Synopsis:

This edit combines Resident Evil Apocalypse and Extinction into a single movie experience that is tighter, more focused and enjoyable than it’s parent movies.

Intentions:

I seem to be developing a soft spot for video game films. At any rate, editing the Resident Evil films has been something I’ve been doing on and off for a while, and so I decided with the new one coming out in September to finally hammer out an “Aztek definitive version” so to speak.

Change List:

ADDED: Music from the end of Resident Evil over the credits, includes voiceover about reopening the Hive. MOVED: “My name is Alice” opening until after the Hive is open. CUT: “Sir?” during the Hive opening. Monster roars, men become lunch. CUT: A few lines of redundant dialogue near the end of “My name is Alice.” NEW TITLE: Biohazard: A Resident Evil Fanedit. CUT: Angela waking up in the car after the crash. CUT/ADDED: Used the extended version of Alice waking up in the lab from the end of Resident Evil. However, no one is seen walking past the window. Reframed. CUT: Woman running up the stairwell being chased by zombies until Carlos sees her on the roof. CUT: Bad slow motion montage of zombies running through the streets. TRIMMED: Exchange betweem Cain and Ashford about getting scientists out of the hot zone. CUT: The priest feeding his sister. MOVED: Nemesis program being activated to where the priest scene was. CUT: “GTA motherfucker!” CUT: “Licker vision” from all church scenes. CUT: Licker knocking over holy water. CUT: Repeat shots of Alice with her guns. CUT: To Carlos right after Alice kills the last Licker. CUT: Zombies popping out of ground in the graveyard. Anyone who knows anything about burials should know that this is impossible. CUT: “Look at the big motherfucker’s got a rocket launcher!” CUT: References to graveyard fight as Alice and co are walking. CUT: Straight to bus after Alice says “who is this?” CUT: Jill asking what yield the nuke is. Who cares? It’s big and it makes things go boom. CUT: Peyton saying “There’s no way! It’d be all over the fucking news.” CUT: Alice breaking her fingers in the garbage chute. CUT: Alice FIXING her non-broken fingers ;) CUT: Peyton returning from the dead. CUT: “And we’ve just been expended.” CUT: Terri freaking out about splitting up and LJ offering to go with her. Jill takes charge! CUT: After Carlos asks “Did you get the call as well?” to Terri. CUT: Terri tripping in the class room. CUT: Jill talking to Angie about her name. CUT: “From now on stay right beside me.” Jill runs off a minute later. TRIMMED: Nicholai’s introduction. CHANGE: Jill’s matchbook, as uncanny as it is, does in fact make the kitchen go boom. CUT: Jill asking if Alice and Angie “know eachother/” CUT: Alice saying “T-Virus” during the flashback. CUT: “What do you mean?” after Jill asks Carlos how many of “you guys” are there. CUT: “You should told me you got bit I’m haning wit you an’ shit.” CUT: Cain’s “Did you really think I didn’t know?” CUT: LJ kicking the dead guards. CUT: Cain shoots Ashford immediately after Alice refuses to fight Nemesis. TRIMMED: A few shots during the Nemesis fight. TRIMMED: Cain’s “join me!” speech. CUT: “If you expect me to beg, I will not!” BIG CHANGE: It turns out Cain’s gun had one more bullet left. Not exactly the poetic justice of the original scene, but c’est la vie. CUT: Alice trying to stop Angie from using the anti-virus. CUT: Post crash scene. Goes straight to news reports after helicopter crash. TRIMMED: Alice’s voice over. CUT: Alice from the start of Extinction until she shows up during the crow attack. CUT: “You gotta be shittin’ me.” TRIMMED: Boardroom scene. ADDED: Shot of Alice clone being carried to ditch. REMIXED: Music during the approach to the motel. CUT: LJ’s plan for staying in the motel. CUT: “Who’s out there?” ADDED: Deleted scenes: Carlos talking to Calire after he returns, LJ on what he did before the apocalypse, Carlos talking to Mikey. CUT: Claire looking for cigarettes. CHANGED: When Isaac’s activates number 87, it cuts to the shower scene from the first film or, what was the very first scene of Extinction. Used these clips at a few different points until Slater sees the super-zed killing the clone. CUT: “What’s going on?” CUT: “Lock and load.” NOTE: Alice is back! CUT: Isaacs passive-aggressivly threatening Slater. ADDED: Post helicopter crash/lab scene from Apocalypse when Carlos asks Alice what happened to her. TRIMMED: Alice’s rampage, tried to make it appear as if she stabbed the scientist with the pen. Works, doesn’t work…your call. EXTENDED: Alice/Claire scene, using a deleted scene. CUT: “Maybe that’s exactly what they need” (a pipe dream). TRIMMED: Issacs adding “That’s an order” to his false orders from Wesker. Arrogant prick. CUT: Long pause between crate opening and super-zeds running out. REARRANGED: Vegas scene. Even though we see Umbrella moving into the area, we don’t see Isaacs until AFTER he shuts Alice down. Cuts/trims as needed. CUT: To the lab after Alice says they aren’t driving to Alaska. CUT: “I sentence you to summary liquidation.” Order from Wesker BANG! CUT: Carlos’s “When you get down there…” ADDED: Shots of the clone ditch that was originally at the start of Extinction to when Alice sees all the dead clones. CUT: The White Queen wishing Alice luck. CUT: Tyrant Isaacs running past the camera in the lab. CUT: Isaacs no longer speaks during his fight with Alice. None of this “I am the future!” stuff. Arrogant prick. CUT: Clone waking up. Now her living is a total surprise. CUT: The long intro to Tokyo. CHANGED: Music at the end during the big reveal of the clones to music from Resident Evil 1. NEW: Credits sequence. ADDED: A little surprise at the end of the credits.

Additional Notes:

By cutting a lot of bad dialogue, useless jump scares, and shifting a few scenes around, the aim was to create a more focused, and also more exciting action experience.

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