All Animated Resident Evil Movies In Order

Despite the fact that most games in the series stand alone, Resident Evil has maintained a strong sense of continuity and chronology since the PlayStation original. The average fan isn’t here for the story, but the fact of the matter is that Resident Evil is a decades-long franchise that stretches across multiple different mediums: from video games to books and even movies.

Unlike the live-action movies, which are loose adaptations of the main games, Resident Evil’s animated films are firmly canon and often star Leon. Whether they’re any good is another matter entirely, but Resident Evil’s animated movies offer interesting insight into the franchise’s world that can’t be gleaned from just the games alone.

Updated on April 5, 2026, by Axel Bosso: There hasn’t been a new animated CG Resident Evil movie since 2023’s Death Island, though with the success of Resident Evil Requiem, we think that might change soon. However, we have decided to add a special entry highlighting the movies made by fans.

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Biohazard 4D-Executer (2000)

Before Resident Evil: Degeneration, there was one of the first animated entries into the Resident Evil universe in 2000. It’s a short 19-minute animated feature called Biohazard 4D-Executer, with new characters outside the canon who go into Raccoon City on a search and rescue mission to recover Umbrella scientist Dr. Cameron.

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Their search leads them to a warehouse where a T-Virus creature has the parasitic ability to attach its parts to other organisms and mimic their biology, almost like John Carpenter’s The Thing. There’s a cool first-person POV shot of a cockroach and some amazing animations and visuals for its time. And if you miss the series’ traditional pure terror and survival horror roots, this is a good one to check out.

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Biohazard 4: Incubate (2006)

Although the title sounds fancy and like it’s a brand-new entry in the animated catalog of Resident Evil films, Biohazard 4: Incubate is merely one of the earliest official “video game movies” ever made. It cuts together certain cutscene sections and partial gameplay from Resident Evil 4 to make a complete 90-minute-long animation movie.

This was made to summarize the events of the original Resident Evil 4 game in a movie-type way and could serve as a good refresher before heading into the 2023 remake. The levels and cutscenes flow really well, and there are some excellent camera angles used for the gameplay sections.

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Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)

The first full-length feature animated movie in the series, Resident Evil: Degeneration, was released in 2008 and is set one year after the events of Resident Evil 4. Notably, Degeneration establishes Tricell as an in-world presence before Resident Evil 5, offering some context into Chris’ future plight in Africa. And there’s definitely a charm to seeing Leon and Claire together on-screen for the first time since the original Resident Evil 2.

Degeneration is the most grounded of the animated movies, albeit Leon still gets so much action that any tension stemming from the zombie outbreak all but vanishes before the halfway point. Not helping matters is how poorly the animation has held up, with character models simply not fit for human emotion. If nothing else, the references to Resident Evil 2 and 4 are enough to keep longtime fans engaged.

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Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)

Taking place between the events of Resident Evil 5 and 6 while (slightly) setting up Leon’s campaign in the latter, Resident Evil: Damnation was released in 2012 and is marginally better than Degeneration. With a few years of technological improvements on hand, Damnation doesn’t suffer from the same stiff character movements and expressions that plagued Degeneration.

The action is far more engaging to watch, and Damnation also manages to juggle a stronger cast, trading Claire for Ada and throwing Leon up against a host of new characters. It also features references to Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 4, and Resident Evil 5 that help flesh out their respective stories, and it’s an entertaining movie that uses its setting and virus enemies well.

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Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017)

Released in 2017, Resident Evil: Vendetta is set between the events of Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil 7. While often referred to as a prequel to Resident Evil 7, the movie arguably features the least amount of build-up for its subsequent game. Along with bringing back Leon, Vendetta marks Chris Redfield’s debut appearance in the movies and Rebecca Chambers’ first appearance since Resident Evil 0, period.

Arguably, the movie’s greatest strength is having proper character arcs for its leads, and the interactions between Leon and Chris make Vendetta worth watching. Vendetta leans into where the animated movies shine the most: action, with its animations being some of the best yet.

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Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness (2021)

Set between the events of Resident Evil 4 and 5, the episodic Infinite Darkness explores Leon’s time working as a government agent along with following up on what Claire has been up to since Code Veronica/Degeneration. The Netflix series received quite a bit of pre-release hype, in large part due to Leon and Claire’s remake actors reprising their roles, and the very premise for Infinite Darkness feels like a retread of Degeneration.

Infinite Darkness falls victim to the same problems and disappointments as the other Resident Evil films, if not even worse for the established character relationships. The miniseries notably ends with Leon and Claire parting ways on bad terms, killing their dynamic entirely. To make matters worse, Claire barely feels like a member of the supporting cast in Infinite Darkness, let alone the main character.

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Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)

Resident Evil: Death Island takes place one year after the events of Vendetta and still doesn’t fill in the blanks to the seventh game – Biohazard.

You have plenty of references and callbacks to previous installments like Resident Evil 2, 4, and 5. Jill Valentine is still reflecting on being under the control of Wesker, Dr. Taylor invokes the Harvardville Airport incident from Degeneration, Leon clears the aquatic Lickers in the sewers by shooting a gasoline canister to blow them up like the alligator boss in RE 2 and has a knife fight with Jill similar to the one with Krauser, and the team is slowly turning from the new virus form.

The main villain is Dylan Blake, still somehow one of the most chaotic and chilling antagonists, with his constant tendency to put a gun to his head with one bullet in the chamber and play solo Russian Roulette. However, his motivations don’t make any sense and ruin what would’ve been a compelling character.

Other than that and some cringe writing for the characters, especially Chris’ dialogue and Leon saying things like “U.S. of A,” or Jill keeping count of Lickers, there were many great moments between the cast, the best being when Chris and Leon confidently proclaim in unison: “We got Jill” as an affirmation that everything will be alright.

The pacing of the action scenes felt just right, and they were choreographed well with seamless animations (particularly the cell block sequence and the fight between Leon and Maria Gomez in the lab).

Overall, Death Island is Resident Evil’s most memorable and entertaining film media in a long time, astronomically better than Infinite Darkness, Welcome to Raccoon City, or the 2022 live-action show. Dylan’s boss form also proved immensely gigantic, fusing with a zombie shark to become something akin to Lady Dimitrescu’s mutation from RE Village with feet the size of an elephant’s.

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Bonus Track: Fan-Made CGI Films RE: FRACTIONS

As we wait for an official continuation of Death Island, we decided to dive deep into what fans have been doing with the franchise. Apart from the myriad live-action fan films and the short films retelling the events of the games in UE4 and UE5, there’s the YouTube channel RE:Animation, created by Ratlabs.

In this channel, you can find the film series RE:FRACTIONS, which explores gaps and events that we don’t know about from the main series. For example, the channel’s first film, Submission, shows how Wesker took control of Jill Valentine and explains her presence in Resident Evil 5.

The second film is Winter Roses, and it explores the bullying that Rose suffered in school, how she grew up with it, and everything that happened in her family. On the other hand, Choices We Make shows an interpretation of the past between Leon S. Kennedy and Jack Krauser.

The films use the original models from the games they are based on, and each character has new voice actors. The dialogues are fine most of the time, and the animation is impressive for a fan project. It won’t have the budget or the scale of the other films on this list, but it will scratch your itch for new CGI films for a bit.

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