![]() ![]() ![]() Resi also does a neat trick with its characters, making them both in the dark (like the audience) but also completely capable in this scenario: Alice, Matt, and Spence have lost their memories. We have well-spaced set pieces and jump scares all the way through, including but not restricted to: water zombie’s eyes open, Red Queen slices and dices lovely Colin Salmon (indicating anyone is fair game), zombie attack, zombie dog attack, Alice kicks zombie dog in the face, etc… Resident Evil does not fuck about.Īnd Resident Evil continues to not fuck about for the whole run time. It’s a corporate nightmare where a recognizable day at the office turns into mass carnage. A horribly claustrophobic lift sequence ends in decapitation. ![]() In response the Hive’s AI “The Red Queen” shuts it down and eliminates everyone. An unknown figure has stolen and deliberately released a vial of the “T-Virus,” contaminating the whole of the facility. After a few lines of exposition explaining what the evil Umbrella Corp is we find ourselves in the underground lab complex known as The Hive. Resident Evil wastes no time at all in getting going and the opener – virtually a pre-credits scene – is pure horror. We’re allowed to like Event Horizon after all.įirst the set up. Watching it 20 years on and it still holds up as an effective, gory, and yes, actually SCARY horror sci-fi. But not enough praise is given to Resident Evil. Through various missteps it’s become all very easy and “hilarious” to dismiss Paul “what script?” Anderson as a hack (oh except Event Horizon, people are allowed to like Event Horizon). But that does not mean he’s a bad director. He’s not even the best director called “WS” Anderson, even though he isn’t actually called Wes Anderson. Anderson probably isn’t the best director called Paul Anderson working currently. ![]()
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