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Padlocks Fill a Resident Evil Poster Built on After Hours

Melbourne letterer Matthew Wong recasts Zach Cregger's game adaptation as a Scorsese-style one-bad-night movie.

A figure in fog lit by a flashlight beam, from Resident Evil

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Scoring Fear: Ryan Holladay and Jason Graves on the Sound of Dread

Two horror composers on building dread from almost nothing: a muted brass collage, music that waits on the player and a small metal oil rig that screams.

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The Sound of Dread, From Weapons to Dead Space [Podcast]

I ask Ryan Holladay and Jason Graves how dread gets built before the scare, and why a game score has to wait on a player in a way a film score never does.

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A Sea Made of Plastic [Podcast]

We go in on a police station built wrong on purpose, films rebuilt as late-'90s games nobody can play, and why Mario 64's water still felt like water.

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Save-point typewriters turn up in the Resident Evil film

Cregger says he set out to write a game as a movie, and mimicked Resident Evil 4's healing items exactly. The props do work the film cannot actually run.

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Facts About Animals Killed in Resident Evil

The player kills many animals throughout Capcom’s long-running Resident Evil series. The following is a collection of facts about these animals.

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The desolate mansion of Resident Evil

Resident Evil, released in 1996 for PlayStation 1, is hilarious—it’s so funny. The voice acting is ridiculous, the plot is sensational and the live-action cutscenes look like they’ve come from a porn parody film. In fact, that’s Resident Evil in a nutshell: from the campy character and costume desig

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How videogames are changing the action movie

Something strange happens with the camera at the start of Spectre (2015). The movie opens with a wide view of an elaborate Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City. We’re then shown a villain before focusing on James Bond, who starts to follow this villain. Bond and a woman then go into a hotel and he

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Resident Evil Zero is where monster movies go to die

2002’s Resident Evil for the GameCube was a luxurious, Gothic remake of the 1996 PlayStation original. It came out a year after Fatal Frame and Silent Hill 2, slotting perfectly into their bleak new visions of horror: unrelentingly dark, art-directed to the nines, and tense as shit. Resident Evil is

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Shut Up, DOOM 3

This article is part of a series called Shut Up, Videogames, in which critic Ed Smith invites games old and new to pipe down, or otherwise. In this edition, he looks at the most recent addition to the legendary first-person-shooter series, DOOM. I know DOOM has a contingent of fans and critics who e

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Sir Michael Rocks’ new video is an anime come to life

Japanese culture and hip-hop have a long relationship, from the genre’s mid-90s kung-fu obsession to Kanye’s mid-oughts evocation of Japanese pop art up through its current commingling in the very production of Drake’s ubiquitous “Hotline Bling.” The Chicago emcee Sir Michael Rocks has always been a

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The horror of Resident Evil 2’s police station

The impossible spaces of Resident Evil 2 recall The Shining’s Overlook Hotel.