and Blu Ray market worldwide has dropped 80 per cent in the last three years,” Boll told MetroNews.

“That is the real reason; I just cannot afford to make movies. I can’t go back to student filmmaking because I have made so many movies in my life, and I can’t make cheaper and cheaper movies at my age. It’s a shame. I would be happy to make movies but it is just not financially profitable.”

Rampage: President Down will be the last movie from Boll, who was previously the subject of a petition calling for him to retire.

He ended up responding to the petition in 2008, saying that “18,000 [signatures] is not enough to convince me [to stop].”

Asked how many it would take, he said: “One million”.