Films like Resident Evil: Degeneration.

Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme animation / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Resident Evil: Damnation (2012) poster
1. Resident Evil: Damnation2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017) poster
2. Resident Evil: Vendetta2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Next (2007) poster
3. Next2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Resident Evil: Death Island (2023) poster
4. Resident Evil: Death Island2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) poster
5. The Matrix Reloaded2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Constantine (2005) poster
6. Constantine2005

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ghosts of Mars (2001) poster
7. Ghosts of Mars2001

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Green Lantern (2011) poster
8. Green Lantern2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) poster
9. AVP: Alien vs. Predator2004

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) poster
10. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation1997

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Covenant (2006) poster
11. The Covenant2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Attack on Titan (2015) poster
12. Attack on Titan2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Resident Evil: Degeneration’s neighbours — where are yours?

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