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‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’ – Makeup Effects Artists Share Creature Concept Designs Including Mr. X and More [Images]
Now available at home, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City isn’t exactly a home run but it’s a movie that does at least live up to its promise, rebooting the movie franchise into something that feels a whole lot more like the original games. And that means horror is at the forefront of the movie, which is loaded with video game creatures and bloody gore.
You can rent Welcome to Raccoon City for $19.99 through your favorite VOD platform now, and this week we’ve got some behind the scenes creature concepts from Applied Arts FX Studio.
The team writes on Instagram (@aafxstudio), “Resident Evil – lots of concept stuff that was in the works at various times for an earlier version of the script, and some alternative ideas.”
The caption for the series of photos you’ll find below continues, “Hardly touches on the design work @damalto did with us on the show over several months last year.”
These concept designs show off alternate looks for characters who appeared in the movie, including Lisa Trevor, as well as monsters that ultimately did not. Is that Mr. X we see?!
You’ll also find an alternate design for the original game’s iconic “turn-around zombie” below…
Meagan wrote in her review of Welcome to Raccoon City, “Johannes Roberts succeeds in creating a far more faithful, horror-driven Resident Evil movie. This adaptation makes strange choices with its characters and can be rough around the edges, but it offers a compelling lead and succeeds in suspense-filled sequences. Roberts keeps things moving briskly.”
Recently, Kaya Scodelario and Johannes Roberts stopped by to share some anecdotes with our very own flagship podcast series, The Boo Crew. You can stream the full interview below.
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Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform was a massive hit for Netflix back in 2020, becoming one of the most watched original movies in the streaming service’s history.
Coming soon? The Platform 2! Netflix has shared two first look images from the upcoming sequel this morning, which will again be directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia.
Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian star in The Platform 2.
Netflix previews, “A mysterious figure has managed to establish a new law in The Platform, but can justice truly be enforced in hell? And who will enforce it?”
No word yet on a Netflix premiere date for The Platform 2. Stay tuned.
The first film is set inside a vertical prison system, where inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Inmates on high floors eat better than those below, and one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough.
Rafael reviewed The Platform for us at TIFF, raving in his 4.5-star write-up: “The Platform takes full advantage of its isolated setting and small cast to instead focus on a high concept, a tight script, and sharp dialogue that will make you laugh as often as it will make you think. This is a funny, heartfelt, at times disgusting, yet also thought-provoking sci-fi thriller that reminds of Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, but with way better food.”
The Platform also made Daniel Kurland’s Best International Horror Films of 2020 list.
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