24 Years Ago Today, This Video Game Adaptation Started a 7-Movie Franchise That’ll Finally Get a Great Film in 2026

The first Resident Evil movie came out on March 15, 2002, and it was a decent horror film, even though it didn’t really follow the story of the video game – it just shared some of the same creatures. While it started as a pretty good, scary movie, the series quickly became much more exaggerated. Sometimes the sequels would reference the game, but other times they strayed far from the source material.








