Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) poster
2008 · animation · horror · action · sci-fi

Resident Evil: Degeneration

Directed by Makoto Kamiya1h 37m2008
ElsewhereIMDb6.434k
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • epic-stakes
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Sombre, breathless, extreme animation / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield must battle a rogue warrior seeking revenge after unleashing the deadly G-Virus, whilst a mutated monster goes on a rampage.

Our read · Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal animation · horror · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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