Too Scary; Didn't Watch

RESIDENT EVIL (2002)

105 min
Apr 22, 2026about 1 month ago
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Summary

This episode of Too Scary; Didn't Watch recaps the 2002 Resident Evil film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, starring Mila Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez. The hosts discuss the movie's plot involving a secret underground facility called the Hive, a viral outbreak, zombies, and the protagonist Alice's fight for survival. The episode also includes personal stories from the hosts about grief, pet loss, and tax resistance.

Insights
  • Video game movie adaptations benefit from understanding the source material's level-based structure and can succeed by embracing rather than fighting that format
  • Behind-the-scenes collaboration between director and lead actor (Anderson and Jovovich) on character development led to both professional success and personal relationship
  • Early 2000s horror-action films used practical effects and creature design that, while sometimes unintentionally comedic, created memorable visual moments that resonate decades later
  • Corporate malfeasance narratives in sci-fi horror often present moral ambiguity where antagonists (like the Red Queen AI) may have justifiable motivations for destructive actions
Trends
Video game-to-film adaptations gaining credibility through director vision and fan service balanceEarly 2000s practical creature effects and gore becoming nostalgic reference points for modern horrorAI antagonists portrayed with moral complexity rather than pure villainy in sci-fi horrorFemale action leads in horror-action hybrids becoming franchise anchors (Jovovich's multi-film commitment)Collaborative creative processes between directors and actors improving script quality and character authenticity
Topics
Video game movie adaptationsPractical effects and creature design in early 2000s horrorFemale action heroes in horror-action filmsAI antagonists and moral ambiguityZombie horror tropes and variationsUnderground facility/claustrophobic setting horrorCorporate villainy in sci-fi narrativesViral outbreak and pandemic horrorDirector-actor collaboration in filmmakingFranchise building through character developmentGrief and pet loss (personal segment)Tax resistance and civil disobedience (personal segment)
Companies
Umbrella Corporation
Fictional evil corporation in Resident Evil that manufactures bioweapons and conducts genetic experimentation
HBO Max
Streaming platform mentioned as exclusive home for Hacks series and podcast
Quince
Clothing brand sponsor offering premium materials and direct-to-consumer pricing model
HomeServe
Home warranty and repair service sponsor providing coverage for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical issues
People
Paul W.S. Anderson
Directed the 2002 Resident Evil film and also directed Event Horizon and Alien vs. Predator
Mila Jovovich
Stars as Alice in Resident Evil; collaborated with director Anderson on character development and married him
Michelle Rodriguez
Played Rain in Resident Evil; also known for Fast and Furious franchise; had script rewritten to expand action role
James Cameron
Cited as calling Resident Evil one of his guilty pleasure films and praised Michelle Rodriguez's performance
Zach Kregger
Directing upcoming 2024 Resident Evil remake with 90-minute runtime featuring Kali Reese and Austin Abrams
Emily
Co-host who is scared of horror movies; shared personal story about euthanizing her cat Birdie this week
Sammy
Co-host who watches horror movies and recaps them; discussed tax resistance and personal experiences
Jason Isaacs
Played doctor character in Resident Evil; collaborates frequently with director Paul W.S. Anderson
Quotes
"This is my first time experiencing it in this way. And it's one of those things that you think will be really, really bad and it is so much worse."
EmilyEarly in episode (pet euthanasia discussion)
"You can't. You can't be in here. You must get out."
Red Queen (hologram character)During hive infiltration scene
"I did warn you, didn't I?"
Red QueenAfter being reactivated
"The love makes it worth it. It is. And it is. And it's, yeah, you can't. You have to feel all the things to feel any of the things."
Emily and Sammy (dialogue)Grief discussion
"I think it's time for us to be doing that. I think. Definitely. Not us, me and Sammy. Because we didn't."
SammyTax resistance discussion
Full Transcript
This is a Head Gump podcast. Hacks is back for its fifth and final season and so is the Hacks podcast. Join the Hacks creators and showrunners Lucia and Yellow, Paul W Downs and Jen Statsky as they unpack the Emmy-winning comedy series. On each episode, hear stories from the set, what goes on in the writer's room and how these beloved characters close out their final season. Watch Hacks streaming exclusively on HBO Max and listen to the Hacks podcast on HBO Max or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Emily, Henley and Sammy and you're listening to Too Scary Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy and I love watching scary movies and so I watch them so that you don't have to and we are missing Henley this week as you will have noticed. You've definitely noticed. She's sick, you guys. I hate to report it. We got to get this woman well. Do you think it's hand, foot and mouth again? Hand, foot and mouth makes me. It makes me laugh so much. It sounds absolutely horrible, but doesn't it sound so like. It's so funny that there's not another name. Come up with, give it a name. I mean, I know it has a name, but. That's a bad name. It's a bad name. At least call it like HFM or something. Let's make it something. Don't make us always have to say hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease. Stuff, you guys. They keep having it. I mean, most people I know that have kids have had hand, foot and mouth disease. At least once or twice. I didn't even know it was a thing until our friends started having children. Yeah, turns out it's a big thing. You learn so much. This is why it's important to talk to people and to live in community, you know. So that we know we're not alone. Exactly. When we find ourselves with hand, foot and mouth disease, we know that others have had it. Please send her all of your healing spells. We miss her and I'm glad she's resting. The woman needs to rest. Me too. Me too. I'm also glad. And me too. I also need rest. I know. And me too. I also need rest. Everybody also needs to rest. Guys, get some rest. We will soldier on as we must. And my dear friend, Sam, we did anything scary happen to you this week? Well, Emily, I paid my taxes. I paid them in full. And moments later, Duncan got off the phone with our shared accountant or tax accountant. And asked her about the specific, what would actually happen if he doesn't pay taxes? He's like, you know, I'm thinking about a tax strike. I don't like where our tax money is going in America. Yeah. And I'd like to withhold taxes and protest. And she was like, yeah, lots of my clients are doing that. Totally great. I totally support it. I was like, I just paid my taxes. Why did you say that you just paid my taxes? Obviously, you know, there's risks involved. This isn't advice to our listeners. No. But she kind of made it seem like the risks weren't as crazy as I had heard. Like, I don't think anyone has been actually put in jail for not paying taxes on like a civilian level in quite some time. I think it has happened, but it's like just a handful of times. I just would imagine, too, you'd probably have to have like never paid taxes for them to be like, OK, well, we're going to arrest you now. Yeah. So the main thing is that just like accrues fees. And like, you probably will have to pay them eventually. I think that's Duncan's thinking is like just not paying for... Pay them at a time when you like what they're going towards more. You're right. Or at least like hoping optimism. At least like holding out as long as you can, I guess. But yeah, I paid mine like a total friggin' doofus. I get this. I feel the same way. I was like, thank God, I got what a load off. And then I was like, wait, what the fuck did I just do? So yeah, it's pretty upsetting where those dollars are going. Incredibly upsetting. And but I was like, again, as soon as I paid them, I started seeing all these articles, the algorithm learned like that that's what I was thinking about. And so it was like, here's like, this is one of the biggest tax resistance years in modern history. And I was like, again, annoyed that I didn't... Cross that second line. But also felt like proud and optimistic that other people are doing it. I don't know that we'll get hard data on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I think it's time for us to be doing that. I think. Definitely. Not us, me and Sammy. Because we didn't. Really? That is on us and that's egg on our face for sure. That's it for me. Emily, what about you? Did anything scary happen to you this week? Yeah, I really haven't been hard about, am I going to talk about it? But then I thought, you know, what I have is the only thing on my mind and also, you know, people have also experienced this and it's probably helpful to feel again, not alone. Trigger warning for pet death. We had to put birdie down this week, which was the hardest and worst thing I've ever had to do. It was really surreal. I've had pets growing up. We, you know, both my dogs growing up, we put to sleep, but I was a child and not in charge. Yes. And it was very sad, but it is, you know, sorry to anybody who has not yet experienced this and will. It's a thing. Anybody who has pets like will all experience a version of this and we know it and we know that it's the case. This is my first time experiencing it in this way. And it's one of those things that you think will be really, really bad and it is so much worse. It's so much worse than I imagined it would be. And so much harder and so much, so many more layers to it than I was expecting. But it was the right thing to do for her. I'm ultimately incredibly grateful that we were able to give her a very peaceful end. I unintentionally, I already told you the same, but I unintentionally quoted Dr. Kelsen to Joel and talking about it because we found out Brady had lymphoma. She had end stage lymphoma, which an important note is that that does not show up on blood work. So the only way to find that out is to do an ultrasound, which is what we did. But I, you know, that was going to kill her like that. But we weren't, we couldn't do anything about that. Like that was going to kill Bertie and Bertie was going to die. And that was just an inevitability as it is for all of us. But not all deaths are equal. And we got to choose like a really nice death for her. And there's something really beautiful about that. I also learned you can have people come to your house and do it. I was going to ask if that was what. That's what we did. So much better because it's 11. Most pets are so scared at the vet and it just feels like a. