Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
2021 1h 47m movie Film Japan

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

“Witness the beginning of evil.”

Synopsis

“Witness the beginning of evil.”

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

The 2020–2022 Japan Window

452 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City sits at position #418.

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    ★ 8.8 · 2021

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    ★ 8.8 · 2021

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    #3

    Romantic Killer

    ★ 8.7 · 2022

  4. Police in a Pod
    #4

    Police in a Pod

    ★ 8.7 · 2021

  5. Jujutsu Kaisen
    #5

    Jujutsu Kaisen

    ★ 8.6 · 2020

  6. SPY x FAMILY
    #6

    SPY x FAMILY

    ★ 8.6 · 2022

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    #7

    Chainsaw Man

    ★ 8.6 · 2022

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    #8

    Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

    ★ 8.6 · 2022

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

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The 2020s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year in the 2020s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City premiered. 539 total titles in this decade from Japan.

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Budget & Box Office Efficiency

$25.0M
Budget
$41.9M
Revenue
$16.9M
Net Profit
1.7×
Return Ratio

At a 1h 47m runtime, production spent $234K per minute on screen and earned $392K per minute back.

Reception Benchmarks

6.0
TMDB Rating
2,176
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

Ranked #3,795 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (17th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is -0.9 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.

Among Japan Horror productions specifically: #182 of 391 (top 47%).

Production Details

Primary Country Japan
All Production Countries Canada, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
Original Language En
Production Companies Constantin Film, Davis Films, Screen Gems, CAPCOM, Impact Pictures
Runtime 1h 47m
Release Date November 24, 2021
IMDb tt6920084
Official Site www.residentevil.movie

Themes & Motifs

  • biological weapon
  • orphanage
  • mutant
  • infection
  • zombie
  • mansion
  • police station
  • based on video game
  • reboot
  • ghost town
  • duringcreditsstinger
  • lockdown
  • 1990s
  • secret experiment

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