The Umbrella Corporation has become quite handy at surviving the apocalypse, so picking fights with them probably isn’t the smartest thing to do. But Alice doesn’t tend to make easy or smart decisions. And, given enough time, you’ll find that zombies aren’t even the biggest issue anymore.
2002’s Resident Evil is officially on Netflix in the wake of the newest outing hitting theaters, in the form of Resident Evil: Afterlife, which joined the service in the United States on September 1 alongside Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Retribution, so you’ve got plenty of Umbrella Corporation activity to get through the weekend.
Zach Cregger’s (Weapons) brand-new Resident Evil reboot opened in theaters on September 18, bringing Capcom’s survival-horror franchise back to the big screen, so Netflix has become a pretty convenient place to revisit the previous movie era while the new incarnation starts from scratch. Afterlife finds Alice (Milla Jovovich) still hunting the Umbrella Corporation in a world thoroughly overrun by the T-virus. Her search for other survivors — including Landman‘s Ali Larter and Prison Break‘s Wentworth Miller — eventually takes her to Los Angeles and a supposedly safe haven known as Arcadia. Ha! As if anywhere is safe.
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The cast also features Shawn Roberts (Edge of Darkness) as Albert Wesker, Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy) as Bennett, Boris Kodjoe (Station 19) as Luther West, Spencer Locke (Insidious: The Last Key) as K-Mart, and Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Rambo: Last Blood) as Angel Ortiz.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
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🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
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You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
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The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
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You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
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Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
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The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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Is ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ Worth Watching?
Resident Evil: Afterlife currently sits at just 21% on Rotten Tomatoes from 107 reviews, with its audience score faring somewhat better at 48%. The consensus is fairly damning too, saying that the whole thing was unnecessary and that it was already leaning much further into action spectacle than straightforward survival horror. Audiences still turned up, though.Afterlife earned $60.1 million domestically, and that number has suddenly become relevant again for an interesting reason: Until this weekend, it represented the franchise’s biggest North American haul. Cregger’s new Resident Evil has just opened to $60 million and is expected to pass Afterlife almost immediately, finally threatening a record the Jovovich movie has held for 16 years.
Resident Evil: Afterlife is streaming now on Netflix in the United States.
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