Top Five Things Need For Resident Evil Reboot
4) Arklay Mansion
The mansion appears in Anderson’s movie. But it is nowhere near used as it should have been. Every fan of the games knows that the house is almost a character in itself. Almost as much as the Nostromo is a character itself in Alien. Paul W.S. Anderson was either too stupid to see this, hadn’t played the game or both.
It’s not like removing this feature was ‘improving’ a poor part of the game. It was just ignorance. What is spookier, a creaking old mansion full of zombies and the occasional bio freak, or a CGI schoolgirl throwing a tantrum in some lab? They gotta pull things back in here and make the audience feel uneasy right from the start, merely looking at the house itself. It’s probably best to use a real house too. No fake shit, do it properly.
Set the movie in Arklay Mansion – and keep it there.
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