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Resident Evil, (a.k.a. Resident Evil 1, Resident Evil: Ground Zero, and Resident Evil: Genesis) is based upon the Resident Evil survival horror series. The movie is an American movie shot mostly in Germany and it was followed by one sequel, with more to come.

Tagline: A secret experiment. A deadly virus. A fatal mistake.

Plot overview

The Spencer Mansion is one of many entry points into the underground laboratory known as The Hive. The mansion was built by The Umbrella Corporation in the early 60's to house security operatives. The mansion is named after Spence (one of the security operatives). Like the mansion in Resident Evil, the house has in built hidden passages and mechanisms. The reason for construction of the mansion was to create an alternative route into the Hive.

In this film, the Umbrella Corporation has sent a special operations unit to their biological warfare lab hidden beneath a mansion on the outskirts of Raccoon City to find out why contact has been lost. En route, the team discover Alice and Spence, two Umbrella employees with amnesia, a complex full of zombies and a computer system gone mad.

At a high tech laboratory facility, office staff and researchers are going about their business. In a side laboratory, a unknown individual in a Hazmat suit is placing vials of an unknown chemical into a case. When the individual finishes filling the case, and prepares to leave the lab, taking the case with them. Before leaving, the person throws an extra vial of the chemical to the floor, shattering it. Just after they successfully leave the facility, containment protocol is set in motion by The Hive's Super Computer known as The Red Queen. Researchers in a sealed lab slowly drown, due to the activation of the room's fire sprinklers. In an office section of the facility, the room's airtight doors seal shut and its Halon fire extinguishers activate, suffocating the office occupants. In a stuck elevator people are trying to jam the doors open. Suddenly, they all go quiet and hear people screaming and an elevator crashing in the shaft next to them. A woman tries to squeeze through the hole in the door, but it is too small, she is stuck. Suddenly, the brakes release and the elevator falls. A woman wakes up in a shower, dazed and confused. She walks around the huge mansion, but she cannot remember her name, does not know where she is, or what she is doing here. A helicopter drops a few Umbrella troops and they advance upon the house. They find her and decide to take her along while they go towards The Hive. The mansion, it seems, is the gateway to an underground railroad that leads into the Hive, a research facility located hundreds of feet below the streets of Raccoon City.

The team finds two other men along their journey, one of whom is apparently Alice's husband, and take them with them on the way into the Hive. They find the Hive complex deserted and eventually the team reaches the access point for the Hive computer. But the Hive does not want to be invaded and activates a laser grid protection system that slices about 6 of the team members into little pieces.

After the team inside is dead, the remaining soldiers along with Alice manage to get access to the Hive's central computer room. They are confronted by a hologram dubbed The Red Queen, a manifestation of the Hive's intelligence in the image of the original designer's daughter.

The only way to stop the Hive is to reboot the computer. The Red Queen she says doing so will have very bad consequences. They shut down the computer anyway; all over the complex the lights go out, and all the door locks are released, releasing scores of zombies.

The team learns that the Hive, operated by the world's most powerful company, was designed as a research laboratory for biological weapons including viral weaponry. One strain could reanimate the dead into mindless zombies, or cause mutation in living beings.

The Hive deployed its containment protocol in order to make sure the virus would not escape. An accident resulted in the virus being exposed to the air and distributed throughout the complex via its ventilation system. An environmentalist had wanted to steal information on the Hive and expose it to the public. A guard at the Hive overheard this and had decided to steal some viral weaponry to sell to the highest bidder. He threw one of the vials as he left a research room, the vial broke, and the airborne virus was released. But he became stuck close to the exit when the sealing of the Hive began and the gas knocked him out and removed his memory. The Umbrella team finds the brother of that environmentalist (it is learned that Alice was involved in that scheme while Spence, one of the men found in the Hive, is the corrupt guard) and the whole group tries to escape the facility, pursued by mutated dogs and a humanoid creature called a "licker."

One by one, the remaining team members die or are infected by the virus, which they learn turns people into zombies whether they are alive or dead. Alice finds an antidote for the virus and the last two survivors — one of whom is Alice, the other the brother — get out just before the Hive seals itself for good. However, on the return trip on the train, the licker, transformed into a more powerful form after eating blood, attacks and injures Matt.

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