Resident Evil Movies In Order: Everything You Need To Know

The Resident Evil Film Series directly adapts the video game franchise of the same name. Video Game movies have had a lot of slack for adapting poorly and so a franchise of films this large is pretty impressive. The film series includes 6 films plus one reboot film that came out as recently as 2021. Find out a little about all the Resident Evil Movies In Order here!

Resident Evil Movies In Order

Resident Evil (2002)

A team of commandos, led by Alice (Milla Jovovich), investigates the Hive, an underground facility owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A deadly virus called the T-virus has escaped, turning humans into zombies and unleashing mutated creatures. As they navigate through the facility, the team faces traps, zombie hordes, and the homicidal artificial intelligence known as the Red Queen. They must find a way to survive, escape, and expose Umbrella’s dangerous experiments.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Raccoon City is overrun by the T-virus, turning the population into flesh-eating zombies. Alice, now enhanced with superhuman abilities, joins forces with other survivors, including Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), to escape the city before it is destroyed by a nuclear strike. They encounter new threats, such as the powerful Nemesis creature, while Umbrella continues its attempts to contain the outbreak.

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

Alice, now wandering the post-apocalyptic wastelands, joins a convoy of survivors seeking refuge from the T-virus. They traverse the Nevada desert, facing hordes of undead and confronting new dangers, including infected crows and the mutated Dr Isaacs (Iain Glen). Alice discovers her own clone and confronts the Umbrella Corporation’s plans to create a new world order.

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

Alice, seeking other survivors, arrives in Los Angeles, which has become a stronghold against the undead. She teams up with Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) and a group of survivors as they face the new threat of superhuman zombies. Alice learns that Umbrella’s leader, Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts), plans to use her for his own purposes. The group fights their way through hordes of monsters and a battle in a heavily fortified Umbrella facility.

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

Alice wakes up in an underwater facility controlled by Umbrella, which has created a simulated world filled with deadly environments and resurrected allies as part of their experimentation. Alice, aided by resistance fighters, must navigate through these simulations, battling hordes of clones and other creatures, while uncovering the truth about her past and the full extent of Umbrella’s plans.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

Alice returns to Raccoon City, where it all began, to stop Umbrella’s final plan to wipe out the remaining survivors. She reunites with allies and faces old enemies, including Albert Wesker and the monstrous Tyrant. Alice must venture into the Hive once again, discovering shocking revelations about her own origin and finding the means to end Umbrella’s reign of terror once and for all.

Reboot

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

Claire Redfield befriends Lisa Trevor at an orphanage. Years later, Claire returns to Raccoon City, where she encounters strange events and warns her brother Chris about Umbrella Corporation’s experiments. Claire teams up with Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie police officer, as they face zombies and mutated creatures. They discover a secret lab, confront Dr Birkin and Wesker, and escape on a train. Raccoon City is destroyed, and survivors, including Claire, Chris, Jill, Leon, and Sherry, leave the city.