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't, we didn't want those to be like some of her last moments, you know. Yeah, exactly. So God bless the people who do have a wonderful woman. Dr. Angie came to our home and was like, you know, as he would be just the kindest, most wonderful person. And it was so hard. And it was so sad. And yeah, I just, I love, I love my pets. I knew it would be really brutal, but I didn't understand just exactly how hard it is. And so for people I know who've gone through it or anyone listening who has gone through it, I really, my heart just really goes out to you. It's a really specific kind of grief. And it's really. It's so difficult to choose to end the life of something that you love so much, or even if you didn't make the choice, but just like to lose that. And like, you know, I also realized that in addition to like, we just really miss bird. She was, I just really miss bird. And I, and I, we have other cats who honestly are not to fucking doing it for me right now. They're not birdie. And I'm like, you're not giving me what I want. I love them, but it's, it's a complicated thing. But we're not just mourning birdie. Like we're mourning the end of a chapter of our lives, which really hit me this week of just that, that. That was like a version of our family that doesn't exist anymore. Yeah. Which is another just really wild thing. Like, like so much of our identity was like, this is our home and these are our cats. We have four cats and this is our life. And like it was so, it, everything was in like such a perfect balance and it's different now. And it was also my birthday this week. But it really, like, I don't know. I'm just like really feeling the reality of like just what it is to be alive. And, and that things are going to change and there's nothing we can do. And, and we just have to just keep going and we'll find something new and a new, I don't know. It's just like, it's a lot of feelings. I've had been having a lot of feelings this week. Yeah. Yeah. May I just, may I just miss, I just miss my bird. Um, she was really great. She was a really, really great cat. Our sweet B Roy B Roy, as you may know, of her. Um, God, she was funny. She was really funny. I don't think any living thing has ever made me laugh as hard as I had like one tooth. Oh my God. She was so perfect. And, and you know, a thing about pets is that we don't create them. We just offer our homes to them and birdie happened to be existing on this planet at the same time as us. And we got to be the ones who gave her a home and that is just the most incredible thing. Um, so I do it. I do it again and again and I will be doing this again and again for the rest of my life because I will always have pets in my life. And it's what a wild thing we just sign ourselves up for. Yeah. Yeah, it's really, really intense. I mean, we love them so much. And when you love something so much, it just creates a space for a lot of pain and grief when that person or pet, yeah, leaves this, this mortal plane. Yeah. Um, but the love makes it worth it. The love makes it worth it. It is. And it is. And it's, yeah, you can't. You have to feel all the things to feel any of the things. And unfortunately that is just how, just how it is. Um, and it's worth it. And people have really been so lovely and like really, I've been getting so surprised by the places where I'm finding support and nice messages. Like, oh, I had to fucking adjust my pet sitting account. Which was so hard. Um, and they like immediately sent us an email with this huge, like it was, I, people, I don't know, like it just, but it was so moving and they obviously are pet people and they really understand. And it's just like, so that's another thing too, is it's just, it's, you know, everyone understands grief to some degree. And, and it's like a really beautiful thing to find comfort in and provide comfort to other people. Yeah. So. Yeah, that's what's, that's what's going on with me. It's a pretty big week. That's a pretty intense week. And I love you so much. And I'm so sorry. I love you so much. Now you went through so much this week. Um, but yeah, I'm, Birdie was very lucky to have you guys as her home and we're all going to miss her. Anyone that knew her loved her. Anyone that knew her. It's very true. I'll share some photos of Birdie. She was very beautiful and very fat at one point in her life and very funny looking and very stupid and very sweet. A little brain cell bouncing around. God, she just had nothing in there, but, but goodness, just absolutely nothing. The purest little heart in the emptiest little skull. Just dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, nothing. Oh, there will never be another. Absolutely singular. Absolutely singular. Um, but you know what? I don't think I've ever felt more alive in my life. Yeah, there is something about feeling all the feelings where I'm like, holy shit, I'm, I am alive. I am alive. I am here. Human experience. You are experiencing it. I am not numb. I am here. Yeah. Uh, so what are you going to do? You know, you just got to, we got to be alive. We got to live. Yeah. We simply have to live. And I'm, I'm so sorry that there's just no good way to transition out of that into telling me about whatever we're going to talk about this week, but I am excited to be here with you and to be talking about something that's really crazy. I bet. Uh, yes, it is crazy, but this is, as I promised you, my version of a soft ball. We did. Yes. Thank you very much. Talk about staying away from anything too emotionally intense. So this week. Thank you. We are talking about Resident Evil, the 2002 version. Holy crap. 2002. Wow. We, and now this was a video game first. Yes. And then these movies. Yes. And you said 2002 version. Uh, I think, uh, there's just a lot of movies in this series. Oh, got it. Yeah. I guess I phrased that in a way. Like there were other remakes, which I don't think that there are going to be one. Yes. And that's why I was kind of interested. Yeah. I've had this movie on my list because I had never seen it before this. Um, but Zach Kregger is directing a Resident Evil movie that comes out in September that I am very excited for. Yeah. Oh, holy heck. And some people have Austin's house. Yes. Yes. He was in weapons. Abrams. I was going to say that, but I was like, there's certainly no way that's right. But I guess I was. Yeah. And it has Kali Reese in it, who is in the latest season of True Detective, who I just really loved. So I'm excited about that too. And I guess some people have seen some early screenings. Apparently it's 90 minutes long. Love that. So is this one. Zach, love that. Thank you for what you're doing for horror movies. Um, I'll, all I know about, I've never seen this news, obviously, but I have vivid memories of my middle school friends, older brother, playing this video game with his friends at sleepover. When I'd be like sleeping over at their house and in the dark, like it'd be pitch dark and they'd be playing Resident Evil. And it was so fucking scary. Yeah. Like so scary. Yeah. I don't, I don't fuck with, well, I don't really fuck with video games in general, but a scary video game. Awful is. Scarier than a scary movie to me. Yeah. Cause it's because you're the maze. Happens. It's real. It's real. I actually don't really have a lot of memories of this movie because I feel like it came out at the same around the same time as like Underworld and Silent Hill, which we've also covered. And so I think in my brain, they've, they all kind of just blended into one. And like this is. So. Me. Yes. I didn't even know that. I was, I was expecting like in Zambia. Vampires. Yeah. Right. Which, but that's. That's Underworld. Right. Took me about 15 minutes into the movie to realize that this is not Underworld. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I wasn't mad about it. We should probably do Underworld. Yeah. I'm curious about Underworld too. Kate Beckinsale. Michael Sheen. Right. Oh. Did they mean on that? Did I make that up too? I might have. I think that's, but I do think that they met on that because I think he does. I think he's plays a vampire like a lot. Yeah. Yeah. He's in it. Hey, so wow, I know so many things. You know so many things. Can you even believe? Cause I surely can't. Those of it's like when a song comes on from that you haven't heard in 20 years. And you know all the words. And it's like, oh, here's all the words in my brain. When I can't like. Think of anything that I want to think. Like recall anything to memory in a normal human conversation and then put on some song that I haven't heard in decades. And there's my brain kicking into first gear. But okay. Resident Evil was written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, our old, our old pal. He is also the director of Event Horizon and Alien versus Predator and lots of other kind of sci-fi horror movies. It is. Hell yeah. Starring Mila Jovavich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius and James Purefoy. And it's on prime streaming on prime for just another week or so. As I was like, I was like, they're going to pull it from prime because there's a new Resident Evil movie coming out. And so they're going to be like, we want to have it be rental because they'll, I think make more money that way. That's how my brain perceives are always trying to make the most money. So I was happy to see it still streaming in this moment. But if you want to watch it, better, better be quick about it. 2002. