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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) is an action horror film written and directed by Johannes Roberts. Based on the first and second games by Capcom, it serves as a reboot of the popular Resident Evil film series, marking the seventh live-action adaptation of the iconic video game franchise. In the 1980s, siblings Claire Redfield and Chris reside at Raccoon City Orphanage. There, Claire befriends Lisa Trevor, an unfortunate victim of Dr. William Birkin’s twisted experiments. As an employee of Umbrella Corporation, Birkin oversees the orphanage and conducts his own unethical research using the ...

The 2019 American horror anthology streaming television series, Creepshow (2019–2024), serves as a continuation of the 1982 film of the same name. It features seventeen episodes, each containing two horror stories. Scholastic Books released a companion book entitled Creepshow: The Taker, with two novellas written by Elley Cooper inspired by the TV series. A second installment, titled Creepshow: The Cursed and also written by Cooper, was released on April 28, 2021. Critics have praised the series, with an average rating of 7.7/10 based on 29 reviews on ...

Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019) is an animated mystery film from Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Serving as the thirty-third installment in the direct-to-video series, it is a sequel to the first Scooby-Doo direct-to-video movie, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, released in 1998. In this adventure, the gang works together to catch various monsters, including Young Man Withers, who turns out to be a member of the Withers family. After a wild dream sequence involving the Mystery Machine going backwards, Fred discovers that he has sold their van and retired from mystery solving. However, after seeing a news report and ...

DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock (2019) is an action-packed animated short featuring the iconic war hero, directed by Bruce Timm and written by Louise Simonson, Walter Simonson, and Tim Sheridan. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment, it was originally released alongside Batman: Hush. After waking from a coma following a devastating battle, Sgt. Rock is given a mission by Lt. Matthew Shrieve to capture a female German Nazi scientist, with the assistance of a ...

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) is an action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The story centers around Dr. James Marcus, founder of the Umbrella Corporation, who used an untested embryonic project called the T-virus to try to save his daughter Alicia from progeria. However, after one child treated with the virus turns into a zombie, Marcus orders the project shut down and all data destroyed. This deeply affects his colleague Dr. Charles Ashford, who needed the T-virus to save his own daughter Angela. Later on, Alice wakes up in the ruined White House after being betrayed by Albert Wesker, ...

In 2016, a computer-animated comedy mystery film titled Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood (2016) was released. This movie marks the twenty-sixth installment in the direct-to-video series of Scooby-Doo films and is the first to feature the Scooby-Doo brand in Lego form. As they attempt to unravel the case of a sea creature haunting a lighthouse, Shaggy expresses frustration to Scooby about his friends always convincing them to be bait for monsters with tempting Scooby Snacks. Fed up, Shaggy and Scooby vow to never eat another Scooby Snack again. After successfully solving the mystery, the gang celebrates with a trip to a local malt shop where Shaggy ...

Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023), an American post-apocalyptic horror drama series by creators Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson for AMC, serves as a spin-off of The Walking Dead. The show follows the initial stages of the zombie outbreak in the West coast, coinciding with Rick’s coma in Atlanta. Unlike its predecessor, Fear highlights the strain already present in the South while only emerging in California. Taking place in the same universe as The Walking Dead, this gritty drama delves into the early days of the undead apocalypse through the eyes of a ...

Z Nation (2014–2018), an American horror TV series on Syfy, created by Karl Schaefer and Craig Engler and produced by The Asylum, takes place three years into a zombie apocalypse. The outbreak, caused by a deadly virus that has wiped out most of humanity, has left Alvin Bernard Murphy as the only known survivor of a zombie bite. Prior to society’s collapse, Murphy was one of three inmates at Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery, Maine who were part of a government-approved experiment. Each inmate received a different test vaccine and only Murphy successfully survived ...

World War Z (2013) is a gripping American film directed by Marc Forster. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks and was written by Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski. The story follows Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator, as he navigates through a world overrun by zombies with his wife Karin and two daughters, Rachel and Connie. One particular moment that stands out to Gerry during this chaos is how quickly someone can turn into an infected ...

In the action horror film Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, Alice and her fellow survivors aboard the Umbrella Corporation freighter Arcadia face an attack from a fleet of Umbrella gunships, led by Alice’s brainwashed former ally, Jill Valentine. In the chaos, Alice is captured while an Alice clone wakes up in the suburbs with her husband Todd and deaf daughter Becky. The peaceful neighborhood is soon revealed to be Raccoon City during the initial zombie outbreak. As they try to escape in a truck driven by Rain Ocampo, who is later knocked unconscious, Alice hides ...

