Resident Evil series is based on the story of Alice who fights with “The Umbrella Corporation” who created T-virus because of which the whole world is turned into Zoombie Land. Here is the list of all Resident Evil movies in order of release.
- Resident Evil (2002)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
- Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
- Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
- Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
About Resident Evil Movie Series
Resident Evil was initially a Video Game, Inspired by the game first Resident Evil movie was released in 2002 that was a huge hit in Box office.
Later with a run of more than 14 years, 6 sequels were released and the series become one of the popular action-adventure film series making a profit of $1.2 billion worldwide.
The Resident Evil series starts with the Break Down of T- virus, Soon the spread in the entire Racoon City, Alice manages to protect her, but dies in a helicopter accident, but Dr. Isaacs makes her alive and creates a clone of it as Alice is the only person whose DNA has the cure of this virus.
After The complete World gets infected by T-virus, she decides to Destroy the “The Umbrella Corporation” who is responsible for all this.
Resident Evil Movies In Order: How To Watch Resident Evil Series?
The first movie was released in 2002 with name Resident Evil that Introduces you with “The Umbrella Corporation” known for creating deadly Bio- Weapons and performing Unusual and Illegal Experiments. The series starts with release of T- Virus in “The Hive” and we meet Alice with other commandos in the Lab, who are to protect everyone and shutdown the Red Queen.
Are the Resident Evil movies connected?
All the Resident Evil movies are connected to each other and tell the story from Break of T-virus to Alice, finally destroying “The Umbrella Corporation”. All the movies pick the story from where it was ended in the previous film and in addition, The resident Evil story is very complex and has many characters. Hence it is extremely important to watch Resident Evil movies in order to understand the Story and plot.
What is the order of all the Resident Evils?
Due to the lack of Numerals, the order of the Resident Evil might be difficult to understand, but the series is free from prequels, The chronological and the release of the series is the same. Here is the list of all Resident Evil movies in order that you should follow to watch
Resident Evil (2002)
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce
- Written By: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Runtime: 100 minutes
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
- Director: Alexander Witt
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric Mabius, Oded Fehr
- Written By: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Runtime: 94 minutes
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
- Director: Russell Mulcahy
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr, Iain Glen
- Written By: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Runtime: 94 minutes
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates
- Written By: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Runtime: 97 minutes
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez, Aryana Engineer
- Written By: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Runtime: 95 minutes
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Stars: Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts
- Written By: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Runtime: 106 minutes
Resident Evil (2002)
“The Umbrella Corporation” is a company that performs Illegal Experiments to create Bio-Weapons. “The Hive” is their main control room where all the Corporation makes all of their Bio-Weapons. By mistake a deadly virus named “T-virus” spreads in the Hive.
To prevent the spread of the virus outside the Lab, The Artificial Intelligence Machine named “Red Queen” Shuts all the door and kills everyone inside the Lab. Alice wakes up In a Mansion without her memory and with Matt some commandos takes them to the underground warehouse, where she meets Spence.
When Alice doesn’t Remember Anything, Commandos Explains to them that they work for The Umbrella Corporation and they are here to stop the spread of T-virus and protect everyone in the Lab. But for that, they have to fight with Zombies, Dangerous Creatures, and a Deadly Machine.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
The movie continues the story and starts with T-virus and Zombies spreading in Raccoon City and The Umbrella Corporation decides to take their personnel’s to a safe place. Within no time T-Virus, Zombies, and Lickers spread in the entire city and The Umbrella Corporation decides to drop a Nuclear Bomb to destroy the entire city.
Alice wakes up in a hospital and when she finds Zombies everywhere she decides to fight. In the process, she gets a call from Ashwood, who asks her to protect her Daughter. Fighting with all the Zombies and Lickers, Alice rescues Ashwood’s Daughter but gets killed with their Helicopter crashes.
