Resident Evil
“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.
How Resident Evil compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Resident Evil, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 6
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 25%
- Share of the series audience
Resident Evil (2002) is the highest-rated of the 6 rated films in the Resident Evil series, at 6.7/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.2/10.
It is the film that started the series, 15 years before the most recent entry, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016).
Its 7,334 TMDB ratings are 25% of the 29,877 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Resident Evil, comparing all 6 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
Resident Evil
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