Based on the concept of a popular Japanese video game series with the same name, Resident Evil is an action-horror Sci-Fi movie series. Produced under the German production house Constantin Film, the company bought the franchise’s rights in 1997 from the Japanese video game company Capcom, with Sony Pictures having film’s distribution rights.
Resident Evil movies Chronological Order:
- Resident Evil (2002)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
- Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
- Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
- Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017)
- Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City (2021)
3 Best Resident Evil movies:
- Resident Evil (2002) – with IMDb: 6.6/10
- Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) – with IMDb: 6.2/10
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) – with IMDb: 6.1/10
This Resident Evil movie series is one of the highest-grossing film series based on a video games series, grossed over 1 billion dollars in the box office worldwide. So, viewers, this is going to be a nice choice for binge-watch!
Is there a new Resident Evil movie coming out?
There is news about a sequel to Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City.
According to some reports by Subdury.com, the government has secured 11 million dollars for 20 projects. One of those projects is named “Umbrella Chronicles” and is being developed by film company Raccoon HG Film Productions. It is the same company which is behind the production of Welcome to Racoon City.
The order of the Resident Evil movies is in the following manner:
1. Resident Evil (2002)
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey
- IMDb: 6.6/10
- Platform: Google Play and YouTube
Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the first part of the Resident Evil series is released with the name ‘Resident Evil.’ Starring Milla Jovovich as the leading role in the film, this film depicts a conspiracy that led to the destruction of Raccoon City.
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The first Resident Evil movie is based on an unusual conspiracy in a fictitious city called Raccoon city in the United States. There is an underground research laboratory of one of the biggest companies of the 21st century, Umbrella Corporation in Raccoon city. The location of the Hive is kept hidden from the world. The company is wrongly believed by the world to be involved in the IT and pharmaceutical products operation.
In reality, the company deals in manufacturing and trading different contagious and deadly biological weapons, especially viral weaponry, to the military and the black markets around the world. Many of the employees of the company are clueless about their actual work and its source of income. The research facility of Umbrella Corporation in Raccoon city is called the Hive.
The story begins with a thief stealing a few biomechanical bottle capacitors, which contains experimental T-virus. To escape, the thief smashed a capsule and released it in the laboratory to cause chaos. As soon as the T-virus is released, and the entire premise started getting contaminated, the thief somehow managed to run away.
However, little did he know that the supercomputer that controlled the Hive has its defense system. This intelligent system was given the name “Red Queen.” Thus, as soon as it senses the release of T-Virus in the laboratory, it generates an alarm system that closes all Hive doors. The entire staff is locked inside the cabins and succumbed after the release of water and gas. Even the thief fell unconscious on the train because of the gas released.
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The scene then shifts to a huge mansion where Alice (Milla Jovovich) is waking up exhaustively. As she woke up, she couldn’t remember anything of the past. In her effort to connect with what was going on, she walks around exploring the mansion when Matt Addison finds her. Matt tried to hide Alice saying that she’s in danger.
As they try to escape, they are caught by a group of commandos led by James Shade. Alice and Matt are cuffed but soon released when Matt claims to be a cop. With Alice’s help, the group and Matt proceed to the Hive from a secret entrance from the mansion.
As soon as they enter, they spot another amnesiac, Spence, on the train. The scenario is clarified when commandos explain that Alice and Spence are Umbrella employees and guard the secret entrance to the Hive. They also explain that they also belong to the same company and save the people inside and seal the Hive thereafter.
On entering the research facility, the group becomes aware of the intentions of the Red Queen and her order over the place. 4 of the commandos, including Shade, are killed by the Red Queen’s laser defense system. Anyhow, Kaplan, with the help of another supercomputer, successfully deactivates the Red Queen. All of the doors of the Hive opened as Red Queen lost control. The people inside the doors were found to have turned into zombies due to the T-virus spread through the Hive. All the commandos, Matt, Spence, and Alice, try to save themselves from the Zombified employees and isolate themselves in a closed room.
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It’s when Alice regained her memory, and she remembered that she’s also an employee of the company and was working with her partner, Lisa. Lisa, who was Matt’s sister, has planned to disclose the secrets of this Hive to the world to stop the company from continuing its illegal operations. Lisa has asked Alice to provide her with a tube of T-virus to help with her plan. Little did they know that Spence heard their conversation. Spence then planned to steal those biomechanical tubes and sell them in the Black markets to make a good profit.
