2002 · horror · action · sci-fi
Resident Evil
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson1h 40m2002
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
Our read: Resident Evil (2002) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal horror · action · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / action, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- cold
- twisty
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“You want claustrophobic lab-zombie action, Milla Jovovich ass-kicking, and B-movie fun.”
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