The fourth movie in the Resident Evil science-fiction horror franchise, Resident Evil: Afterlife, was the first film from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to come out on Blu-ray 3D the same day as DVD and Blu-ray. The movie arrives on DVD ($28.95), Blu-ray ($34.95) and Blu-ray 3D ($39.95) on Dec. 28, 2010, in time for the spending of Christmas gift cards.
In the movie, which grossed $60 million in theaters, Milla Jovovich (The Fourth Kind) reprises her role as Alice, who continues her mission to find survivors of a virus infection that has ravaged the world, turning its victims into the undead. Jovovich is joined in her battle with an old friend, and they travel to Los Angeles looking for a safe haven. Heroes‘ Ali Larter also stars, and Afterlife is directed and written by Paul W. S. Anderson, who also wrote the original Resident Evil as well as sequels Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction and directed the original film.
The Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D are packed with these special features:
- PS3 wallpaper theme
- Undead Vision: Picture-in-Picture
- Sony’s MovieIQ BD-Live feature with trivia about the film
- filmmaker commentary
- deleted and extended scenes
- outtakes
- and featurettes
- “Back Under the Umbrella: Directing Afterlife“
- “Band of Survivors: Casting Afterlife“
- “Undead Dimension: Resident Evil in 3D”
- “Fighting Back: The Action of Afterlife“
- “Vision of the Apocalypse: The Design of Afterlife“
- “New Blood: The Undead of Afterlife“
- and “Pwning the Undead: Gamers of the Afterlife“
The DVD contains only three special features:
- filmmaker commentary
- “Band of Survivors: Casting Afterlife“
- and “Fighting Back: The Action of Afterlife.”
Here’s the movie’s trailer:
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Milla Jovovich, Carrie Ann Moss and Uma Thurman – they get my vote for best modern female action stars. Now how do we get them into one movie?