Spence tried stealing the tubes and released one in the Hive to escape easily in an attempt to execute his plan. After regaining their memories, Alice gets into a fight with Spence, but Spence, in an attempt to save himself, manages to escape from the room by locking others inside. But, on his way outside, he was bitten by the zombies.
Spence was carrying a briefcase that contains the antidote, and thus he tries to inject it into his body but was killed by the Licker at that time. Licker was Umbrella’s experimentation creature created by the. After some, Alice and others reached the train too and were attacked by the Licker, but they managed to kill it.
In the process, Matt was attacked by the Licker, and its wound increases till the time Alice and Matt arrived back at the mansion. Alice tries to inject an antidote into Matt to save him, but she was stopped by the scientists who suddenly walked in. Matt and Alice were separated.
In the next scene of the movie, Alice first woke up in the hospital. Soon after escaping, she realizes that the place is destroyed and contaminated. The movie ends with Alice holding a gun in the ruined streets of Raccoon City.
2. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
- Director: Alexander Witt
- Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric Mabius
- IMDb: 6.1/10
- Platform: Google Play and YouTube
After Resident Evil’s major success (2002), the direct sequel film was released of Resident Evil film series in 2004 with Resident Evil Apocalypse’s name. Directed by Alexander Witt and written by Paul W S Anderson, the movie starred Milla Jovovich continuing as Alice, and Sienna Guillory and Oded Fehr in supporting roles.
PLOT
The previous film ends with the arrest of Alice and Matt by the Umbrella Corporation’s scientists. Matt was taken away for the scientists’ Nemesis program, and Alice was admitted for a quarantine procedure in the Raccoon city hospital. The Umbrella scientists spoke of reopening the Hive for experiments and research.
The movie begins with the news coverage on the TV speaking of the Raccoon city’s regular weather. The movie scene now shifts to an underground laboratory called the Hive opened by a few scientists. As soon as the Hive is opened, all the scientists are attacked by the zombies. The zombies soon started spreading throughout the city. After knowing about the city’s zombies’ invasion, Umbrella Corporation started quarantining the city and saving their most important scientists from the danger.
They sent their first team to rescue Dr. Charles Ashford, responsible for discovering T-virus, and thus holds the maximum importance for Umbrella Corporation. When the team arrived at Ashford’s house, Ashford denied coming with them until his daughter, Angela, was safe. The agents then informed him that his daughter is rescued from the school. The car in which Angela Ashford was coming with the Umbrella security team met an accident, and Angela goes missing thereafter.
While the police department of Raccoon city arrested a few suspects who have turned into zombies, the zombies’ situation got worse. It’s when a Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (STARS) officer Jill Valentine entered and killed those zombies and order people and her officers to evacuate the city.
In the next scene, Alice woke up over an examination table in the hospital. She escapes the hospital only to find the city in ruins. To rescue the civilians, Umbrella uses the only bridge out of the town to sort the zombies’ survivors. But the chaos is created when a civilian who was bitten by a zombie entered the crowd of civilians. Reckoning the situation going out of hand, the Umbrella forces leader, Chief Timothy Cain, decides to shut the bridge’s exits and leave civilians on their own.
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When Valentine and her former partner, Wells Payton, hides at a place while saving civilians’ and their own lives, and were joined by a news reporter, Terri Morales, they were attacked by Licker monsters, and it’s when Alice reaches on the spot to rescue them with a shotgun in her hand.
Dr. Ashford hacks into the city’s CCTV to locate Angela. He tried locating survivors near Angela who can help him. When he spots Alice and her companions on the camera, he contacts them and offers to help them if they can locate his daughter and take her to him. Dr. Ashford was aware of Umbrella’s intention to destroy the Raccoon city by a nuclear attack to save their company’s name in the world.
Alice and Valentine and news reporter Morales tried reaching Angela’s location, but Umbrella deploys their deadly experimental creature, Nemesis, on their way. Alice tries to fight Nemesis separately, while Valentina rescued Angela with Olivera’s help, and Morales was killed on the way. Angela told them how her father had invented T-virus and its antidote to cure her genetic disease and stop her from turning into a zombie. She told them that the intention of making T-virus was to help handicaps around the world.
3. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
- Director: Russell Mulcahy
- Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr
- IMDb: 6.2/10
- Platform: Google Play and YouTube
Directed by Russel Mulcahy and written by Paul W S Anderson, the third installment of the Resident Evil movie series was released in 2007 with the name “Resident Evil Extinction.” Based on the video game series with the same name Resident Evil, this Resident evil film follows the escape of a few survivors left after the spread of T-virus worldwide, the group led by Alice (Milla Jovovich) against the zombies and Umbrella forces, set in Nevada desert. A few new characters are added in the film based on original video games series, including Claire Redfield, played by Ali Larter.
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Alice awakens in the washroom of a mansion. Being clueless, she begins the exploration of the place, soon attacked by the drone weapon and then dumped into a pit filled with many dead bodies of Alice by the Umbrella’s guards after taking dead cloned Alice’s blood sample. The following scene in the film depicts the spread of T-virus by the Umbrella Corporation throughout the world, turning all the countries out of order into a Zombieland.
The real Alice drives through the deserts of Salt Lake City, and after fighting herself off from the thieves’ trap and continuing her ride to Alaska, after receiving information from a scrapped book at a fuel station.
At the other location, a convoy of survivors moves across the country’s wastelands, searching for a safe place and appropriate supplies. Claire Redfield, Olivera, L.J., and Valentine led the convoy. Amid the wastelands of Nevada, in Umbrella facility, surrounded by the zombies, with the fenced boundaries, a meeting of Umbrella executives is going on where Dr. Isaacs is also present and has proposed to locate the real Alice to make use of her blood for developing a vaccine to control the effect of the virus. Although CEO Albert Wesker rejects the plea, he ordered Isaacs to continue his work on clones. Dr. Isaacs secretly continued his search for real Alice.
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The convoy of survivors reached an isolated place where hundreds of thousands of virus-infected crows attacked them, and they couldn’t escape alive. Also, Alice arrives at the scene and rescues the survivors by using the telekinesis powers she recently acquired to defeat the crows, depicted through an interesting action sequence.
Moreover, after rescuing them, Alice shared with them the information about the uninfected area in Alaska. After the survivors’ agreement, the convoy decided to move to Alaska. But soon realizing that they’re running out of fuel, they turned the convoy firstly to Las Vegas, hoping to get enough fuel there.
Simultaneously, Dr. Isaacs was desperately trying to locate Alice by tracing the energy patterns sent by Alice’s telekinesis. Against Wesker’s order, Dr. Isaacs sent out his army of zombies to ambush the convoy and bring the real Alice back. Most of the convoy, including L.J., is killed, and Carlos is left infected. Alice overruns Isaac’s attempt to shut Alice down through satellite.
She chased down Isaacs’ helicopter to end up in an underground laboratory, where she encounters a holograph of “White Queen.” White Queen informs Alice about Isaacs’ transformation into a Tyrant monster (evil resident), and it also told her that her blood could only cure the T-virus.
4. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller
- IMDb: 5.8/10
- Platform: Google Play and YouTube
The fourth chapter of the resident evil series film, after extinction: resident evil was written and directed by Paul W S Anderson, with its release date on 10th September 2010, hitting the box office worldwide. With the title Resident Evil Afterlife, the Resident Evil series continued, making the very famous video games series its reference. The movie follows Alice’s search for her companions and her encounters with the apocalypse man, Albert Wesker.
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After declaring her defeat plan to Wesker in the previous film, Alice, with her clones, reached Tokyo and fought Wesker and Umbrella’s guards, destroying Umbrella’s facility in Tokyo self-destruction mode activated by Wesker. The real Alice, anyhow, manages to save herself from the huge blast and chased Wesker to his helicopter, their fight resulting in the helicopter’s crashing, and Alice is seen to be coming out safely from the crash. Moreover, after six months of cluelessness about the other survivors, she moves to Alaska in search of them. She found Claire alone there, with her memory vanished and Umbrella’s device attached to her chest.
