A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

Boll is arguing from a producer’s, not a critic’s, perspective: low- to mid-budget genre films—especially those with recognizable IP like video games—can be structured to recoup costs more reliably than expensive studio “tentpoles.” The quote frames profitability as a function of break-even threshold: a $7–16 million film needs far less box-office and ancillary revenue (foreign presales, DVD/TV rights) to move into the black than a $50 million picture burdened by higher marketing and distribution costs. Implicitly, Boll is defending his business model and the economic logic behind making modestly budgeted adaptations that can sell internationally even if domestic reviews are poor.