may 20 (new date!!!)
RESIDENT EVIL: DEGENERATION
dir. Makato Kamiya
[2008, 97 min]
Melnitz Hall room 2534, The Design Room
Wednesday 5pm
Makato Kamiya’s 2008 Resident Evil: Degeneration exists as an odd hybrid of video game and film. Entirely computer generated, it visually resembles a cut scene of epic proportions, yet it has a comprehensive narrative that develops the video game franchise’s characters, and an eerie presence that asks the viewer to non-interactively experience survival horror, qualities the preceding live-action film trilogy notably lack. A virus outbreak following an airplane disaster requires zombie-killer Leon Kennedy’s steady trigger finger and lighting quick reflexes, as the government’s collusion with the villainous Umbrella Corporation is revealed. Notably, Degeneration is itself a zombie, reanimating, reinvigorating and crossbreeding known stories, games, and media.
Film notes by Harrison Gish
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