After rescuing Claire, they fly towards Arcadia but was stopped by few survivors in Los Angeles for help. There, Alice joins Luther, Chris, Bennet, and a few survivors for their journey to Arcadia. Chris acquaints them with Arcadia being a ship rather than a place in Alaska and gave the solution to reach Arcadia by a tank kept in the building’s basement. It turns out the tank was missing an engine and can’t be used any sooner. Bennet, realizing this, killed a soldier out of rage and flew away, taking an airplane to Arcadia.
By this time, a giant monster breaks free all the zombies imprisoned in the building, putting all the survivors in danger. The only way out left for them, as claimed by Chris, is a zombie-dug tunnel, and the group thus moves accordingly. But, Luther, and the rest of the soldiers, except Chris, are attacked by the zombies on the way. Only Alice, Claire, and Chris make it to Arcadia.
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On reaching Arcadia, they found the ship to be functional but deserted. Soon, they discover many survivors in the ship but were unaware of their location. In some time, they release the survivors who were being used as experimental subjects by the Umbrella corporation.
Arcadia, being one of Umbrella’s traps too. It is thereby revealed that Wesker is still alive and has turned into an evil state. Alice, K-Mart, Claire, and Chris fought Wesker and Bennet, who was already there after betraying them. Alice successfully locked Bennet with Wesker’s corpse in the room, but this, in turn, helped Wesker in reviving.
Wesker again tries escaping by an aircraft by bombing Arcadia, but Alice smartly placed the bomb in his aircraft. Thus, aircraft explodes, and hideously Wesker escapes by flying away with the parachute.
Alice first announced the survivors’ safety on Arcadia over the radio and opened for anyone who needs a safe place. But soon, the event turned out the other way when umpteen fighter drones surrounded Arcadia.
5. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez
- IMDb: 5.3/10
- Platform: Google Play and YouTube
PLOT
Alice wakes up in a no-escape room in Umbrella base. After tortured by Umbrella-controlled Valentine, Alice, anyhow, manages to escape the facility and reaches the simulation of Shibuya Square, Tokyo. While fighting zombies off there, she’s helped by Ada Wong, an agent sent by Wesker for Alice’s help.
Wesker no longer works for Umbrella and wants to help Alice in saving humankind from extinction. He informs about the reactivation of Red Queen and the underground Hive in Kamchatka, Russia.
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Ada and Alice plan to secretly enter the facility and put an end to Umbrella’s misdeeds. They plan to join the other rescue team, including Leon, Berry, and Luther, in the Raccoon city suburbia area. On their route to the meeting place, both of the teams were faced with zombies. While Alice and Ada fought 2 Executioners, and a giant Licker monster stops the other team.
After reaching suburbia, Alice and Ada rescued a child named Becky, with whom Alice develops a motherly connection. Fighting their way off and saving Becky as well as rescuing Leon and the team from Licker monsters, they were successful in destroying the facility with Leon’s bomb.
6. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017)
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter
- IMDb: 5.5/10
- Platform: Google Play and YouTube
Released with the name Resident Evil: The final chapter, this film is also written and directed by Paul W S Anderson. This film is last in Resident Evil movies, based on the same name, Resident Evil, based on the video game series. Milla Jovovich, leading as Alice, takes one final chance to save a few thousand uninfected citizens of the world. And liberate those who have turned into zombies. Moreover, this film is one of the most interesting movies in the Resident Evil series, with its spectacular VFX and live-action scenes.
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After the events in 2012 Resident Evil Retribution (the previous part of the Resident Evil series), Alice realizes that Wesker betrays her. Soon, Alice encounters the Red Queen, who informs her about Wesker’s intentions and told her that she only has 48 hours to save around 4000 uninfected humans still alive in the world.
It also informs Alice about the 25 years old history of T-virus, discovered by Dr. James Marcus for her daughter Alicia. But Dr. Isaacs betrays Marcus and the order of Wesker kills him. There appears the cloned Dr. Isaacs with an undead army, which outrages the real Isaacs, and in their dispute, the real Dr. Isaacs is stabbed to death by the cloned one.
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Alice, after getting her hands on the antivirus, releases it, thus saving all those infected. And later on, Alice gains the childhood memories of Alicia Marcus as a reward from the real Alicia. The film series ends with Alice then drives her bike to different places to free the world while the flying drones chase her.
7. Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City (2021)
- Director: Johannes Roberts
- Writer: Johannes Roberts
- Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Avan Jogia, Donal Logue, Neal McDonough
- IMDb: 5.2/10
- Platform: Sony Pictures Releasing (Worldwide)
- Constantin Film (Germany)
“Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City” is a 2021 horror film that serves as a reboot of the Resident Evil movie franchise. The movie takes place in the iconic Raccoon City. A group of survivors navigate the outbreak of the T-virus and battle hordes of zombies and other mutated creatures. Also, drawing inspiration from the original video games, the film aims to provide a more faithful adaptation of the game’s storyline and environment, delivering a fresh take on the survival horror genre.
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During the 1980s, young Claire Redfield and her elder sibling Chris find themselves lived within the somber walls of the Raccoon City Orphanage. Claire forms an unlikely bond with Lisa Trevor, a girl marred by Dr. William Birkin’s insidious experiments. Also, driven by his affiliation with the formidable Umbrella Corporation.
Birkin orchestrates the orphanage’s sinister affairs, abducting innocent children for his enigmatic experiments. Claire’s fate takes an unpredictable turn when she narrowly escapes Birkin’s clutches, avoiding becoming a pawn in his enigmatic endeavors.
In ominous year of 1998, Claire’s path intersects with the haunting specter of Raccoon City once again. Hitching a ride on a semi-truck, she encounters an unsettling incident. Where a mysterious woman appears, only to vanish into the night.
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As a bizarre sequence of events unfolds, the truck driver’s loyal Dobermann unwittingly exposes itself to the woman’s blood, spiraling into a nightmarish transformation. Moreover, a local diner harbors yet more grim evidence of the impending disaster, as rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy witnesses blood flowing from the eyes of its owner.
In the heart of this turmoil, Claire seeks refuge with her brother Chris, aiming to unmask Umbrella’s malevolent machinations. Also, her revelations hinge on the revelations of journalist Ben Bertolucci, her trusted source in this world of shadows.
Chris’s departure for the police station leaves Claire vulnerable, as an enigmatic child and his deranged mother lay siege to her brother’s home. With the aid of a motorbike, Claire escapes, embarking on a journey marked by significant discoveries. The enigmatic STARS Alpha team converges at the police station. Moreover, their mission was to investigate the ominous Spencer Mansion and the fate of the Bravo team.
Amidst this shadowy backdrop, Chris, Jill Valentine, Richard Aiken, Brad Vickers, and Albert Wesker set foot into a nightmarish scenario. Unbeknownst to his comrades, Wesker is a puppet master of covert interests, using his knowledge to navigate the treacherous mansion.
Jill and Chris are reunited in the midst of chaos with a horde of undead in hot pursuit. The two find sanctuary within a secret passage, unlocking a journey riddled with danger. Meanwhile, the truck driver’s transformation into a bloodthirsty zombie paints a grim picture outside the police station. Chief Irons, once a figure of authority, attempts to escape.
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Only to be met with a barrage of gunfire from Umbrella guards. Amid this frenzy, the desperate trio of Claire, Leon, and Irons navigate a world spiraling into madness. Also, as the station succumbs to the undead, the trio’s escape leads them to the Orphanage, a place that holds secrets pivotal to their survival.
Encountering the enigmatic Lisa and the malevolent Licker creature, their path is fraught with peril. Lisa’s intervention, however, offers a glimmer of hope, guiding them towards a secret passage as Irons meets a grisly end.
Within the bowels of an underground laboratory, Claire and Leon uncover Umbrella’s abhorrent experiments on innocent children. Wesker’s sinister confrontation with Dr. Birkin escalates, culminating in a cascade of violence. However, the survivors forge onward, driven by an unrelenting will to escape the impending doom.
The final act unravels in a cataclysmic symphony of chaos. As Raccoon City crumbles and the Spencer Mansion meets its demise, a monstrous iteration of Birkin emerges, hell-bent on annihilation. Moreover, the survivors’ struggle is as desperate as it is unyielding, a symphony of courage against impossible odds.
As the city falls to ruins, a glimpse of survival shines through. Still the deadly vibe remains. Wesker awakens, shrouded in darkness, only to be presented with enigmatic sunglasses by a woman known as Ada Wong. Moreover, her introduction echoes like a whisper, leaving a trace of enigma as the curtains close on Raccoon City’s harrowing saga.