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. What a time. I got, I got, I can only picture. Well, I mean, you also have her behind you. But when I think of this movie, all I can think of is Mila Jovavich. Yes. I as a, as a kid, I said Mia Jovavich. Yeah. It seems right. But I looked it up and it is Mila Jovavich. So I was close. Okay. But not correct. Yeah, I do. I close, but not correct. I, yeah, I'm looking, I just looked up the poster because I'm like, I want to see like, I don't remember Michelle Rodriguez being in anything but Fast and Furious. It's always weird to me when she shows up in another movie because I'm like, but you don't exist in this world. You only exist in that world. Exist in the Fast and Furious universe. Like that's your, it's doesn't compute. Yeah. But I do remember it being like all the women were like really hot. Like they like looked hot and cool. Yeah. She was apparently in a movie called Girl Fight, which I haven't seen, but did ring a bell and that was before this. So she was like coming off like she was like the hot, hot new thing in town. And I think Fast and Furious was like at the same time as this. Wow. And so then since then she hasn't been anything else. Yeah. Okay, great. Cause she's frigging probably so rich. Yeah. Oh my God. And there's just simply so many movies. They've been making a movie, you know, since whenever they came out until now and beyond. Oh, I guess Fast and Furious came out before this too. It was in 2001. So. Okay. But yeah, she was probably filming them around the same time. She's an avatar. Anyway, I can stop looking into it. It's just, she, I just don't expect her to be anywhere in Fast and Furious. It's always surprising to me. Yep. I agree completely. This movie has a 36% on Run Tomatoes, 35 on Metacritic and a 6.6 on IMDB. Totally normal, even slightly above average score for IMDB. Yeah. Normal. The budget was 33 million and it made 103 million. And I think this franchise in general made lots of money. It must, the low critic score did not hamper their ability to keep making these movies. Yeah. But. I'm curious about it because I think they, I think the studios are always like a little nervous about making video game movies. But I didn't really do any research into that. So I guess we don't need to talk about it. But I feel like in general, like I feel like I don't particularly love video game movies because they feel like video games. But you have a built in audience with them. So it's like. Yeah. And I feel like there's people who, if you love video games, I feel like, like I remember hearing this about the last of us show, people being like, it feels like a like the video game and that was like a pop. It's that I was a positive. Right. Because they love the video. Well, and the and the people who are fans of the video game are going to have very strong opinions about the movie. So that's also something you're signing up for when you're going to make a video game movie is like, oh, we got to do the fans justice or we're never going to hear the end of it. So interestingly, this movie did not include any of the main characters from the video games. Milla Jovovich's character is created for the movies. So kind of a bold move on their part. Yeah. But so there was some not drama, particularly, but Milla Jovovich signed on. And then they got Michelle Rodriguez. And because of Michelle Rodriguez is like big recent success. They're hot. They rewrote a lot of it for Michelle Rodriguez to be the like bad ass. That's in like doing all the action scenes. And Milla got kind of kicked to the sidelines and became like a damsel in distress, essentially, in the script. And so then when she showed up and like read the new script that she was supposed to be shooting, she was like, what the fuck is this? Like, I'm not doing this. Like we need to rewrite it. Oh, my God. Again. And so she sat down with Paul W.S. Anderson and they like went through it page by page and she like helped write her character in a way that she felt good about that was like action oriented and like taking charge. And Michelle Rodriguez is still like doing more of the like fight scenes. But Milla also is doing fight scenes like it feels balanced. Like I don't think I would have known that. Like it didn't feel weird to me. But I had no idea about this and a lot of people probably do know this. But this is where Milla and Paul W.S. Anderson fell in love and they're married now with three kids. So my gosh. Maybe it was exactly over building that character together. They really got to see eye to eye and he listened to her and and she felt safe communicating her needs. And. Well, look at them. And yeah, they made a bunch of these movies and he's directed her in other movies as well. So they've like continued to collaborate for them. And I just, yeah, I just had no idea. And I think that's very fun and I'm happy for them. Some casting what ifs for Milla's part. It was originally going to go to Gwyneth Paltrow, which is just the most. That is really interesting. It's like one of the most wrong people you could cast in this. I'd love to see that movie, but it wouldn't feel like a shockingly different movie. It wouldn't be right at all. And then Sarah Michelle Geller was also at one point, which feels more that that checks out a little more in line with it. This movie is on Roger Ebert's most hated movies list. Love to know when something particularly. Gets under his right with Robert, but James Cameron says it's one of his great guilty pleasures. Oh my God, James, Jim. And he loves watching Michelle and it. And that's how I found out that she was an avatar because he's the trivia was like, we work together on avatar and I like watching her and president evil. Jim, I'm actually really excited to hear about this movie. Yeah. And I think it's fun. 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Terms apply on covered repairs. Oh my God. Take us there. Well, Emily, the place that we're going is raccoon city. Did you see that coming? I super did not. Cause they really I don't know if I could have ever, ever predicted that we'd be going to raccoon city. And now tell me more about raccoon city. That's not what you think. You got nothing to do with raccoons? No, I mean, there probably are raccoons there, but it's just a really big city. We, why is it called that? You know, I don't know. This is going to be like, this is like injured cold. This is just going to sit in my brain. It's like, if you didn't want it to be a thing, you should have named it something normal. Like either do or don't, you know? Yeah. And there's again, like a bunch of these movies, a bunch of these video games. So maybe somewhere there, we'll find an answer and there's no way to know until we make our way through. Go through every single one of the movies. Yeah. All of the material. Yeah. That is what we have to do. But we won't find an answer in this movie. Okay. So we begin with a big info dump, some text cards that tell us about the umbrella corporation, an evil corporation that's like in charge of everything and, you know, nothing like anything that exists in the real world. Oh, God. Completely fictional. Yeah. The umbrella corporation, it tells us has like immeasurable political and financial influence. It's the world's leading supplier of computer tech and medical products. But secretly, if you can believe it, they're also manufacturing weapons, doing genetic experimentation and creating viral weaponry. Yeah. So they're doing some nasty stuff. Mm. They got it's fictional. Nothing like this happens in the real world. Yeah. We see a lab and a scientist in like a hazmat suit, head to toe, covered, working with some vials of one has like a very neon bright blue liquid in it and one has a very neon green liquid in it. I'm like, great. Okay. Blue vials, green vials. So those are going to mean something. Yep. Yep. He's packing them up in a suitcase. And as he's like turning to, he's the only one in this lab. As he's turning to leave, he throws one of the blue vials and it crashes, like breaks and all this little like smoke is evaporating from it. Yeah. It looks like a biohazard. Does he know that he broke it? Yes. And he immediately closes like an airlock door between him. And the room. Is he not wearing like a big mask? He was and he took it off before he threw this. So I'm like, what are... Did he throw it on purpose? At the beginning, I don't think you really know. Got it. Okay. Yeah, he did. Yeah. Okay. Okay. That maybe makes it make a little... But yeah, I mean, if this is such a big biohazard, we should be wearing protective PPE. Yes. But we're seeing, even though he sealed this door, we're seeing there's ventilation in this room. It's like going up through... Carapaz plan. Going up through the vents and we reveal we're in like some sort of really big office building. We're seeing people who work there hearing like a fire alarm starting to go off. People are like, oh, it's just a fire drill. No one's really to... Panicked about it. And then we see these cages of dogs barking like they can smell something. They seem like they're there particularly for this reason to smell if this ever happens. So all the dogs start barking. Now some employees are like getting a little stressed and they're like, hey, we better... Yeah, I guess we better evacuate. And so now everyone's heading towards the exits, getting in the elevator. So one group of people makes it into the elevator. And as they're going down, the elevator stops. And one guy immediately is full panic mode, which should be to be fair. This is why we don't trap ourselves in an elevator during an emergency scenario. Yeah, you're going to want to take the stairs. You're going to want to take the stairs. I think you're going to want to probably not work wherever this is. Seems like a bad place to work. So not to fix some blame. