Editing Resident Evil (section)

==Movies==
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Yeah, there are movies.

The first was a set of live-action films, but like pretty much all attempts at a live-action adaptation of a videogame, they fucking sucked like all shit. These are the atrocities that unleashed [[Alice]] upon the world, specifically so that director Paul W.S. Anderson could show off how awesome his wife Milla Jovovich is. [[wat|No, really]]. And despite the shit quality, the series remains one of the top-grossing film series of all time based on a video game. For these crimes (detailed on her page linked above), they shall never be forgiven. 

Mercifully, Capcom got off their asses and have given us some '''real''' Resident Evil movies; three so far, they are all fully animated CGI affairs that are actually set in the actual universe of Resident Evil and use regular characters.

''Degeneration'', the first film, brings back fan-favourite characters Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy. Set between ''Code Veronica'' and ''4'', it involves their efforts to stop an attempt by a madman to unleash the deadly G-virus and T-virus upon America.

''Damnation'' is a post-''4'' Leon-fest involving Leon fighting Ganados and lickers in some made-up Eastern European country. It's... mostly average, though with a few moments of stand-out [[Derp|stupidity]] (Leon gets thrown into a metres-thick stone column by a Tyrant and stands up moments later; the same Tyrant also grabs him and doesn't immediately squeeze him into paste, despite doing so to multiple enemies earlier) and [[awesome]] (Leon, a guy who can control Lickers thanks to a Plaga, and a dozen Lickers VS a Tyrant, which is portrayed perfectly - a lumbering, borderline-unstoppable juggernaut that takes being shot with a tank's main gun at point-blank range to take it down).

''Vendetta'' is a ''London has Fallen'' ripoff about Chris and Leon fighting a weapons dealer who got his hands on some Umbrella leftovers. Notable for some impressive John Wick-style gun battles and for finally bringing back Rebecca Chambers. Also notable for breaking the RE canon on par with the movies, with things like a zombie virus that can actually be '''cured'''; the only saving grace for it is the non-stop, dickflick-tier action and them properly using the game's cast.

''4D-Executer'' is the very early (as in, came out in 2000) CGI movie in the Resident Evil franchise and arguably the most traditionally horror-focused one to boot. The plot of this 19 minute-long movie is centered around a group of mercenaries coming to Raccoon City in order to find a scientist and her data on a new viral form, before the Sterilization Op goes ahead and wipes the slate clean. Everything goes south when they are attacked by a unknown B.O.W., defeat it, only to realize that the darn monstrosity has a truly scary ability... It was also notable for an impressively well-done plot twist near to the end, which cranks the horror up to eleven and actually makes a great deal of sense.

2021 saw the release of both a new live-action RE film, ''Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City'', and an online anime called ''Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness''.

''Welcome to Raccoon City'' is yet another "creative reinterpretation" of the RE storyline, so... don't get your hopes up too high. It attempts to cram the ''entire'' stories of both RE1 and RE2 into a single runtime, shifting between the events of the Umbrella mansion and Raccoon City, which are occurring simultaneously. It's technically better than the [[Alice]] films, and certainly has plenty of nods to the lore from RE1 and RE2, but in terms of being a faithful movie, it's crap. As to whether it's a decent "zombie movie"? ...Eh.

''Infinite Darkness'' is, like Degeneration, Damnation and Vendetta, set in the game continuity, and specifically takes place 4 years after RE4. It follows a teamup between Leon and Claire after a zombie outbreak occurs in Washington D.C.

A live action TV series was released in July 2022. It revolves around two female protagonists - sisters Jade and Billie Wesker - and shift between two points in time; their childhood, when they move into New Raccoon City ([[What|which is situated in South Africa]]), and a post-apocalyptic future a decade in the future, where the world is overrun by T-viral hordes. Fans are pretty much united that this is a dumpster fire of a series, thanks to an utterly idiotic plot (Umbrella ''putting the T-Virus into their widely-sold medicine'', having shit enough security in their main HQ that two teenage girls could get to their labs with ease, pretty much every zombie apocalypse cliche showing up...), cringeworthy lines ([[What|"Zootopia porn", everyone?]]), and (with the noticeable exception of Wesker/Lance Reddick) wooden to mediocre performances rendering it functionally dead to fans out of the gate, with people even starting to miss the old [[Alice]] films. It was canceled after one season in the least surprising move in Netflix's history.