The sleeping beast awakens, horror is finally back

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2002)

With all the recent crap cakes that hollywood has tricked people into thinking is "horror" or even more disturbing: letting people forget what decent horror films are about entirely, giving the impression that films like "Scream" are actually half decent, let alone watchable at all, comes a breath of fresh air. Resident Evil shows us what we have almost come to forget: old school horror with a stylish flair enough to separate it from the 80's horror films it selectively borrows from. I am not going to sit around and complain it wasn't gory enough, although there definately could have been more gore involved. I will say that it is definately a step in the right direction. Hopefully, if this film does well, we can hope to see more bold attempts at anything with the slightest backbone other than crappy 90210 mock slasher films, that do nothing but slowly kill the horror genre while it sleeps. Hopefully on that note, this would be more the awakening of a sleeping giant. Something that was missing in our cineplexes like it was in our minds.. something that didn't have a guaranteed appeal and took chances at reconnecting its audience with the main artery of why people go to see a horror film, albeit one based on a video game.