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I think you're right though. These guys have had it coming. They hear, they're like listening, trying to... The line is dead in the elevator. They can't call for help. So they're like hearing some noise and listening like, what is that? What is that? Here the neighboring elevator whoosh by way too fast and then we see it explode at the bottom of the shaft. That would suck. So now we're all panicking in this and trying to pry the doors open. Classic between two floors. So one woman is like, I'll try to climb out. And we see as they pry open and we can see one floor, we see all the employees on that floor are dead on the ground. Everyone is dead. So I'm thinking, and this is because I just completed my emergency community response training. But yeah, I'm thinking maybe we don't want to be getting out of this elevator now. So you just always got to assess the situation based on the new information you get. Not a lot of good options I would glean here. But yeah, probably that's... Yeah, there's no winning in this situation. But she's trying to crawl out. And she can see that everyone's dead? Yeah. Oh, okay. And yeah, that's a sign that there might be some sort of gas airborne something going on. If everybody in the vicinity has seemed to suddenly dropped dead. But we're worried that this elevator is about to crash and explode. So yeah, rock in a hard place. So she's crawling out when it seems like the elevator starts to power back on and lift up. And she's like, pull me back in, pull me back in. And it's like going up, up, up, and she's getting like closer to the top. Oh no. We've seen the elevator decapitation many times. So we're expecting it. We're going, no, no, no, no, no. And then it stops just right before she gives a big few. Oh my God, thank God. And then the brakes go and it goes way faster drops. She gets decapitated all of them die. Cut to Mila Jovovich waking up naked in the shower. There apparently was a lot of nudity in the original version of this script, which I don't think was Paul W.S. Anderson. I think there was a script before he came on. But I read in the trivia that it was like, she wakes up naked. You don't see, you do see, you do see a nip, but it's not gratuitous. But there was a version of this script. Well, that's his future wife. So let's be respectful. Where she was supposed to like have a fight scene completely naked here. And I think, yeah, they were like, yeah, we're not. We're not going to be doing that. So God rid now, but she wakes up. Someone was so pissed. Oh man, I really wanted it. Naked fight scenes are pretty fun. But there's a time and a place. You got to earn it. Yeah. There's there's a leap. Pace naked fight scene. Oh God, God, I love it. And then there's the Jennifer Lawrence naked fight scene. Incredible. So, you know, I'm not against the naked fight scene. 100 percent of the time nobody here is against the naked fight scene. Just to be clear, let's be reasonable. So she wakes up. She looks very disoriented and shower running showers. I think so. I think she turns it off. Okay. So she was like mid shower and seems to have passed out and is now coming to the next room. She grabs a robe, goes out into this like it's this is like a very nice home. It's like a very grand bedroom. And there's a note on the dresser that says today all your dreams come true. And she's looking puzzled by this. She grabs the pen next to it and writes the same message, I think, to see if it's her handwriting, which I thought was fun. It's not. It doesn't match hers. This all feels like very video gamey, you know, like here's a clue and here's a clue. Do you want to write your write the message yourself? I like have literally never played a video game in my life, but I get the gist. Yes. She opens some of the dresser drawers and one of the drawers is filled with like some high tech looking weapons, has like a lock code lock thing and just has like a bunch of crazy guns in it. She's shocked by this. Clearly has no idea where she is. She turns and on the bed laid out is an outfit. And so she changes into her, I think, I think pretty iconic outfit. It's like a red mini dress that has this asymmetrical hem with like, I think like little shorts or a mini skirt underneath it and these big old combat boot things. She looks she looks great. She's very badass. And she's continuing her investigation of the room. What the hell is going on? She finds a wedding photo of her and a man. So she's like, OK, I'm married to this man, I guess. I would really hate to find myself in this situation. Yeah, it'd be really bad. It'd be really bad. I wrote this is some June's journey shit. The only video game I play. She goes outside and we see that this is like a mansion. And she's calling out hello is anybody there? Nobody seems to respond. And she's going back inside when a man like pops out of nowhere and like tries to pull her back and is like, stay away from the window, stay away from the doors. Is it the same man from the wedding photo? No. And she's understandably like, get the fuck away from you. The fuck are you touch me? But before they can get to the bottom of who each other are through the windows comes a bunch of like gas mask wearing soldiers, you know, classic ropes flying in. Bust in through the windows and they grab Mila. Her name is Alice in this. I don't think they ever say that. But yeah, you can call her Mila. It's in the it's in the credits. So I guess that's her name. But they grab her and they grab the other guy whose name is we learn is Matt. And Matt is saying like, I work for the raccoon raccoon PD. I'm a raccoon city government employee. Oh, it's so funny. They put him in cuffs, but not her. And they're like, we'll check that we don't have the like whatever we need right now to confirm that. So we'll just take you with us. And they like kind of corner Mila. They're not cuffing her. And one of the soldiers takes off his mask and like looks at her and he's like, I need your report soldier. Give me the debrief. And she's like, what? And he's like, the debrief. Give me your report. She says she has no idea what he's talking about. He said something like, oh, the gas must have. You must have your like memory loss is one of the symptoms of the nerve gas. So it'll probably come back pretty soon. Cool. Cool. Cool. Fingers crossed. Yeah. Oh, that'll probably is probably come back. They're taking both of them with them. And this guy, his name is one. Oh, OK. And one of the other soldiers takes off her mask and it's Michelle Rodriguez. Her name is Rain. They're looking at each other like we're we'll take them both down there. And one says, prepare for entry to the hive. And it's like heavy metal music is playing. And I hate to inform you that Marilyn Manson did the score for this movie. Well, it was 2000 and it really is like the right choice for the time. It's so funny that the I just always get such a kick out of these like insane metal scores and these types of movies were just like. So aggressive. So they go into this like hidden little chamber thing that drops down subterranean below this mansion and it's a train station. They'll get on this train. And as they're in one of the train cars, there's like a door that's jammed and they pry it open and outfalls. The man we recognize from the photo, her husband, his name is Spence. He's unconscious. But as he's as he like topples out of the compartment he was in Alice has this flash back of like, I don't know their wedding day or something. So she's just like, oh, my husband. He wakes up and he also can't remember anything. So they're again like the nerve gas. It'll come back eventually, but it's hard to say how fast. Probably whatever. Probably whatever serves the narrative best. I think we can just assume it'll come back at a pretty crucial time. I think that's fair to say. So they the train has been traveling this whole time and they arrive at their destination. Alice says to one, you need to like tell me what the hell is going on right now. Tell me where we are. What's happening? We're in Raccoon City. Of course. Obviously in Raccoon City. You can't forget that. He tells her you and I both work for the Umbrella Corporation. The mansion is a secret emergency entrance to the hive. The hive is one of the Umbrella Corporation's like genetic testing facilities. They're doing like pretty top secret stuff in there. And you are both her and Spence are security operatives that were stationed there to like protect the entrance basically. He tells them that their marriage is a sham that they're just they just work there. They just work there. Good to know. Which is funny. Well, your marriage is a sham. So don't trust too much about that guy. Your marriage is a sham. And he turns to one of the other soldiers. There's a bunch of these soldiers. A lot of them are bodies to be killed later. So we don't need to really know all of them. But we got the whole crew. We got the computer guy. We got the medic. We got the muscle. There's all the the usual crew that we're used to. So they call up computer guy. And they're like, show her the show her the 3D render of the hive. Show her the really sick 2002 animation of what of where we are. And so we see this animation that shows Raccoon City. A very populous city. And the mansion is just outside of it. And it follows like the train, train path down to the hive, which looks like a beehive. It's like a underground, I don't know, 20 story building. It tells her that 500 scientists and technicians work there, live there full time on a top secret project. And something has happened and we need to investigate and figure out what went on down there. Matt asks, was it attacked? And one says it's a bit more complicated than that. Building mystery. What the hell is going on? What the heck? So this 3D graphic also shows us their heat signatures. They are at the top of the hive now and they need to get to the bottom, of course. So it's going to be going through levels. We're going to have to get through some levels. So they're making their way down. They're taking the stairs. Computer guy says the red queen is locked on to us. She knows we're here. And Mila asks, what's the red queen? What are you talking about? Computer guy tells us she's just the most state of the art artificial intelligence. She's the computer that runs this facility. And whatever yesterday or whenever it was, she locked down the facility and killed everybody in here. So I think they are trying to erase the red queen, power down the artificial intelligence, because they think that it's gone rogue. So we're in a corridor in this facility and Spence and Alice have a moment where he gives her his