8 Horror Movies With Surprising Deeper Meanings

8. Resident Evil Is Filled With Alice In Wonderland Symbolism

Resident Evil is a fun, turn-off-your-brain horror movie. It is primarily remembered for Milla Jovovich ninja kicking zombies and looking stellar while doing it, but there is also some deeper symbolism going on.

Director Paul W.S. Anderson told Fangoria magazine way back when we all unironically liked Sum 41, “It struck me that the fundamental idea of girl in a dress goes into a hole in the ground is exactly what both Alice in Wonderland and Resident Evil is.”

This connection to Alice in Wonderland is found all throughout Resident Evil. For example, the T-Virus being tested on white rabbits, the Umbrella Corporation's commandos constantly worrying about time and the Alices of both stories go through a looking glass. Though we concede, the looking glass in Alice in Wonderland does not have death lasers like the one in Resident Evil.

There is also the aptly named AI baddie, The Red Queen. Like her Alice in Wonderland counterpart, the Red Queen causes many decapitations and even demands our protagonist does some decapitating of her own as her friend is turning into a zombie.

Off with their heads!