2022 marks 20 years since Resident Evil made its way to the big screen. The hit horror franchise may have started life a few years earlier with the PlayStation launch in 1996, but Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich's movie adaptation first hit cinemas in July 2002. To get the 20th birthday celebrations started early, Sony Pictures has released the latest film in the franchise - Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City - to rent and buy on digital platforms, 4K Ultra HD, DVD, and Blu-Ray now. And to help keep the party going, we're running down some of the most iconic moments from the history of Resident Evil across both films and gamesꦍ. It's about to get spooky.
The first zombie - Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Where better to start than where it all began? Feasting on the now-decapitated corpse of your freshly-deceased colleague, the first zo🃏mbie we ever encountered in the Resident Evil series set the tone for the next two decades of zombie action. The visceral dissection of its unfortunate victim and the pure menace of its slow turn t💃owards you proved so iconic that it resurfaced in not only the 2002 Gamecube remake of the game, but also in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, some 25 years later.
Dog through the window - Resident Evil
As if undead people weren't bad enough, Resident Evil's undead dogs are even more terrifying. The four-legged foes get their fair share of the spotlight throughout the movie series - including that infamous roundhouse kick - but their greatest performance stems from the very first game in the series. Haꦿving let you deal with little more than a handful of shambling, slow-moving zombies up until now, Resident Evil delivers a jumpscare masterclass, sending two dogs crashing through the windows of an otherwise unremarkable corridor. The chaotic interlude, matched by a jarring, discordant score, is enough to send panic through the heart of even the most seasoned horror veteran.