jacket. He's like, it's cool. We're not really married. Our marriage is a sham. You don't need to give me your jacket. Probably. I fucking hate you, actually. But just then she has a flashback of them fucking. Oh, it doesn't seem so shammy to me. And then she asks him if he remembers anything from before the train. And he's like, no, I don't remember anything at all. What about you? And she's like, yeah, yeah, no. I also mean either. Me neither. I also don't remember anything. We see one of the labs has been filled with water. Like a fire sprinkler had been going off while the doors were sealed and it just completely flooded it. And so all the scientists in there drowned and one of them like jumpscare. There's a lot of jump scares in this movie, but one of them like floats towards the glass window and she's dead, obviously. But it's a frightens everybody and we're like, oh shit, OK, well, we better. We better keep moving. Bad way to go. Yeah. So as they all keep making their way down, we see that drowned woman open her eyes. Blood red eyes. She has reanimated. Zombie. None of them notice. So they make it to the bottom pretty quick. So. Oh, what the fuck down there. And I guess our levels are going to be more about making it back up. Eventually. Sure. Because that's how you get out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So they are following the computer guys map. He's got like the map of the whole facility and what each room is. So they're like following his lead as they're trying to get to like the computer main frame, probably seems like it seems like something they would do. And they have to go through this large room that's labeled dining hall B. And when they get in there, it's filled with all these human sized like metal chambers with, you know, all sorts of plugs and wires attached to all of them like iron maidens kind of, but with plugs. Yeah. Like, yeah, like that. And everyone's really confused. Really confused. Like what is this? It's supposed to be the dining hall. Does everyone, the only people who don't have their memories are Mila and Stash. Stash. Stash. Spence. Spence is his name. I think his name is Stash actually. I think so. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Okay. So everybody else knows, but they, they're not scientists. So they've never been in this lab. Yes, exactly. And it's everything in the lab is classified. And so they like also don't have like prior knowledge of what has been going on down here. Their muscle, their muscle like sent here to shut down. God, they're probably going to learn some things along the way. I think they're probably going to learn some things along the way. Perhaps about their employer. They might not like it. And I think one of them even says right here, it seems like the umbrella company maybe has some secrets. Has maybe they're hiding some secrets. Whoa. Maybe. In this top secret building where people work and live 24 seven. Could be a place of secrets. Mila takes a peek in one of these little iron maidens and sees some nasty like tubes with blood flowing through them and like tissue looks like maybe some brain stuff. Yeah. It's just like, yeah, tissue, body parts that don't really add up to like a body. And why do we call these tissues? I guess because I have no idea. Just someone also sometimes when I don't feel like looking something up, I just ask it here. Does anyone know why we cry tears? Right. What's the what is that about? What do they do? What's the purpose? What's the biological slash potentially like evolutionary necessity of tears when you're sad? Been thinking about a lot this week. And I'm just curious as to why it happens. Yeah. I thought you brought up a good point about it being also a way to like signify to others how you're feeling. Yeah. That was Joel's point. That was Joel's point. I also thought it was smart. I won't take credit for it. Because there is probably something to that like a way to visually show others that you're in distress as like some evolutionary things. It's gotta be something. And why your eyes? You know, well, tears out your eyes. I feel like when you're like really crying, it's just coming out everywhere. That's true. Everything does come out everywhere. That is true. And all that everything out of everywhere. But honestly, when you're really when you're not just crying, but when you're like deeply in distress and sadness, everything kind of does come out everywhere. That's true. I mean, there's we've seen in many. Your whole body gets so fucked. We've seen in many horror movies as well. The pee in the pants and I guess we don't see as often the pooping, but it happens. But we know it happens. Um, so yeah, I think there is like a purge, a purging, a purge happening. Yeah. And then you're and then your your tear ducts just like stay so like swollen. You know, they just like stay so ready. It's just it's just how come anybody know? I remember seeing one of my friends once that had had cried so hard for so long and her eyes were swollen like just look like little tiny little sausages like both of her island. It's so wild. Oh, he's so sad. But it is. It's really crazy. It has a very physical impact. Oh my God. Anyway, experts weigh in. I won't be Googling. Yeah. Um, so, okay, we need to we're moving through past the dining room dining hall and it's kind of like, all right, well, guess we'll just keep continuing on our objective. This is pretty weird. Yeah. We arrive at this corridor. That's like the last little passageway to get to the computer mainframe. Computer guy sits down at the little little computer table and is clacking away at the keys, typing in the codes, trying to lower the Red Queen's defenses so that they can make it in there. And boy is she fighting hard this. Oh, what a bitch. Red Queen. But he does power them down. And then the the entrance to the corridor opens. I wonder if some other entrances open. That's good thinking. Uh, one, the man named one. The man named one. Starts cautiously entering the corridor. Gun drawn. All these lights turned on along the corridor. This behind me is the corridor. Freaky. It is freaky. It's kind of Mission impossibly. Yeah. You've seen this type of corridor in. Yeah, I've seen this kind of vibe. In stuff. It's like mirrored walls with fluorescent lighting type of thing. And he's slowly moving to the other end. Three more of the soldiers are coming with him. They grab this like a duffel bag with whatever explosive device they're going to use to like send an electrical charge through the main frame that'll take out the Red Queen. Wow. They've grabbed that there. Four of them are in this corridor. And as one kind of gets to the other end of the corridor where that door is open to the main frame, some sort of something's triggered. There's like a little trap in there. And both doors close. So the four of them are stuck in here. Everybody's immediately freaking out with good reason. One is one of the four. One is one of the four. And. And everybody else we know is not. Right. The medic. The medic is in there. That's tough. Which is tough. But the other two I don't think we. Michelle Rodriguez into Peter Guy. Yeah, they're not in there. Okay. They're at the at the computer, the like switchboard, whatever. And Mila is yelling at computer guy like what's what's happening? Turn it off. Shut it down. He's like, I'm trying. You know, he's clacking. He's clacking. Type it so fast. Oh my God. He's got it over. Oh my God. Over. I can only type so fast. I can only type so fast. And this little laser beam appears at the front of the corridor and starts like moving towards them like it's gonna slice through them. And it happens pretty well. The first one happens kind of quick, but they all realize mostly all realize pretty quickly. And so three of them drop to the floor below it. Except for the medic who like doesn't figure out what she doesn't know what's happening. So she just turns and looks and it just goes. She, the doctor was a woman. Can you believe it? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We gotta go back to the beginning. So, but they don't notice really that she has been sliced. It was at about throat level for her. Oh, so not a full hamburger. Not a full hamburger. But classic decapitation. It's a decapitation, but it's also the classic like the heads just staying on for a little bit. Just a clean little. And it seems like it did nothing happen at all. Like we just see one little drop of blood on her neck and a little line starting to form. But one of the other guys, his hand was up too high and so his hand is like sliced in half. And so they're all calling to her like medic, medic, get over here, medic. And then that's when they turn and see her head slide off her body. And then pretty immediately another laser is loads up again, coming from moving from the front to the back. They all like gear up, trying to maneuver their way around wherever this laser is going to come. It starts really low. And one of the guy closest to it goes to jump over it. And as he jumps, it raises high. So he gets, I think, kind of a hot dog style, but hot dog prone. Almost like he almost gets like fillet. Yeah, I'd call that more of a fillet. Yeah, like a brand, you know, yeah. He got butterfly. Yes. Ooh, that sounds really bad. Yeah. So now it's high and I think kills the other guy as well. He tries to go low. I don't know. I think it decapitates him too. I can't totally remember. And then one is the last one left and he like lifts himself up and is like parallel to the to the ceiling like holds himself as close to the ceiling as he can. And so it can't reach him. So he dodges it. He drops down. We're all screaming. What the computer guy fucking hurry up. You need to get the red queen. Things are really bad in here. He's like, I'm so close. I've almost got it. I just need to type a few more things. And one last laser is coming. One, the man is like does like kind of the Henry Cavill admission impossible like get loading his fists. