Resident Evil
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.
Resident Evil
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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.
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Go beyond the realms of death with Sylvio
From out of the murky depths crawls a classically weird horror game.
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Exploring the cramped, beautiful cinematography of survival horror
The hidden pleasures of “bad movies.”
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The House and the Labyrinth
Resident Evil’s remake is the series’ fullest exploration of architectural horror.
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Deaf Resident Evil and Onimusha composer has been faking it all along
In a scandal on par with Milli Vanilli and Manti Te’o’s girlfriend, Mamoru Samuragoch, the composer of the soundtracks to Capcom’s Resident Evil Director’s Cut and for the Onimusha series, has owned up to not actually writing any of his music for the past fifteen years, since he went completely deaf
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Box art review: The pure terror of Resident Evil Outbreak: File #2
It’s the details that count.