Uwe Boll's Auschwitz trailer is just as respectful as you'd expect

It makes Schindler's List look like it was written on toilet roll.

Uwe Boll is a sad, strange little man: an odd German who likes making terrible movies based on videogames and then beating up the critics who don't like them. I'm speaking quite literally, by the way: a while back, he held a boxing contest with five of his most outspoken naysayers, then pounded them into mincemeat. Did I mention he's also a semi-professional pugilist? And a full-time asshole? (*cowers*)

From time to time, when Boll isn't setting back the art of videogaming the odd decade or two, he attempts to make an 'issues' movie: see Vietnam war movie Tunnel Rats, African genocide epic Darfur and 9/11 parody Postal, which was about as cutting-edge as... well, a box-cutter.

He's at it again, with Auschwitz, a movie based on the Holocaust. A worthy cause, you might think, until you read Boll's synopsis, in which he refers to it as "a meat plant for humans; a death factory". That's Boll playing the guard, too. Dressed as a Nazi. Gassing the Jews. Damn he has some self-esteem issues.

In all fairness, this short trailer is disturbing, which is presumably the intention, but it makes the movie no less despicable. When Steven Spielberg made Schindler's List, he refused to accept payment, citing it as "blood money". Somehow I can't imagine Boll extending the same courtesy. Luckily, no one buys his movies anyway.