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll help you. And the laser is coming. It's like mid-mid level. He's deciding what to do when it changes into a crosshatch pattern. That's just like dense checkers from floor to ceiling wall to wall. And he just kind of goes, oh fuck and gets sliced into little cubes. And just one second later, computer guy turns it off, but it is too late and they have all died. And one was seeming like kind of the main guy. He has like main soldier guy energy. So I was surprised. My jaw dropped in this scene. Wow. And the effects are, I love these kinds of effects that are just the early tooth that this is like cube does this. I love it. It's just like looks pretty bad, but also is just fun. You know, we're just having fun. Yeah. Yeah. We're doing what we can. We're doing the most of what we have. Computer guy is really fucked up by this. Obviously riddled with guilt. Yeah. I mean, it's not like, well, you know, you could only work as fast as you could work. You see the best you can. But that is tough. There's, yeah, like a moment of silence. It's also, I think just him and Mila and maybe Matt in the like computer room. I think the other soldiers are still in the dining hall, like guarding the entrance. So they don't know what has happened. So they're not going to have bad news to deliver. Yeah. They're not going to like that. But computer guys, like we still have to go in there. So now we have to. They really didn't want us in there. Yeah. And he says he starts, he grabs the bag. He has to like grab it from bag didn't get sliced, I guess, but he grabs the duffel in the hallway and Mila kind of reluctantly joins him. Oh, no, I think it's Spence that's also with them and Spence is like, I really don't want to go in there, but he also reluctantly joins. It doesn't really matter who cares. They all go in. They're getting ready to load up this bomb thing that's going to deliver some sort of electrical blast to the Red Queen's main frame. And just then a hologram appears, a red hologram of a little British girl. She's saying, please get out, get out. You can't, you can't be in here. You must get out. And computer guy is saying, don't listen to her. It's the Red Queen. It's, it's her hologram that she's going to try to like get in your head and play mind games. You can't listen to her. We have to do what we have to do. And little British hologram girl gets kind of serious. And she says, you're all going to die down here. And just then he does, does what he has to do, explodes the main frame, she disappears. Wow. Great, great. Final message to hear. No. So with this explosion cut, the power goes down in the whole, the whole hive. And with that, all the doors open. Yeah. She's not going to be great. So because of this, Michelle Rodriguez, also known as rain, in, she's so not a rain. She's not right. She's Michelle Rodriguez. She's Michelle Rodriguez or she's, whatever her name is in Fast and Furious. Yeah. Letty. Letty. She's a Letty. She's a Letty. Like I don't, I don't, I would not be like, oh, Michelle. My friend, Michelle. This is my friend, Michelle. I'd say this is my friend, Michelle Rodriguez. This is my friend, Michelle Rodriguez from Fast and Furious is what I would say. It's what you, it's, that's her full name. Exactly. So Michelle Rodriguez finds a, what she thinks is a survivor. Now that the doors are open, someone in a lab coat is stumbling out and she's like, we got someone survived. We got to help them. She goes and rushes to the aid of this person. We see pretty quickly that it's definitely a zombie. Michelle Rodriguez is like, is, is hold, holding her like trying to prop her up because she's slumped over and immediately this woman bites Michelle Rodriguez right on the hand. We're breaking, we're breaking skin. We know that that's not going to be good. Michelle Rodriguez is calling out to one of the other soldiers. She bit me. This girl is this woman's crazy. Help me, help me. Cause the woman is continuing to attack her. She's a zombie and she's on top of her and trying to eat her. The other soldier guy, his name is JD. JD comes in and is like, ma'am, ma'am. Miss, let's be reasonable here. Pulls her off, kind of shoves her back a bit and this zombie woman continues slowly. They're very slow moving zombies. Slowly just like charging back a slow charge, the slow charge back at them. And he's giving her warnings. JD is saying, stop right there, stop right there. This is your last warning. He's got his gun drawn. He's like, he's like, I'm going to shoot. I'm going to shoot. You can't freaking talk to this lady. He's not being reasonable. Shoots her in the leg. She doesn't, doesn't bother her at all. Shoots her in the other leg. Doesn't bother her at all. Yeah, that's a bad sign. Michelle Rodriguez grabs her machine gun and just unloads on this woman. Shoots her a whole bunch of times. That does the trick. She falls down and just as like, I think the rest of the group comes back from the main frame room. So we're all like re-gathering and something. They're like, what's the gunshots? Everyone's like, what's happening? They're like, oh, this lady, she was crazed. She bit me. We shot her and she didn't react. We shot her and then they look and her body is gone. She's not there anymore. They're like, that's not possible. Matt. Now who's Matt? Matt is the guy from the opening who was like in the mansion. Oh, they're arresting. Yes. So is he handcuffed? He's still in handcuffs. Yes. And I'll be honest, I don't, there is a point at which he's not in handcuffs anymore. And I do remember him like seeing the keys. I don't remember him actually getting out of the handcuffs. So, but he is still in handcuffs for this scene. Okay. And he looks at the blood splatter on the ground and it's coagulated and he says, this blood is coagulated. That's impossible. And they say why. Do we know what Matt's deal is? No. Are we about to find out? He's a little like, shifty eyed. We've seen like shots of him like kind of glancing around. Maybe kind of an Austin Abrams kind of vibe. It kind of an Austin Abrams vibe. Yeah, that'd be fun. He said, he tells them that it's impossible because your blood only coagulates after you die. So if you were bleeding from a gunshot wound in your leg, it would not have been coagulated. So we're putting two and two together here. Then we're here in zombie moans and groans and shuffling. Now that all these doors are opened, they're all headed towards the noise that everyone's making in this room. And so pretty quickly, they are completely surrounded by zombies. I didn't really write down any of the details of the zombie attacks, which you'd think is kind of maybe what we'd want to lean into for the purposes of this podcast, the nastiness of it. But it really all blurs together and feels like a video game of just like nonstop, like, I'll describe some of it. Zombie attack, zombie kill. Shoot him. Zombie attack, zombie kill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice points. There is one zombie that has like in the long walk, like the broken ankle, like it's broken full 90 degrees. And so he's like walking on his like side of his foot and that's really nasty. And he's dragging a big axe. Where'd he get that? I don't know. I guess. I guess he just found it. But yeah, it that honestly does feel like too much of. A like brain, a working brain to like even to know to get an axe. Yeah, unless he like died with the axe in his hand. He's the axe guy, which I maybe he's the axe guy. Maybe he's trying to break down the door or something. Yeah, let's just back story. Look, I got to know more about this axe guy. Is yeah, that he's using tools and I feel like zombies don't use tools. Yeah, I also feel that way. So anyways, this movie is ridiculous. I hope they get I hope they answer that more in the future. So get it right. Okay, get it right. So they're surrounded. They are attacked. Shooting, shooting points points. Alice hits her head and has another flashback in this moment. And we see her in like a cemetery talking to a woman who we don't recognize. And Alice is telling this woman, I can help you get the virus. I have access to security codes, but there will be a price. That's all we see. And Alice is like, what the hell? What is what it on? What's this? What did I do? Oh, this is all pretty chaotic. I don't they get split up. Not sure exactly who's where, but I think they're trying to is there I think still in dining hall B and so they're trying to get to like the next room over and most of the rooms have like a ceiling door between them. So they're like, come this way, like we just got to get to the other side of this door. This is JD leading the charge and he opens the door and it is even more zombies in there. Oh, darn. Like tumble out basically on top of JD and JD gets eaten alive real quick. And then yeah, I don't really remember the mechanics of like how they get out of this one. I think they close that they like eventually close that door and get most of those guys back in. There's tons of them. You got we there's 500 people working in this facility. So we know that there's probably 500 zombies that we're going to have to deal with. So but somehow they're able to kind of get back to safety. Okay. And they are separated for the most part. So the next scene we see is the empty dog cages that we saw in the early. It's going to be zombie dogs. I know I'm sorry. But they're actually pretty funny. I think. Okay, cool. And in the trivia, I heard that they were really hard to work with because they kept wanting because I guess they costumed them in like meat. And so all the dogs just like were trying to eat the meat off of each other, obviously. What kind of dogs are they? They're like German Shepherds. They're Rottweilers. They're Rottweilers. Okay. And so we see all those empty cages and yeah, us the audience are like, oh, zombie dogs. Mia Milo Jovovich, I see me defaulting to my former pronunciation. She doesn't know that. So she's exploring, getting in there. What's this lab area? And then we see one zombie dog turn the corner. And she freezes and then runs. I had Wes's voice in my mind of like, don't turn and run. Yeah. But also she, there was like a little safe room right there. So it does seem like the right call. I mean, it's a zombie. So did the same rules apply? True. True. Yeah. We're dealing with a lot of unknowns here. Yeah. So she makes it to the lab. She seals herself in there. Is the zombie dog fast? Yes. Oh, bummer. Which is a good point. What's going on there? Yeah. Why is that one fast? Why is that one