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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

★ 6.3 · 4,538 ratings on TMDB

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Resident Evil: Extinction poster★ 6.3

Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.

DirectorRussell Mulcahy
CastAli Larter, Ashanti, Christopher Egan, Iain Glen, Jason O'Mara, Linden Ashby
GenresAction, Horror, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Resident Evil: Extinction keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6zombievirus causes infected organisms to become reanimated undead (biology · universal)
Also inFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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