ParaNorman (2012) is a stop-motion animated film from directors Sam Fell and Chris Butler, who also wrote the screenplay. The story takes place in Blithe Hollow, Massachusetts and follows 11-year-old Norman Babcock. Despite his ability to communicate with the dead, including his late grandmother and other ghosts in town, Norman is ostracized by his family and peers at school. However, he finds a friend in Neil Downe, who shares his experiences of being bullied. During rehearsals for a school play about the town’s witch trials, Norman and Neil are visited by Mr. ...

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), an action horror film written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, is the second installment in the series to be helmed by Anderson. Alice and her clones launch an attack on Umbrella HQ in Tokyo, wiping out all members except for Albert Wesker who manages to escape in a tiltrotor plane. He sets off a bomb that creates a massive sinkhole, as the real Alice, who had already boarded the plane, attempts to eliminate him. However, he injects her with an anti-virus that strips her of her superhuman abilities. It is then revealed that Wesker has ...

The Walking Dead (2010–2022), an American post-apocalyptic horror drama show, is the source material for the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. This show and its corresponding comics make up the foundation of The Walking Dead franchise. The plot revolves around a diverse group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies, also known as ‘walkers’. As society has crumbled, these survivors must also contend with other groups who have established their own ...

The horror flick The Crazies (2010), directed by Breck Eisner and penned by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright, takes place in Ogden Marsh, Iowa. During a local baseball game, resident Rory causes a disturbance by appearing on the field with a shotgun. Sheriff David Dutton tries to reason with him but is ultimately forced to take lethal action. Meanwhile, Judy (David’s wife), who serves as the town doctor, notices strange changes in another resident named Bill. His behavior includes repetitive speech and a vacant expression. ...

Carriers (2009) is a post-apocalyptic American film written and directed by the Pastor brothers. The world has been devastated by an extremely contagious virus, known as “The World Ender Virus”, causing widespread deaths. In order to seek refuge, Brian, his girlfriend Bobby, his brother Danny, and Danny’s friend Kate plan to make their way to Turtle Beach, Texas – a place they used to visit in their childhood. To increase their chances of survival, they adhere to a set of rules devised by Brian. On their journey, they encounter Frank and his infected daughter Jodie who are stranded with an empty ...

Survival of the Dead (2009), a horror film, marks the sixth installment in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead series and was his final work before passing away in 2017. The opening introduces National Guard Sergeant ‘Nicotine’ Crockett and his comrades Kenny, Francisco, and Tomboy, who desert their posts to rob the protagonists from the previous film. At the same time, Plum Island off the shore of Delaware is home to two rival Irish families – the O’Flynns and Muldoons. Led by Patrick O’Flynn, the O’Flynns gather a group to eliminate the undead on the island. ...

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) is an action horror film directed by Russell Mulcahy and written by Paul W. S. Anderson. In the movie, a cloned Alice awakens in a mansion and navigates her way through its corridors, being forced to escape multiple security traps along the way. However, she ultimately meets her demise when she sets off a bounding mine hidden on the floor. Her body is then disposed of into a pit filled with numerous other Alice clones, who serve as failed experiments for Umbrella Corporation’s Project Alice. Fast forward five years from ...

I Am Legend (2007) is an American post-apocalyptic action thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich. The film depicts a world in which a measles virus, intended to cure cancer, instead becomes lethal and spreads rapidly, infecting 99% of the population and turning them into vampiric, albino, cannibalistic mutants known as Darkseekers. These creatures are vulnerable to sunlight and prey on the small number of people who are naturally immune. Three years have passed since ...

28 Weeks Later (2007), a post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, follows the story of Don and his wife Alice, along with four other survivors, as they take refuge in a cottage on the outskirts of London during the initial outbreak of the Rage Virus. However, their safety is short-lived when they hear a terrified boy pounding at their door and Don makes the decision to let him in. Unfortunately, this leads to the infected following the boy to their location. Despite Don’s attempt to convince Alice to leave the boy behind, she refuses and he ultimately abandons them, escaping on a boat ...

George A. Romero wrote and directed Diary of the Dead (2007), a found footage horror film. The movie follows a news crew as they capture an immigrant man killing his wife and son before taking his own life. The wife and son then turn into zombies, attacking and killing medical personnel and police officers, leaving only a medic and a reporter bitten before being killed themselves. Debra, the narrator, explains that most of the disturbing footage recorded by the cameraman was never aired. Meanwhile, in a different setting, students from the University of Pittsburgh’s film studies program, led by their faculty ...