At the height of his infamy, a petition titled “Stop Uwe Boll” garnered 357,480 digital signatures, and the domain uweboll.com simply contained the entreaty, “Please stop making movies.” Now, at last, he has. With no fanfare—with hardly any acknowledgement at all, in fact—Boll’s swan song, Rampage: President Down, was recently made available on iTunes and Netflix.

Apart from the video-game adaptations, a recurring theme of Boll’s filmography is scathing sociopolitical commentary with plenty of gratuitous, arterial-spurting ultra-violence. “Boll treats [filmmaking] more like a form of anger management,” as Variety put it, “working out his aggression one schlock opera at a time.”

The Rampage films follow a speechifying Kevlar suit-clad nihilist named Bill Williamson, described as “the number one most dangerous terrorist on U.S. soil,” on one bloody killing spree after another. Within the first few minutes of Rampage: President Down, the unnamed U.S. president has been assassinated. By mid-2016, given the “absolute fuck-up of our civilization,” Boll was already predicting a Trump presidency. (Uwe Boll: 1. Political pundits: 0)

“I love the Stalin quote, ‘Death is the solution to all problems,’ ” Boll told me on set, explaining the film’s essential philosophy. “It’s not easy for me to write something when I don’t have a message, when I don’t have something I want to tell the world. I want to point things out about things that matter now. It’s a story where I can put a lot of political thinking in. I think it’s important to make movies that hurt, where you get uncomfortable. I think that’s the great thing about the Rampage movies, is to throw people off their comfort zone.”

“The only direction I think I got was, ‘Run that way so we don’t get blood on your suit,’ ” said actor Zain Meghji, who played a news anchor in Rampage 3. He was wearing his own clothes—“There was no wardrobe budget,” he explained—and wanted to be excused from a scene to avoid getting splattered. There were no trailers or dressing rooms for the actors. Meghji got changed in the snack room.

Meghji wasn’t aware of Boll’s reputation when he got the part, but he didn’t have to audition, which was a plus. Earlier in the day, he asked a crew member, “Is this going to be good?”

“What we’re doing is good,” the crew member responded. “Not so sure about the end product.” Earlier in the week, the cast and crew had been shooting pyrotechnics-heavy action scenes in Maple Ridge Forest. The scenes mainly involved stunt guys repeatedly leaping out of the way of explosions.

“No accidents,” Boll reported happily. He was wearing a gray wool sweater and a Dungeon Siege baseball cap. “Well, a few people in hospital, but that’s usual for me.” He laughed, and proffered a packet of biscuits. “Cookie?”

As widely detested as he is, Boll seems pretty well-liked by his casts and crews, many of whom have worked with him several times over the years. (“I like Uwe,” Michael Madsen told me, despite what he’s said about the films in the past. “If he called me up tomorrow to be in a movie, I’d sign up in a heartbeat.”)

Behind the scenes on Rampage 3, there was some chatter about The Revenant, which was generating awards buzz at the time. Boll was appalled to learn that director Alejandro G. Iñárritu had apparently shot it over several months only during the golden hour. “I mean, who can afford that? I mean, it’s crazy. If it’s not your own money, oh, any time! When you think about what a waste of time and money that is, it’s amazing.” Rampage: President Down was shot in 10 days.