Resident Evil

Expectations are the trap of all adaptations. This Resident Evil movie lives in many shadows: the beloved game series, the false impression that the trailers gave that this was a very straightforward scary movie, and the towering legacy of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead. But the wonderful thing is that this movie is still fantastic. Even if it's not 'the scariest movie of the year,' it might just be the best horror comedy of this century — and the very first one to truly speak to our modern sensibility. Put another way, this movie often feels like a Twitch streamer playing a horror game, and the effect is both incredibly immersive and wholly unique.

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00:00 Theater Heckling 01:38 First Impressions 09:29 Jump Scares 11:20 Fear Factor 14:21 Very Short And Too Long 18:29 The Fury Road Comparison 20:34 The Non-Gamer Perspective 23:10 Game Design Onscreen 24:50 The Gamer Perspective 27:27 Loose But Faithful Adaptation 30:34 Austin Abrams & Aaron Paul 32:04 Marty Supreme 33:00 The Evil Dead Comparison 36:29 Twitch Era Horror Comedy 42:14 Buried Themes 44:13 Zach Cregger Check-In 45:17 SPOILER ALERT: The Ending 50:52 Closing Thoughts