fast? Because dogs are faster than humans. Are dogs faster than humans? They must be. On average, probably. Yeah. I would think so. So this is the relative. We're going to find out as we got to go race some dogs. I mean, the people do that and they shouldn't, obviously. Oh, I meant like we compete with the dogs. It's not the dogs racing each other. I meant in humane conditions. You meant best of three being a dog. Side by side. Exactly. Playing fair. Yeah. Start line, finish line. Exactly. You get there first. Exactly. Winner takes all for the whole species. Yep. Everyone, everyone goes home after and gets nice. Has a nice night. Yeah. So she seals herself in the lab and turns around and is immediately attacked by a scientist that was in there, a zombie scientist. And her instincts as a security officer start coming back and she like jumps and kicks him in the head and kicks him dead with one kick. And she has this look of surprise at her own skills. And she's like remembering like, oh right. Oh my God, I'm a troll. I'm trained. Holy shit. I'm trained for this and it's coming back to her. And so she realizes she, yeah, has these abilities. So she's like, okay, I can go out and handle this one dog, I think. And she opens the door and kind of moves out of the way so that the dog runs into the room. She seals the dog into the lab. She's like, great. And just then all the rest of the dogs arrive. There's like 10 of them. Hmm. And they're all growl and atter all covered in real edible meat. And why are they covered in meat? I think it's supposed to give the illusion of they don't have skin anymore, like that they're just muscle now. They are meat. They are the meat. Got it. But it looks really silly and apparently was a bad filming decision. But so there's, she has no choice now, but to fight all these dogs. So she, and she has a gun. And so she just starts shooting. She's killing these dogs. And then she runs out of bullets and she has, I remember this shot somehow, must have been in a trailer somewhere where she like matrix style like runs along the wall. It's like, I remember that too. I remember that too. And Roundhouse kicks this dog to death. Okay. Love a signature move. She's like, I can kick, I can kick something in the head. Yep. And that's my move. And she does. Yep. Kind of like Rebecca Ferguson's like thigh around the neck. Yes. I was thinking of Rebecca Ferguson a bit. So we cut to Matt has, he's out of the cuffs somehow. And in the, in the commotion, he was able to free himself and sneak away. And he's in the more like corporate officey part where there's desks and he's looking for something. He's definitely has like a, like a purpose here. And he goes to a desk and finds a key card for a woman named Lisa. And we recognize her as the woman in the flashback that Alice was having. And we see Zombie Lisa coming up behind Matt pretty quietly. But he turns just in time. And you can see there's like a motion there. And he's like, he's like, Lisa and we're like, no, she's looking less zombie ish than the rest, but we know she's still a zombie and she does lunge at him and attack him. And he's fighting her off pretty good. But it looks like she's getting the better of him and just looking for something. Just when it looks like it's about to turn, Alice comes in and kills her and also recognizes her as, oh, that's the lady from my whatever I did. He asks Matt, she asks Matt who she was. He says it was my sister. Aw. And we were planning to like be whistleblowers, essentially. We were trying to get documents out of here to show what the Umbrella Corporation was doing. We want to bring it down. It says like she had a contact that was supposed to help her, but maybe the contact like turned on her and maybe that's why all of this happened. Maybe who could possibly? Oh, gosh. Who would do such a thing? That's true. I sure hope somebody remembers it. So they reunite with the main group. At some point in here also, the computer guy does break the news that everybody else is dead and they're upset, obviously, but there's a lot going on. So the moment passes pretty quickly. They're like back at the hallway room. I think they're just trying to like find any way out and all the bodies are gone from the hallway. So their numbers are only growing. Yeah. At some point we do get there. They have like one hour to get out. I think Michelle Rodriguez delivers this piece of news that the fail safe like backup plan is if we're not all out of here by a certain time that they are just going to seal it off and like destroy like we'll die in here. Why wouldn't they just do that and not send people in there? Yeah, I don't know. All right. But yeah, that the main priority is containing the incident. They can't figure out how the fuck to get out. How are we going to get out of here? There's zombies at like all of the places that we would need to be able to move up. And Alice says, I know what we're going to do. We're turning the Red Queen back on like she'll know how to help us and everyone's like that's a bad idea. But Alice is dead set on it. She's like, this is our only chance. We're going to die down here anyways. So like what else do you suggest? And eventually they're all like, yeah, okay, fine. Turn her back on. We get our little British girl voice again. She says, I did warn you, didn't I? She's a little sassy, but she's telling them about the T virus, which is what the released Blue Vile was. It started as a medical breakthrough where they were able to regenerate human tissue, but it ended up also being able to reanimate the death, which has highly profitable military applications. And so they were like the umbrella corporation, I believe, was trying to sell it, where I think the Red Queen like is like, I couldn't allow that to leave the facility. So I think the Red Queen did go rogue in a way to protect humanity. She did kill a lot of people. She did, but for a greater good. Right. The greater good. The greater good. Yeah, it's just muddy for sure. But I think she was trying to. She's doing her best. She prevent. You know, you do your best with what you got. You do your best with what you got, even if you're AI. She tells them that, yeah, she did what she had to do. And she says, I also can't allow you guys to leave because some of you have been bitten and now you're infected too. So, uh-oh. But they do somehow kind of strong arm her into telling them, like how to get up to the top, at least. I don't really, I don't really understand the back and forth here entirely, but they find that there are utility tunnels that are not on the map. And so they're able to crawl into, you know, like kind of pipes, pipe crawl spaces. Oh, they're pretty big. They're not crawl spaces, but they are, you know, just rooms filled with pipes. So they go into there and there are some zombies in there. And at first they get attacked and JD is one of the zombies and Michelle Rodriguez. Has a moment of hesitation because it's JD and she's like JD, my old buddy. And this dude had to fuck with her sister. So yeah. And this guy bites her right on the neck. I, yeah, well, she has already been bitten. 10. So what's one more? She does kill him after that. And it's a non-fatal neck. Well, I mean, it's gonna be fatal, but not immediately fatal. Not like ripping out the throat or anything. And they're able to climb on top of the pipes to be able to like be above the zombies. So their pipes are high enough and like elevated. Do they all know that she's been bitten? Yes. Okay. And I think somebody else has been bitten too. I can't remember, but like there's a couple of bitten people and yeah, it's like it's seems like they're not taking that seriously enough. Because now we're in some small spaces together. Right. Yeah. So they're all able to get up onto the pipes except for computer guy. Too dorky. He's too dorky. He couldn't figure it out. Couldn't do it. Couldn't figure it out. He can only, he can only figure out computers. So he gets kind of marooned on a different pipe that doesn't go anywhere. So he's just stranded. They're like going to come back for him or they seem like they want to try and he tells them no. He shows that he has a gun and he's like, just leave me. I have one bullet left. That's all I need implying that he's going to take his own life. You're still gonna become a zombie. Well, we do know that if the it's like regular zombie rules that if the brain dies that it's not, I think I might be wrong about that. But I think, Okay. Your best bet would be shooting yourself in the in the brain to try to prevent the zombie nis from happening. The T virus from getting you. But yeah, I'm not positive and he might. So he loads his one bullet up as they're like crying like, oh computer guy, we're going to miss you. But they continue on and he's all the zombies are like clawing up at him, getting a little closer. Child is like figuring out how to get closer and closer to him. He's got his one bullet. He's holding it up to his temple. We cut to the rest of them in a little crawl space further away and we hear the gunshot. They all like cringe like, oh man, computer guy. Cut back to computer guy and he's just killed one of the zombies. And he's like, hey, you're not, you're gonna have to work for your dinner or whatever. This is really wild choice. It's really crazy to me. Like it's gonna be so much worse for you, my dude. This is gonna be a lot worse. So you got, you just signed yourself up to be slowly eaten to death by zombies. Yeah. Hate that for you. Hate that for him. He's still stranded there as they continue on and we see a glimpse in another part of the facility of, oh, because something that happened when the power went off also is that all those little iron maiden chambers became unlocked too and we do see one of them is open and we had previously looked a little bit inside them. It looked like brains and bloody tubes. And we now get a glimpse of a full monster looking creature crawling around that kind of looks like the quiet place monsters. It has really big hands and claws and kind of a crawly small body. Oh, big hands, big claws, crawly small body. Crawly small body. Yep. And skinless and covered in meat. Covered in meat. Just dripping in bloody meat. Alice has another flashback. She's remembering, she must have been