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
T- virus has spread to entire world and Dr. Isaacs is working on the clone of Alice because the DNA of Alice has the cure of T-virus. Meanwhile Alice, Claire, Carlos and L.J. are roaming around the world in search of food and shelter.
Alice has got some powers due to the experiments of Dr. Isaacs. White Queen(Artificial Intelligence Machine) catches the frequency of Alice and tells the location of Alice to Dr. Issacs. While Trying to Capture Alice, Issacs gets infected and turns into a deadly Creature.
After sending all left humans for Alaska, Alice fights with Isaacs and kills him with the help of his clone, and learns that with the help of her DNA, she can make the cure of T-virus.
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
After killing Dr. Issacs, Alice with her army of clone goes to Tokyo to take revenge from Albert Wesker. While fighting Albert kills all the clones of Alice and injects a serum in Alice’s Body that kills all of her super powers. While Alice and Wesker are fighting, Their plane crashes and Wesker dies but Alice servives.
Alice starts her search to find another survivor that takes her to a Ship named Arcadia, where she finds that Wesker is still alive, In a Fight, Wesker again manages to escape, while Alice continues her mission to find other survivors.
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
The movie starts with, Alice waking up in a Lab of Umbrella Corporation. When she tries to escape, She is attacked by Zombies but she manages to survive. Wesker explains Alice that Umbrella is hacked by Red Queen and now she controls Everything and Wesker is no longer with Umbrella.
Fighting with Lickers and Zombies, Alice meets the daughter of her clone and reaches to Wesker who returns all of her superpowers.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
The movie starts with Red Queen Contacting Alice and explaining to her that the cure of T-virus is available in “The Hive”. When Alice reaches Racoon City, she finds that Dr. Isaacs is still alive.
Fighting with Zombies and Lickers, Alice manages to reach the Hive Lab, where Red Queen Explains that Dr. Isaacs was behind the spread of T-virus and his plan was to bring a controlled Apocalypse. Alice in search of T-virus reaches the headquarter of The Umbrella Corporation and meets the real Dr. Isaacs.
Dr. Isaacs was living the The Hive Lab and was waiting for the End of Apocalypse, Alice fights with Dr. Isaacs and manages to kill him and spread the cure of T-virus.
Complete Resident Evil Universe [ Film, Animation Movies and Television series]
The Franchise has also released A trilogy of animation movies that tells the additional story around the plot of resident evil.
After the end of the main Resident Evil story, Martin Moszkowicz announced the development of a reboot movie, that will explain the origin of the series. Besides, a television series and an Anime series are under production that will be premiered on Netfilx.
Here is the list of complete Resident Evil Universe in order
- Resident Evil (2002) – Movie
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) – Movie
- Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) – Movie
- Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) -Animation movie
- Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) – Movie
- Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) – Movie
- Resident Evil: Damnation (2012) -Animation movie
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) – Movie
- Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017) -Animation movie
- Resident Evil Reboot – Movie (TBA)
- Resident Evil – Television series (TBA)
- Infinite Darkness – anime Series scheduled for a 2021 premiere on Netflix
Which is the best Resident Evil film?
If you are wondering which Resident Evil movie is best? then here is the list of all Resident Evil movies ranked from worst to best based on ratings on IMDb
| Resident Evil Movies | Ratings on IMDb |
|---|---|
| Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) | 5.4/10 |
| Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) | 5.5/10 |
| Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) | 5.8/10 |
| Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) | 6.2/10 |
| Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) | 6.3/10 |
| Resident Evil (2002) | 6.7/10 |
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Conclusion
Based on Japanese video game franchise by Capcom. The Resident Evil series tells the story of T-virus, that spreads to entire world, infection of which turns anyone into a Zombies. The main character of this series is Alice, played Milla Jovovich. who DNA has the cure of T-virus.
Here in this article, I have provided a complete list of all Resident Evil movies in order, aka that correct order to watch the series. Besides I have listed all the Movies, Animation Movies, and Upcoming Television series in chronological order.
If you still have any other quarry then do let me know in the comments.