It was a massive hit and spawned a string of follow-ups that have extended to several subsequent game consoles.Įnter director Anderson. It was an extremely fun actioner with clever puzzles and mazes, a very moody atmosphere, and even some legitimate scares. Borrowing extensively from George Romero's famous 'Living Dead' movies, the game involved a paramilitary squad exploring a large mansion and the secret underground laboratory beneath it while fending off hordes of flesh-eating zombies. 'Resident Evil' began life as a survival horror game for the first Playstation console whose original title in Japan was 'Biohazard'. None of these are good movies, per se, but they're all slick and efficient, relatively coherent, and pander to horror and action junkies successfully enough to turn a profit. Predator', and of course 'Resident Evil'.
Anderson seems to have had the best run at it, making unexpected hits out of game-based pictures 'Mortal Kombat', ' Alien vs. The history of the films-based-on-games genre has not been particularly distinguished, with most falling to hack directors working from incompetent scripts and tiny budgets. It's a self-perpetuating cycle of cinematic cannibalism.
Considering how liberally many video games lift their ideas from movies, I suppose it should come as no surprise that, when experiencing a drought of creative inspiration, the movies return the favor by lifting ideas from video games.
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