Movie Substrate · Film
Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7 · 6,878 ratings on TMDB
A secret experiment. A deadly virus. A fatal mistake.
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
DirectorPaul W. S. Anderson
The emergence reading
Resident Evil keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E4/E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6zombificationinfection by the T-virus reanimates dead bodies as mindless, aggressive zombies (biology · local)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Shin Godzilla (2016)E10/E12 · Action, Horror
Species III (2005)E6/E10 · Action, Horror
Colony (2026)E9/E10 · Action, Horror
Restart the Earth (2021)E10/E14 · Action, Horror
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)E9/E12 · Action, Horror
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · Action, HorrorAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Elysium (2013)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Train to Busan (2016)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Shaun of the Dead (2004)alters at E6 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
