Resident Evil (2002)

 

The Umbrella Corporation, one of the most powerful companies in the world, has its success based on a secret undergriund laboratory, called "The Hive", where viral weapons are made. A new virus escapes and turns hundred of scientists into zombies and releasing the mutated Lab "Animals" that they were studying. A special task force is sent in to shut down the main computer and quarantine the deadly virus. What awaits them is beyond ordinary procedure.

 



Resident Evil Series

The video game series Resident Evil involves the creation of genetically engineered viruses which turn humans and animals into organisms such as zombies, the Tyrants or Hunters by a worldwide pharmaceutical company called the Umbrella Corporation.

Trivia.

• When Matt's arm begins to mutate there are no digital effects until the very end.
• Even though they're everywhere, the word "zombie" is never spoken in this film.
• The presidents of Capcom Japan and America have cameos as zombies. Capcom created the Resident Evil series.
• This film was originally titled 'Resident Evil: Ground Zero', but the title was changed after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the USA.
• Like in the games, after something is switched on/off, something else happens elsewhere. When the Red Queen is deactivated for the first time, all doors elsewhere are opened.
• “Resident Evil” was the second movie based on a video game directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. The first was Mortal Kombat.
• The movie has connections to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
• Anna Bolt learned how to scuba dive in order to portray the drowned research scientist who revives underwater.