in the lab at some point because she remembers blue vial and green vial and blue is the virus and green is the antivirus. So there is a cure and Michelle Rodriguez, she tells the group that she's like, there's a cure, there's a cure. Michelle Rodriguez, who's looking like absolute shit, she's been bitten twice. She's losing some blood. She's not doing great. And so she's like, I was starting to get worried. Quip, making quips, one of the liners. She's never not going to be sassy. And just then, Spence has a flashback. I think we're in the lab. So the lab from the beginning that we saw now, this has multiple labs in this facility, but this is the one from the beginning. And now Spence has a flashback and we see that he is the one that released the virus in the first place. Tough to be having these flashbacks. But he kind of, with this flashback, I guess like remembers that he's a bad guy too and immediately goes into like drawing his gun and aiming it. Oh yeah. I'm a piece of shit. Yeah, that's right. Oh yeah, I don't like that about me. He pulls a gun on all of them and he is still trying to kind of convince Alice to come with him. He's like, we're going to be so rich. I have the case of the virus and the antivirus back in the train. I almost made it out. This was going to be our big break. He's the one that wrote today, all your dreams come true. But Alice does not like this and they all see in like the lab behind him. One of the lab texts or something was in there and is now a zombie and slowly crawling towards him. So they're all watching like as he's giving his little evil speech, they're like, well, you're about to find out. Fuck around and find out you're about to. And so he gets bitten but then kills the zombie. He's like bitten on the leg by a zombie, kills the zombie and quickly like runs out of the lab, seals them in there and just runs to the train because there's antivirus in there. And so he's like, I can just inject myself with the antivirus. No big deal. No big deal. They somehow for narrative purposes, I presume have like a security camera following him. So we're able to see everything he does. They're able to see everything he does after he leaves them locked in a room. And he makes it to the train. He gets the suitcase out. He pulls out the antivirus. He starts like preparing to inject it into himself when he hears some metal clanging and something big moving around. He looks and is immediately attacked by Big Hand Carly Body Guy. Yeah, Big Hand, Big Claw, Smallish Carly Body. It's just basically like torn apart. Looks really bad. Big Hand's Big Claw. Yeah. Oh, yeah. These creatures are called the Lickers. They have also really, really long tongues, really gross. Tongues aren't always out, but they come out sometimes. You got to be careful of the Lickers at Raccoon City. Let's talk for the Lickers at Raccoon City. Really, really nasty. They're able to still talk to the Red Queen through the comm system or something in this room and they're trying to plead with her to open the door for them. And again, she's like, well, I can't let you out because you're infected. And they're like, but the antivirus is out there. And she's like, well, that's not a guarantee. It's not like 100% effective all the time. This lady's been bitten a couple of times now. And so I'll only let you out if you kill her first. Kill her in here and then I'll let you out. And props to Michelle Rodriguez. She's like, I think you guys should do it. I think you should kill me. But they don't want to, obviously. Alice is doing the like, oh, why God, why? She has an axe in hand. Michelle Rodriguez is saying, do it. Just fucking do it. She's like, God, she's raising it. She's psyching herself up for something. And she brings the axe down onto the comms panel so that it cuts off the red queen. So she can't communicate with them anymore. And they're still stuck in this room though. Until computer guy comes back and saves them. He somehow got out of there. Oh, well, that's great news. Good for him. Wow. Thank God. Really did it for him. Really didn't think that that was going to go his way. So he's able to obviously clickity-clack away and override and open that door. They run to the train. They pass Spence's body, which is starting to reanimate, but he's really fucked up so he can barely crawl. They get on the train. It's going back up to the mansion. And they inject rain. She's just on the friggin' brink though. And she kind of looks like she dies. And then comes back. She's still alive, not dead yet. And there's kind of, I think, a few too many ups and downs with this. Like, is she dead or not? I mean, is she dead? Is zombie dead? Is she dead? Is she dead? Does she come back? Does she, is that a zombie? Or is she just surviving? So a lot of, it's a roller coaster with her. Then we got a liquor on the train. Oh yeah, we got a liquor on the train. It attacks. It's tongues flying all around the room. Slap and people and stuff. It's claws mat, which is bad. Because even a scratch is enough for infection. Red Queen told us that. I forgot to say. Kills computer guy. So that's a bummer. Well, you know, thank you for the plot device, my guy. Big crazy fight. I didn't really remember anything except for, there's a point where Alice nails his tongue down. Ew. And they drop out the floor of the train below it. So it's like hanging from its tongue, being dragged under the train for a while, and then it like explodes. Yeah. So great. Great. Do we have more antivirus? Yes. Yeah, we've got. Is it just Alice and Matt now? It's now just Alice and Matt. They make it to the top. They've got their suitcase. They are both like crying. They've obviously this she's looks on the verge of collapsing. She's just so traumatic. And he's like comforting her. And she's like, oh my God, we got to get you the antivirus. Of course, they start gearing it up. And then they are ambushed by people in hazmat suits that grab them and pull them apart. She's like she's calling out Matt Matt. His wound, his his scratches on his shoulder. It's starting to like mutate. There's like hairs growing out of it and stuff. Something nasty is happening. He's pulled off out of sight, screaming. She's pulled in a different direction. And we're hearing this doctor's voice. I think this doctor is a character in the video games. And he's saying we need to reopen the hive and find out what went on down there. So we're just hearing some bad news. I think she's like injected with some sort of anesthesia. Yeah, sedative. She's losing consciousness. And we see as she's passing out like the doctor's face and it's Jason Isaacs. Sure. Apparently him and Paul W.S. Anderson are just like best friends. So you just did it for funsies. Yeah, I love that. And he was planning to come back for the later ones, but I guess schedule wise didn't work out. So I don't think he's actually in Harry Potter. Never again. Yeah. Yeah, Harry Potter. That took up a lot of his time, I think probably. Taking up some time for sure. So fade to black, come back up in a big fluorescent lighting room, medical room slash prison room. It has a two-way mirror, one-way two-way mirror. Uh-huh. Alice is on like a table in the middle of the room covered with like IV type things, like tubes coming out of all parts of her. She wakes up screaming. She was supposed to be naked in this scene too, I read, but they put her in like a funny little, it's almost fifth element to you know, her little fifth element wraps. It's like a square of paper on either, or rectangle of paper on either side that are like connected with those little like clippies. Kind of like an A-frame suit. She's like essentially wearing an A-frame. She wakes up screaming. She pulls out all, this part is pretty nasty. She's pulling out all of the needles that are in her and it looks really painful. She's like screaming at the two-way mirror like, let me out, let me out. We see now on the other side of the mirror, nobody's there. It's empty and it's kind of pulling back and everything is empty. Oh no. And she is able to open the door and she is looking around confused what the fuck is going on. She makes her way, she like finds a gun, makes her way out of the building into the heart of Raccoon City, which is just absolutely apocalyptic. No living people in sight, cars upturned, crashes, everything like smoking, fires, clearly something very bad has happened here. A newspaper drifts by, top headline, the dead walk. And she grabs her gun and kind of loads it, does like a ready to fight. Marilyn Manson is absolutely blasting and that's the end of the movie. Wow. They were ready for more. Yeah. And they've delivered more. Yeah, I'm honestly, I'm pretty curious. I think it's, I think it'll be fun going into Zach Kregger's version because I think he will do something like completely different. But it's fun knowing like the lore and I love Mila. Love, I love her love story. Love her love story. I love to know that she was just like working with her husband and love of her life on these movies. Who like took all of the gratuitous unnecessary nudity out for her. Yeah. We love that. Oh yeah. You know, hopefully Marilyn Manson wasn't. Paid a paid a bunch. Yeah. Yeah. But I had fun and I also had fun. And I think that we should return to this franchise again someday. Obviously we'll be doing Kreggers, but maybe we'll fit another one or two of these in the meantime. I'll be down. I actually have no idea how many there are, but I feel like there's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. So stay tuned. We'll see what Alice gets up to. And I feel like the next one is going to be all in Raccoon City. And so I maybe we'll find out more about why it's called that. I can't wait to find out why it's called that. Why did you say it? Raccoon City. Resident Evil 2 Raccoon City. Don't know why they didn't put that in the title. I feel like I would have gone and seen it. I would have been like what's going on with Resident Evil 2 Raccoon City. Using that as a marketing. I think that should have been a bigger focus. Anywho. Oh, I love you Emily. I love you so much. Oh, I love you so much. And we love you listeners. And we hope you enjoyed this one. We really hope you did. And I shall do a little. 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